The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie (Orbit, 2019); audiobook read by Adjoa Andoh (Hachette, 2019)
The combination of first- and second-person narrative works surprisingly well but the story is weighted too heavily in favour of the monolith god. The plot is ultimately ho-hum Hamlet, while the notion of unreliable storytelling comes only as a damp-squib final flourish.
