Radiant Star by Ann Leckie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The good: Large cast of characters supporting this fairly standalone tale in the Ancillary universe. It picks up on the consequences of the original trilogy.

More than anything, it shows the true consequences, the tragedies, and specifically, starvation. Religion and politics be damned.


The bad: I was frankly bored in the first half of the novel. The small amounts of intrigue and social injustice was rather just a small portion and the rest just circled religious politics. As for the characters, I felt rather disconnected and just kept praying for something exciting to happen.

It does, later, kinda, but starvation is hard to read about, let alone experience, and it was hard.

Others might get more out of this, but for me? I started imagining that Leckie was going through some hard times and it really shone through the text. I wanted to help her more than I wanted to get through the novel.

Maybe that's just me, but it is what I felt.

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