![]() ![]() "A perfect military fantasy: brutal, complex, human and impossible to put down. It’s a deeply needed look at the myths we make. Clark’s The Unbroken is a compelling and persuasive reimagining of both heroism and heroics as something inseparable from identity, perspective, and history. ![]() Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. 'With its incisive look at the irreconcilable conflicts that colonialism wedges between desire, duty, individuality, and community, C.L. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. And then halfway through it changes again, as the destination looming in the background turns out to be. ![]() 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. In the first chapters of The Unbroken, Clark gives us a suite of amazing characters and a clear narrative trajectory then suddenly one of those characters is gone, and another’s world is turned upside down, and the trajectory changes. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. Description On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women-a princess and a soldier-will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy filled with rebellion, espionage, and assassinations. ![]()
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