That’s a personal problem that I have and not something I think will affect other readers – particularly if politics is one of the things you love in a book. This book has a lot of political intrigue which long-time readers will know is not my forté because I suck at remembering names and who is affiliated with whom – but in this case, I think the curse of the ‘need to re-read’ strikes again.
Basically, give me more cyphers please and thankyou. This was a really interesting focus for a story, and I liked the significant role information (and misinformation) had within the plot. Some of the aspects of this story that I found particularly enjoyable were the way the story valued information, from everything from memory to physical information being encrypted. It’s something I often find with books that tackle this kind of scope. It’s quite unfortunate that my schedule doesn’t allow me to read all the books I review twice – I think it would have a big impact on my ratings! So yes the detailed worldbuilding and character development is there, but it’s not seamlessly integrated into the story, which leaves me needing to re-read to absorb everything. That happens sometimes – I find it usually means a book is so dense in detail that it can’t all be comprehended on a first read. I’ve already marked this book for a re-read because I know I’ll get so much more out of it on a second read. It all combines to make an incredibly interesting plot coupled with some fascinating worldbuilding (alien cultures are always interesting).īut this isn’t, at least for me, a book that hits a home run on the first read. I think the concept for this book is truly amazing and unique – I loved the idea of the fish out of water story combined with a murder mystery that ties into that ‘deadly technological secret’ – it makes a lot of these elements which have been fairly overdone in multiple genres a bit of a new life. It ended up not being amazing but hear me out because I do think this is worth a read. What else do I love? Murder mysteries! With all that in mind I feel like this book had the potential to be truly amazing.
I love a science fiction novel that delves into ideas of ‘self’ and ‘identity’ so this felt like it would be a solid read for me. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan’s unceasing expansion-all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret-one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life-or rescue it from annihilation. But no one will admit that his death wasn’t an accident-or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. I wasn’t totally sold on the whole science fiction thing at the time (oh how times change) and I couldn’t quite work out what it was all about based on brief glimpses of the cover.īut here we are, it’s 2020 and I’ve got a hankering for really good character-driven science fiction – enter the paperback release of A Memory Like Empire and the kind people at Tor who sent me a copy for review – I was excited to get started.Īmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. A Memory Called Empire was a book that sort of passed me by when it first came out.
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