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cat-dragron · 2 months ago

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Going from Ancillary Sword into August Kitko and the Mechs from Space is such like... whiplash to my brain. Ancillary Sword was challenging to read in a way I wasn't expecting but man was it rich as hell, the depth of the worlds and characters in that book are insane. Meanwhile reading AKatMfS is like... the premise is so cool and seems right up my alley but something about the writing is just not gelling with me for whatever reason. I want to get through this book so badly because I am interested but like... part of me is just wondering is this it?? Is this all there is to it?

#cat rambles #spoiler talk in the tags now because I'm just thinking about this too much #like... I think around the same points in either book is when the big bad is revealed or like... shows up more prominently I think #and in AJ it's like FUCK that's Anaander Mianaai and holy SHIT she's such a huge threat but she's really only a threat to the main characte #she doesn't become a bigger civil war threat until a lil later and thats like god damn okay now people are really dying because of that #then in AKatMfS the threat is humanity ending like it wants the humans to go extinct and like SHIT that's pretty intense and it wants #humanity's knowledge and memories and shit which thats cool!! I enjoy that!!#Why the fuck does that not feel like as intense of a threat in my mind as like... the Lord of the Radchs????#it's weird... it's so weird because I WANT to enjoy this book I really do #it reminds me of pacific rim in all the good ways but also it just like doesn't go over the details I'm really interested in #and maybe it's just that I'm not as into Gus and Ardent as main characters as I am Breq but then again how the fuck do you top Breq #i also don't think it helps that the creator of the mechs/what is killing humanity was revealed so fast in AKatMfS #Like I started reading that chapter and.... I felt udnerwhelmed???#the twist was kinda neat like we've known about this AI since the beginning parts of the book #but idk.... it's like.... okay... AI knows it's going to be archived once it's no longer useful bc it was built on the corpse of its #predacessor and THATS INTERESTING!!! I LIKE THAT!!! so why then does it feel like such an old cliche #maybe I just gotta read more but I just feel... underwhelmed I guess for lack of a better term #fucking mitchells vs the machines did this shit and that had so much heart in it #back to the pacific rim comparison #this book is also about climate change and war and how bad humanity is and like???? fuck man.... idk do you have anything else to say #besides humans do bad shit and are unredeemable???#I'm sure it does I'm like so sure it does but god #anyways at least I get to read another Andrew Joseph White book after this :]#sunk cost fallacy has my ass unfortunatley #wow this got to be long

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