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 Ancillary Mercy  (Imperial Radch #3) By Ann Leckie  Published Year: 2015 Page Count : 300 pages  Medium Used: Kindle PW  Genre : Space Opera, Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Ancillaries, Action, Adventure, 2025-read.  Rating : 5/5  Blew my mind. What a story. Anaandar Mianaai,the lord of the sprawling empire of Radch is split in two. She is at war with herself. She has destroyed the ship Justice of Toren and sent the only remaining Ancillary of the ship, Breq, to take control of and govern Athoek Station. This is one half of her which is good and located at Omaaugh Palace. The other half, situated in Tstur Palace and which comes towards the end of the story to fight Breq and take over Athoek Station is also Anaandar Mianaai.  In book 2, we have already seen how Breq takes control over the Athoek station and escapes a bombing attempt that was targeted to kill her. She comes to care for a couple of the station residents more than others. ...

 Ancillary Sword  [Imperial Radch #2] By Ann Leckie  Published Year: 2014 Page Count: 310 pages  Medium Used: Kindle PW  Genre : Space Opera, Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Ancillaries, Action, Adventure, 2025-read.  Rating : 3/5  Having finished this book, I feel incomplete and dissatisfied. I wanted to read more and digest more but the end came abruptly. I feel a void within myself as to why so little of the Radchaai saga is covered in this book. Compared to the first book in the series, this one is a no brainer. This one doesn't involve much in the way of using AI or ancillaries and hasn't got any interesting twists, suspense moments at all. It is insipid and bland to my taste but the writing is good and prose is gripping.  Breq is given second name as Mianaai and sent to protect and take control of an Athoek station. The gates around the station are damaged and they find a Sword of Atagaris ship standing near a ghost gate. In contin...

 Sign of the Unicorn(#3 of The Chronicles of Amber) and  The Hand of Oberon (#4 of The Chronicles of Amber) Published Year : 1975, 1976 Page Count : 320  pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre : Magic, Sorcery, High Fantasy, Multiverse, Shadows, Awesome-Prose, 2025-read.  Rating : 5/5 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 The plot thickened and got better and better as I kept reading. I couldn't put the book down. Its a fantastic read. This is the story where siblings .. brothers and sisters ..  fight among themselves while playing a high stakes game with the end goal being the throne in Amber. The story continues from where it left off in The Guns of Avalon and adds more information to what has happened and also going forward using that knowledge.  There are three places where the family brood of Oberon, the king of Amber, can walk the Pattern to gain control over the shadows. These shadows are like multiple universes with Amber at its center. There is a Pattern in the under...