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Review: A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
Part two in the Teixcalaan Duology – after playing a pivotal role in the recent political upheaval on the Jewel of the World, Mahit Dzmare returns to her native Lsel Station to find that she cannot escape politics – nor the long arm of the Teixcalaanli Empire – even there.
Review: A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
Part one of the Teixcalaan Duology – Mahit Dzmar, ambassador of a small space station to an interplanetary empire, is sucked into the politics and poetry of the court when she investigates the disappearance of her predecessor.
Review: Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is at war with several alien races. On a whim, rich kid Johnny Rico joins the Mobile Infantry on his 18th birthday, to serve a term and earn citizenship. But as he goes through bootcamp to join humanity’s greatest military outfit, and he trains for orbital drops on alien planets, his resolve is sorely tested.
Review: She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan
She Who Became the Sun is an alternate history/historical fantasy novel set in Mongol-conquered China, following the exploits of characters on different sides of the struggle for power: peasant girl trying to take up her brother’s fate and an enslaved general struggling to reconcile the love for his master with his history of oppression.
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