[jemmyw]

> I couldn't finish the 2020 Hugo Award winner because for the first 50 pages it was the protagonist moving into an apartment, unpacking stuff and walking around in a city.

That would be "A Memory Called Empire". I really enjoyed that book. Sure, you could boil it down to moving into an apartment... From having lived on a space station to an alien world, as a new ambassador, dumped into intrigue. That's quite a lot of unpacking.

[stevenwoo]

The poster missed out on quite a barn burner of a middle and finish in A Memory Called Empire, and the sequel A Desolation Called Peace, which also won the Hugo Award.