"Provenance"
Nov. 23rd, 2017 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwaneLast night I finished Ann Leckie's new book Provenance. I enjoyed it! Some thoughts:
* Leckie writes fairy tales -- by which I mean this is a novel about an ugly-duckling princess, justice, and the importance of speaking respectfully to strangers. And a Leckie book is clear in its moral message: treating others like things is wrong, respecting and taking care of others is right, see examples A1-ZZ6.
* The bit where Ingray has a chance to do nothing and let Danach humiliate himself, and considers it, and realizes she has to Do The Right Thing -- I laughed so deeply. Fucking ascended saints. Yes. That goddammit I have to do the right thing and it will be hard and maybe thankless but it's basically the only way I can go character moment.
* I nearly cried at the Geck ambassador's apologies.
* When two characters were arguing about the "real"ness of faked vestiges, I thought, "ah, and here's the crossover with Faking it by Jennifer Crusie!" Which I would read.
* Leckie writes fairy tales -- by which I mean this is a novel about an ugly-duckling princess, justice, and the importance of speaking respectfully to strangers. And a Leckie book is clear in its moral message: treating others like things is wrong, respecting and taking care of others is right, see examples A1-ZZ6.
* The bit where Ingray has a chance to do nothing and let Danach humiliate himself, and considers it, and realizes she has to Do The Right Thing -- I laughed so deeply. Fucking ascended saints. Yes. That goddammit I have to do the right thing and it will be hard and maybe thankless but it's basically the only way I can go character moment.
* I nearly cried at the Geck ambassador's apologies.
* When two characters were arguing about the "real"ness of faked vestiges, I thought, "ah, and here's the crossover with Faking it by Jennifer Crusie!" Which I would read.
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Date: 2017-11-24 04:19 am (UTC)