{"id":13681,"date":"2023-04-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2023-04-13T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:49:53","slug":"k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13681","title":{"rendered":"K is Kyr battling in space for vengeance and SOME DESPERATE GLORY, by Emily Tesh (YA book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“While we live, the enemy shall fear us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’re the last true humans, hidden in a hollow asteroid<\/a>, living on scant food, training for vengeance after Earth was obliterated by the alien Majo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genetically-enhanced Kyr expects the other teen girls to train for combat with her focused ferocity, so they’ll be placed on a battleship instead of being trapped in the nursery as breeding stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only her brother Mags is a stronger warrior, yet he is sent on a suicide mission to a planet of Majo-cooperating humans, and the Commander assigns Kyr to her worst nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperate to save Mags and herself, Kyr enlists the help of his tech-savvy friend and crush Avi to escape their fates by using the recently-captured Majo ship and its alien pilot Yiso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Away they flee, to the same planet that their big sister defected to, the planet that the supreme Majo leader will soon visit\u2026coincidence? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history relentlessly drilled into Kyr gets a reboot, a shadow engine of subreality makes their toughest training sims seem like babies’ play, and the young people have only a short time to help Yiso keep things from getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then time twists\u2026 and twists…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who’s the hero here?
How can anyone gay survive in a society where reproduction is paramount?
What other ways could Kyr’s life have turned out? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, as now, different views of the same events bring conflict as well as opportunities for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What “fact” of history learned in childhood have you unlearned?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Some Desperate Glory \/ Emily Tesh. Tordotcom, 2023. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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