sayahbayahboo 's review for:

God's War by Kameron Hurley

5.0

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I’ve read Hurley’s fiction and nonfiction and while I enjoyed The Geek Feminist Revolution, The Stars are Legion and Mirror Empire fell flat for me. Hurley recycled ideas throughout her books, alter the gender status quo and combining technology and organics. While I admire these ideas, when they keep showing up again and again, everything feels repetitive and boring. Since God’s War came before the other books, I feel it held to the gender role reversals and big technology well. It all fit in Nyx’s world. Her characters were gritty, sometimes to the point of being unbelievable caricatures, but then again, they’re living in a time or constant war and hardship so maybe we’d all be that way under the circumstances. All in all, this book captivated me and I’ll definitely be checking out the next one in the series.