Some Desperate Glory

De: Emily Tesh

Narrado por: Sena Bryer

Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023

Hugo Award Nominee

Long-listed, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2023

Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023

"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations—gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named Yiso—are so skilled that listeners may wonder if this is a full-cast production. Complete with time slips, a reality-warping artificial intelligence, and epic world-building, this is a gripping, can't-miss listen."—AudioFile

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."—Tamsyn Muir

With three starred reviews!

While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, 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 escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

©2023 Emily Tesh (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

Wow!

Sooo many emotions! loved it. the first few chapters were slow but it pays off!

Main character

I’ve never had a main character piss me off as much as the one in this book… gawddaamn she’s hard headed

Epic!

I was captivated from the start. The narration was perfect. I wanted to be in the world Tesh magically created

More YA than space opera

Prob good for teenagers wanting something edgy, but it felt like it was for a younger audience. Had some plot holes I couldn’t get over and a few cringy moments.

""your actions are unwise""

Whenever I'm about to do something stupid I like to repeat this phrase to myself as if the wisdom is instructing me throughout my life.

I also loved how insufferable the main character was they really nailed her self righteousness.

Anyway, if fascist lesbian girl scouts vs aliens is your thing, I'd highly recommend giving this a listen

Love the characters and the story

This is a wonderful story and the voice acting was great. I’m an old boomer and it took me a little bit to get used to the they/them pronouns - but I’m used to them now 😂 highly recommended!

No notes!

What a great story! It didn't disappoint one bit. I loved the world building, the characters and and distressing as it was, the themes.

good book, outstanding narrator

One of the best narrations I've heard. I double checked there was only one narrator at the beginning.

Great original work

Totally different perspective on future humanity and galactic civilization. It is refreshing to see a new take on future humanity that seems just as plausible. Really great book!

Couldn't put it down

Thoroughly enjoyed this romp through multivreses. The optimism was refreshing. Sena Bryer was si good I had to check that there was only one narrator.