The MC, now enlightened, asks to touch an alien's "hair". There is one scene that I have to mention, not in a good way, that I'm just baffled by. I think where this flaw shows the most is the last 1/3 of the book which really abandoned in-story believability to simply get the message across, and the ending that felt like an add-on demanded by an agent or editor and not the true ending of the story (as did the flimsy set up for this ending to happen.) (Is this YA? I don't think it is marketed as YA, but it would be much more successful for me if it was.) For an adult reader, I think exploring these topics may require a level of sophistication that this book doesn't have. For some readers, esp teen readers, I think a basic X=good, Y=bad can work fine, as this may be an introduction to these ideas and watching a character go through an awakening is effective.
But the problem with tackling such important topics is how to do it with nuance. I absolutely cheer it on for its ambition. The book takes on some weighty and important topics, including, gender essentialism, fascism, and racism. (I suggest you avoid plot spoilers if you want the same reaction.) When it happened, I was completely surprised. There's a twist in the middle of the book that I did not see coming at all. The space fantasy worldbuilding is interesting. It's generally well-written and an easy fast read. I've had a few of those lately where there's something interesting going on in the book, but I'm not sure it's successfully executed.įirst, the good. 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.Īlongside 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.Ī thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.Īnother book that is hard to review. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. 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.
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth.
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