Ancillary Justice

I greatly enjoyed the world-building in this novel (luckily there is a sequel out there already!) and the POV of the main character, once part of a larger “hive mind,” so to speak, now struggling to live inside his/her own head while trying to figure out what happened to the rest of him/her. I can't pick a pronoun because one of the features of this book is a language where the default pronoun in use is “she.” So, a) I don't really know what the gender of the main character is and b) I had to work at remembering that not every character in the novel was female and I guess c) I had to consider whether it mattered. This is one of the things I enjoy about science fiction/speculative fiction - having to think about non-human perspectives makes you really consider what your definition of “human” is in the first place. A very interesting read.