Ann Leckie can do no wrong, and I will live in the Imperial Radch world as long as she graciously allows me to.

This book takes us far from the places we've already been, to backwater planet Hwae. Ingray is an adopted daughter of a noble house, trying to stage a secret prison break for reasons of political advantage. It all goes wrong pretty much immediately, and things just continue to escalate.

There's family drama, murder, political maneuver, strange alien peoples, near-death situations, etc. Basically, what you would expect.

I really liked Ingray as a main character. I liked how she was genuinely bad at certain things (that prison break... GIRL) but also very competent in ways that even she didn't really appreciate. I liked how she was brave, loyal, and stubborn, but reacted to dangerous situations by almost always crying. I liked the twisted family relationships that she struggled with, and how she seemed to easily make allies and friends out of people. I liked how she genuinely needed to be saved, but also saved others through her own courage and ingenuity.

Overall, I adored this, which I'm sure surprises nobody.