![]() There’s never a point where I’m explicitly rooting for one over the other because both of their cases are laid out in the narrative in such carefully placed detail that you understand the deeper nuances. Luca, the love interest of sorts, sees their own bad decisions through almost the same moral lens as Touraine and man is it beautiful to see how these two mirrors crash into one another. ![]() Touraine, the star of our story, makes so many bad but perfectly in character decisions that you weep for her. These are messy questions explored with even messier characters. ![]() Can you exist in the world without a home? If home isn’t just a place, then why fight so hard for the land you stand on? Can you come back to a home you never even knew? Are you able to build a new home without betraying your old one? But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be…Īt its core, this is a book about how colonialism permanently erupts the idea of home. 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. In an epic fantasy unlike any other, two women clash in a world full of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire. ![]()
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