Sep 262017
If you expected Ancillary++, you’ll be disappointed. Leckie has gone from big to small – the Radch Empire makes only a small appearance. Where the trilogy was big – gender, class, humanity and empire-spanning revenge, Provenance sits on a smaller, more personal scale, digging into what family means.
Ingray is the adopted daughter of an important politician on a minor world. She engages smugglers in one last chance to impress her family – and it goes wrong. She has to forge new alliances to save her small unimportant world. It’s a different style, slower than Radch – with less driving action, but it works.