Reviews and Comments

Provenance is the last book I had to read in the Imperial Radch universe. I almost didn't listen to it until someone told me so, because when I first hit play, it seemed quite unrelated). For the most part, it is unrelated to the main trilogy, though events are alluded to in parallel.

It's a good book, with the worldbuilding charm of the other Imperial Radch books. It's a fun, amusing, and dramatic adventure. I think there are the groundworks for this to be a prison abolition movement, though the book never quite gets there.

Ultimately, I found the twists and turns a little too predictable to be impressed. Characters do what I expect early and later on what I expect them to do, with a level of privilege and immaturity I don't have sympathy for. I usually like how things all thread together by coincidental relations by the end of the book, but at this point, I was tired of it. Some things felt too forced, too unfortunate, too tokenized. It feels more juvenile than the main series or Translation State.

I know I'm almost done with the book, but this guy's life is so sad, bland, and pitiful, and the characters feel awkward to me. I'm not a fan.

I listened to a good chunk of this book but I didn't manage to finish it before I had to return it. I'm not a huge fan of the writing.

It's really different from the first book

It's good in its own right but it makes me miss the main character I knew in the first book and how they moved around the world

I wanted to start reading this book but it doesn't seem to be on Libby as an audiobook

I'm not super thrilled about reading more YA at the moment but I'm willing to give this transmasc series a shot for the representation ❤️ plus it looks like it has cool world building