Waiting on Wednesday – A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme that was hosted by Breaking the Spine to let us share our excitement for books coming out soon. It has gone the way of the wind and is no longer hosted there. But Wishful Endings is now hosting Can’t Wait Wednesday so we can keep the momentum going and link up there.

This line sold me I need to try this book: “navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret”

I’m really curious about this seductive alien culture!

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine
Published by Tor Books on March 26, 2019
Pages: 464

   

Ambassador 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. 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.

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.