My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Sci-fi
Content: Clean
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of
the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her
predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely
independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his
death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a
time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial
court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue
herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all
while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in
intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that
might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it
from annihilation.
This was our book club read for September and I
enjoyed the first half of it more the last half. I tend to like sci-fi
books with mystery elements and the mystery is what really kept me
reading this, but it ended up not keeping my interest throughout the
whole book. Unfortunately, this book was extremely slow and the plot was
bogged down by too much politics. I would recommend reading the
Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh over this one, if you like sci-fi with
lots of political intrigue.
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