I read this book knowing nothing of Ann Leckie's books. The collection is broken into 3 parts.

The first part is a few short short stories not linked to any of the book series the author has written. The story which the book collection takes its title from was the best out of those. The author was great at crafting a world with a mixture of sci-fi and spirituality in that story.

The second part contained stories from her sci-fi Ancillary series. They were interesting, but I had the sense I was missing a larger picture somehow so it was a little difficult to get into without having read the series.

The third part contained stories based off the Raven Tower universe, which is more fantasy based. I enjoyed all of those stories very much. The author was able to establish simple rules of the world and create a variety of stories with them. They all had different tones as well, which left the stories feeling more contained despite being set in this larger whole. I am very interested in reading the Raven Tower to see what the author comes up with using a longer format.

This collection was definitely worth a read, even for someone like me who knows nothing of the author's other works.