What carried me through the rather steep learning curve of this incredibly original story was the relationship between the protagonist, Kel Cheris, and the personality of prisoner/mass-murderer/potential psychopath Shuos Jedao that is implanted in her brain. Just think of it as magic and go along until everything becomes clearer. These things are vital parts of the world building, but you don’t have to understand them right away. It’s fine if nothing makes sense, it’s okay not to get what the hell that whole formation thing is about and what people mean when they say calendrical rot. This book’s second half turned out to be, if possible, even more amazing than its beginning.Īs mentioned above, don’t let the first two or three chapters put you off.
Without having finished the book! But as much as I felt I was doing something wrong (although, who was gonna stop me?), I can now happily report that I don’t regret it a bit. I had read about half of this book when Hugo nominations were about to close and… well, I nominated it. I must admit to you guys that I did a thing.
As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.Ĭheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.Ĭaptain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics.
Seriously! Stick with it!įirst sentence: At Kel Academy, an instructor had explained to Cheris’s class that the threshold winnower was a weapon of last resort, and not just for its notorious connotations. But if you push through, it will all make sense and the book will teach you how to read it as you go along. Stick with it! The first few chapters are confusing as hell and you may break your brain trying to understand what the hell is going on. I’m going to tell you what everybody says and that’s the reason I stuck with this book at all.
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