![]() ![]() The Unbroken deserves all of the praise it’s getting for being an incisive, intense look at the brutalities of colonialism, and for its gritty, realistic military/espionage style – however, that just isn’t something I enjoy in fantasy. This is a textbook case of me not being the right reader for this book. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. ![]() ![]() But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. ![]() Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. All opinions my own.Ĭontent warnings: violence, injury, and death, including amputation and major character death several scenes of hanging genocide cultural erasure, and violent and non-violent colonialism children stolen from families racism ableism past attempted rape, threats of rape, threats of torture. Ownership: Review copy sent free of charge by Orbit Books. ![]()
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