

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.
