eBook, 391 pages
English language
Published Oct. 11, 2014 by Orbit.
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.
While the first book had Justice of Torren right in the middle of all the action, this book has her in command of a ship and is much more focused on the political side of her character. I found it slower, but just as entertaining as the first.
It's okay, but it doesn't have the action or the drama of the first book. And I really can't stand tea, so pages and pages of discussion of teasets and courtesy made me feel like I was reading a Jane Austen novel.
