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The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Aug. 12th, 2017 09:47 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is travelling in the seams between the stars. Here in the darkness, a war for control of the Legion has been waged for generations, with no clear resolution.
As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.
Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation – the only person capable of boarding the Makshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan’s new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion’s gravity well to the very belly of the world.
Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion’s destruction – and its possible salvation. But can she and the band of cast-off followers she has gathered survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kameron Hurley’s standalone SF novel is an all-female-character tour de force with imaginative world-building and a twisting plot filled with deception and betrayal and although I felt that some of the supporting characters were a little under-baked (notably antagonists Rasida and Anan), the novel nevertheless kept me engrossed from beginning to end.
Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is travelling in the seams between the stars. Here in the darkness, a war for control of the Legion has been waged for generations, with no clear resolution.
As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.
Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation – the only person capable of boarding the Makshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan’s new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion’s gravity well to the very belly of the world.
Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion’s destruction – and its possible salvation. But can she and the band of cast-off followers she has gathered survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kameron Hurley’s standalone SF novel is an all-female-character tour de force with imaginative world-building and a twisting plot filled with deception and betrayal and although I felt that some of the supporting characters were a little under-baked (notably antagonists Rasida and Anan), the novel nevertheless kept me engrossed from beginning to end.
