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A review by aguiarbibs
Rebel's Creed by Daniel B. Greene
4.0
i was enjoying it so much i purposefully took a break so it didn't end too quickly.
it's quite fast paced which makes me crave more time with the characters but it suits the story (especially the one the author wanted to tell - since he wanted it to be a novella) though i wish we had more time with them, hence my reluctance to finish the book.
i think the author's ability to write excels in moments of grief and psychological pain - that's when i really feel connected to the book and what it's trying to do and say.
overall, the plot is interesting and keeps you engaged throughout - always wanting to find more and more. it does a great job of showing how political conflict interacts with actual physical conflict (war and battles). it's ruthless in its brutality, not as in it's gory for gore's sake but as in it's real. People die in battle, men you are friends with die, the worthy cause is not always lucky and even good people do bad things. this book shows this without feeling/going into grim dark, it feels much more real than the sometimes masturbatory feeling of grim dark. the characters also feel sickeningly real in a world with ungodly horrors.
it's a very nuanced book that does not hit you over the head with its themes which i appreciate but instead leaves you wondering. how both sides of a war can believe they are doing what they must for a cause they believe in so, how they can be so wrong and so right at the same time and how an evil party can believe with all its might that they're the good guys.
awfully real to me
it's quite fast paced which makes me crave more time with the characters but it suits the story (especially the one the author wanted to tell - since he wanted it to be a novella) though i wish we had more time with them, hence my reluctance to finish the book.
i think the author's ability to write excels in moments of grief and psychological pain - that's when i really feel connected to the book and what it's trying to do and say.
overall, the plot is interesting and keeps you engaged throughout - always wanting to find more and more. it does a great job of showing how political conflict interacts with actual physical conflict (war and battles). it's ruthless in its brutality, not as in it's gory for gore's sake but as in it's real. People die in battle, men you are friends with die, the worthy cause is not always lucky and even good people do bad things. this book shows this without feeling/going into grim dark, it feels much more real than the sometimes masturbatory feeling of grim dark. the characters also feel sickeningly real in a world with ungodly horrors.
it's a very nuanced book that does not hit you over the head with its themes which i appreciate but instead leaves you wondering. how both sides of a war can believe they are doing what they must for a cause they believe in so, how they can be so wrong and so right at the same time and how an evil party can believe with all its might that they're the good guys.
awfully real to me