A review by ergative
The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills

3.5

 This felt a lot like it was doing the same sort of thing as Some Desperate Glory, but with less imaginative plot construction. I find interlacing timelines very, very hard to do well. There was nothing about Zemya's process of indoctrination that we learned in the past timeline that couldn't have been portrayed equally effectively by showing us the end state in the present. And I always get bored by the past timelines because I know how things are going to shake out.