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A review by odin45mp
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
4.0
A good debut.
Kyr (spelling mistakes my own, I listened to the audiobook) is a child soldier raised to take revenge on Earth being destroyed. Only to find out there's so, so much more to the story than she has been told.
This book took a while for me to get into, because Kyr and her fellow soldiers aren't very likable. One even identifies as a complete asshole. She finds that the whole organization has rot at its core, that the state of the galaxy isn't quite what she thought it was, and that she might be able to do something to change it. Great action sequences string bits of plot together in a way that seldom left me bored and didn't stop to dwell on the science - it was here to service a high adventure, not prove theorems, and I'm good with that.
Recommended for fans of The Light Brigade, Starship Troopers, and Star Wars. Note: the content warning at the start of the audiobook is accurate. Definitely check the list before buying if you are sensitive to any number of difficult subjects, because odds are someone somewhere in the story either inflicts it on others, or contemplates it, or does it.
Kyr (spelling mistakes my own, I listened to the audiobook) is a child soldier raised to take revenge on Earth being destroyed. Only to find out there's so, so much more to the story than she has been told.
This book took a while for me to get into, because Kyr and her fellow soldiers aren't very likable. One even identifies as a complete asshole. She finds that the whole organization has rot at its core, that the state of the galaxy isn't quite what she thought it was, and that she might be able to do something to change it. Great action sequences string bits of plot together in a way that seldom left me bored and didn't stop to dwell on the science - it was here to service a high adventure, not prove theorems, and I'm good with that.
Recommended for fans of The Light Brigade, Starship Troopers, and Star Wars. Note: the content warning at the start of the audiobook is accurate. Definitely check the list before buying if you are sensitive to any number of difficult subjects, because odds are someone somewhere in the story either inflicts it on others, or contemplates it, or does it.