supercheesegirl

I continue to love this series. This second book in the trilogy doesn't fail to deliver on the promise of the first book. We still get, in essence, a mystery to be solved, in space, told through the eyes of a unique character with a voice unlike any I've ever read. I think what continues to get me is the way that, through the standard use of feminine pronouns and terms ("daughter", "sister", "mother"), I consistently imagine every character as female, even after we're cued that the character is male. In fact I think only maybe two characters in this book are explicitly gendered; the fact that we're not told and are free to imagine everyone as female is just so liberating. I also appreciated the description by multiple characters on several occasions of another character who is very large and very dark skinned as incredibly beautiful. S/he is the hottest person on the space station and you just don't see this in sci-fi, I love this! Keep turning sci-fi stereotypes on their heads, Ms. Leckie!