Thank you to Emily Tesh and Tor for the super early advanced reader's copy - physical copy at that!

When I cracked this book open, the first thing I saw was the list of trigger warnings, and immediately paused, anxious. Then I continued and started reading and for the life of me, I could. not. put. it. down. I literally ran out of annotation tabs that my parents had just gotten me for christmas reading this book! Once I got a little into the book, I realized - or at least it seemed to me - likely to be a commentary on military - especially with there being a non fiction of the same/similar name about world war I.

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I feel like the hard hitting and triggering topics were handled super well and I loved the character arc that Kyr goes through - I even ranted to a friend about it and almost - ok fine I teared up when it was over, especially assuming this is a standalone. I cannot wait to have a hardcover copy in my hands in April. The writing was so exquisite, and I believe this is the author's first full length novel? And if that's correct, this is one hell of a way to break into the novel industry and I feel so thankful and lucky to have gotten to read this so ahead of time. I even had a bookmark from my youngest sibling for christmas that perfectly matched that will be in the instagram review posts!

It's been a while since I've even been interested in science fiction, much less a space opera, and this did it for me, but good luck replicating whatever this book did because I don't think I can read anyone else even attempt to replicate this sort of story. Phew, did I make it without spoilers? I shall be returning in April to update with ALL the spoilers because there are lines that are spoilers that I need to share ugh!

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