Wayward Reviews

A sci-fi LGBTQIA+ set in a dystopian world where Earth was destroyed by Aliens and humans are fighting to keep their race alive.

Book Synopsis

Book Details

Pages: 438

Genre: Science Fiction

Publisher: Orbit/Illumicrate

Format: Hardback

All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet.

Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she’s ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined

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Review

* Non-Spoiler Review*

This book was a mixed bag, while I liked the space concept and the dystopian story line around Earth being destroyed – I found that there wasn’t enough world building for me to feel as immersed as I wanted.

The main character irritated me immensely, for someone who has been raised to be a soldier, I found them to have little logic in their application of situations. Yes, they are young, however, with the amount of training they were supposed to receive I would have liked some practically and logic applied at times.

Overall, it was a decent read. Something different from my normal style and another book off my TBR. Would I recommend it? Probably not.

Spice Rating: 1/6 – See my rating system here

Book Rating: 3/5