Chris R (for Reading) finished reading Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
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Oh WOW did I like this book.
It takes a lot to take an unlikable protagonist, put you right inside their thoughts, show you them being a bigot and an asshole, and still make you root for them. The story is a hell of a trip, and inverts the rebel-against-the-empire trope really, really well.
So far, of the three Hugo finalists I've read, this is my fave.