Some Desperate Glory - Review
Link to the author's (E. Tesh) personal website
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (17)
- Length (5 / 10)
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Blurb: While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
Review: WARNING: THE BLURB CONTAINS SPOILS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. SUMMARY: I RECOMMEND THIS.
This book hit it well out of left field, and I'm glad with where it landed. The story heavily featured the dangers of indoctrination and the long road of recuperation to normality. I especially found it interesting in how this differently affected Kyr, Mags, Avi, and Cleo. Gaea station is a terrifying shit hole.
At the end of the book I was surprised with how small it actually was. The author did a great job of continuously moving the story forward, and fleshing out side characters well with only a small amount of screen-time. This is doubly impressive given how wide the scope of the story feels at times. My biggest problem is actually with the blurb, which in my opinion spoils plot points as opposed to just giving a tease of the premise. I would heavily recommend this for those looking for a stand-alone sci novel, and doubly so for those wanting a young protagonist.