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Yoon Ha Lee: Revenant gun (2018)

427 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-78108-607-0
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OCLC Number:
1040034937

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5 stars (2 reviews)

"Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he can't remember committing. Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant. And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted--by an enemy who knows more about Jedao than he does himself..."--

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reviewed Revenant gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Machineries of empire -- book three)

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4 stars

Very good, more 4.5 than 4.
This was an experiment of sorts. I had read the first two books over 5 years ago and whilst my remembered impression was favourable a lot of the details were hazy. I decided to go into this read of the final book cold. No skimming a synopsis or doing a re-read etc. Just to see what it would be like really.
I remembered things as I went along well enough but the whole raison d'etre of the antagonist had slipped my mind so that bit was a nice reveal.
All in all a very high quality read, nice characterisations and that ineffable 'just one more page' quality any good book needs.
Recommended.

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Subjects

  • Soldiers
  • Fiction
  • Space warfare