I recently read the sequel to Ancillary Justice, and I like them too. The female pronouns make me think of reading girls' boarding school stories, with just an occasional man popping up here and there.

Re Foreign Affairs: I am very fond of Vinnie and Chuck and their friendship, and Vinnie's shocking research subjects. Many of Lurie's books are loosely connected with characters recurring in them, so Leonard Zimmern, the critic who rubbishes Vinnie's work, appears as a child in Only Children and an adult in The Truth About Lorin Jones, and Fred Turner's family in Love and Friendship. And so on.

Everyone lives happily every after with men at the end. That sentence made me laugh.