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I don't know why, but the urge to read this classic came to me. I read the book countless times as a child, but reading it as an adult (who knows the ending) was a different experience altogether. I guess in my memory the novel was better constructed, Poirot was more brilliant and the story took several days. But yay, nostalgia!

The long-awaited (well, by me at least) end of the "Imperial Radch"-Trilogy did not cease to amaze. While "Justice" was a deep insight into the mind of the fleet carrier AI now known as Breq, "Sword" showed one small tea-growing world inside the vastness of the Radch imperium. "Mercy" is different; the pace is faster, all-knowing Breq is sometimes cut off from Ship's information, there is less singing and … even if everything is much more dangerous, the book is funnier. Leckie gives us complicated board games, fire fights in space, rebelling AIs and a conclusion which gives closure, but begs for yet another sequel.

I loved the translator, the loved the other ships and I was very happy that my fear Leckie wouldn't be able to give the series a good end was not justified. The story feels rather small, but I guess that's part of the lesson and the story Ann Leckie is trying to tell. Would recommend to everybody who loves Sci-Fi and everybody who doesn't mind that good fiction is taking place in space.

"Tschick" aus anderer Perspektive. Leider hat Herrndorf diesen Roman niemals fertigschreiben können, zum Glück hat er entschieden, dass er so erscheinen darf. Es großartiges Stück unvollendete Literatur.