Finished Ministry of Time today. I really liked it, and also agree that the mix of sci-fi, romance, thriller were weighted sort of strangely... but I also cared enough about the characters that I was fine just riding the waves with them. I dont think I found the end confusing... would love to talk about that.

Now I need to figure out what's next... I couldn't get in to Ancillary Justice, so I'm going to return that one. I have The Three Body Problem, but I started watching the series at one point, so now I wonder whether I'll get impatient with the book. Eh, you know what, I'll give it a shot. Tomorrow, I'm returning everything else to the library and starting fresh!

I'll have to scroll back and make a list from recent recs.

I couldn't get in to Ancillary Justice

Oh, really? I love those books so much, but I can't remember now if it took a while to get into them or not. I do remember that I didn't even pick them up for a long time because I somehow got them confused with Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson books but I'm pretty sure that's not your issue. Would really be something if it was!

Ministry of Time keeps getting bumped from the top of my TBR by library books because I own it so it's not on deadline. Weird little unintended consequence.

Hmm. OK, maybe I won't give up on it yet, then. God knows you all were right about not giving up on the Expanse series. (Still miss them!)

If you do decide Ancillary is not for you, maybe give The Raven Tower a try, that is my actual favorite Ann Leckie