I’m not being anti-trans or anti-gender-neutral in this. Making it uncomfortable and awkward to read. I very rapidly lost patience with her character and found no other characters that I could even begin to like.Īlso after having been impressed with Leckie for not getting into horrible neuter pronouns in the Radch books (they always pull me out of the story whenever other authors use them) this time she goes for it introducing her own particular variety of neuter pronouns in this book. And what is it with Leckie and bursting into tears? After suffering the Radch soldiers frequently doing so in the earlier books, Ingray seemed to be permanently either on the verge of bursting into tears or actually doing so. I found both the writing and characters very poor Ingray seems completely incompetent at virtually anything she tries mostly just reacting, poorly, to events rather than driving them in any meaningful way apart from her initial attempt to further her ambitions. Provenance is, for me, much inferior to the three Imperial Radch books.

The story begins with this venture starting to go off the rails. The main protagonist Ingray has embarked on a risky venture in the hopes of improving her chance of succeeding to the head of her very political family. Provenance is set in the same universe as Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy but in an area of space outside the Radch Empire and the Radch themselves have only a very peripheral involvement.

Provenance by Ann Leckie