Ancillary Mercy

Well, it was better than the second book. This one has a new Presger (i.e. alien) Translator character, but it turns out to be mostly an oddball with strange eating habits, but you just know this character will have a bigger impact in the story much later on (wasn't wrong). There's still an obsession with drinking tea that happens so often it's weird. And using she for every pronoun (even for men) was only confusing. I knew Seivarden was a man from the first book, but every other character... who knows? Don't read this for the action because it's mostly a lot of talking. But more of interest happened in this book than the weak second book. Could have stopped with the first book.