A review by maggie6832
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed the worldbuilding, character development, relationship between Cheris and Jedao, and the slow uncovering of a secret plot. This definitely isn’t a book that holds your hand - the math and logistics of the hexarchate and formations do take awhile to figure out. It’s also very much a military space opera book, and while I appreciate the acknowledgement of the brutal reality of war and terrible calculations that the hexarchate must make to maintain itself, the graphic depictions of violence and mass casualties are rough.