Victories Greater Than Death

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2021 by Tor Teen.

ISBN:
978-1-250-31731-5
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OCLC Number:
1242021081
ASIN:
1250317312

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3 stars (15 reviews)

“Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”

Tina never worries about being 'ordinary'--she doesn't have to, since she's known practically forever that she's not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She's also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it's going to activate, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina's legacy, after all, is intergalactic--she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil.

But when the beacon activates, it turns out that Tina's destiny isn't quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed--and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian, …

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Victories Greater Than Death

4 stars

Victories Greater Than Death is the first YA book in an sf trilogy. It follows Earth teenager Tina Mains, who knows growing up that she is the clone of a dead alien space hero. She gets sucked into space adventures, trying to fill the shoes of the hero everybody expects her to be (but isn't), while still trying to save everybody. I don't read a lot of YA fare, but it ticked my expectation buckets of overflowing feelings, romance/relationships, family and life trauma, struggling with expectations (in various dimensions), etc etc. It was also just a fun romp overall.

Some specific callouts: * I liked that Tina's mom knew that Tina was the clone of some hero and would leave some day, and was both sad and supportive about this; a fun change from the normal "coming out" secret identity riff * the villain has the power to touch somebody …

Review of 'Victories Greater Than Death' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Overall an enjoyable read. Keeping in mind it's YA it just wasn't what I was hoping for.

The cast was pretty fun, but kind of shallow in some ways. We got a ton of details on this aspect or another and next to none on others.

If YA was my genre I'd likely be at least moderately excited for the next installment.

Review of 'Victories Greater Than Death' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

I really loved Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky, so I was really hopeful for her first YA book. Alas, it was not nearly as good. It started with a really interesting premise: The memories of a famous commander in an intergalatic war who just died are put into a new child, Tina, who is then sent to hide on Earth while she regrows into an adult. She's spent a large chunk of her life waiting to be picked up by her fellow space comrades while dealing with the indignities of high school life. But when she finally is picked up, it's not at all what she expected, including a spaceship on its last legs. The pacing of the book needed some work - it was so fast that I felt we skipped past a lot of really important things. Like, Tina might have been happy to …

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