The Light Brigade

356 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2019

ISBN:
978-1-4814-4796-6
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4 stars (59 reviews)

2 editions

Review of 'The Light Brigade' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Okay, I guess I should know better by now. I can deal with science fiction that is relatively straight forward - just ordinary folks in a future time, but otherwise pretty easy to digest. But I just can't get into these twisty far out science fiction novels, like say [b:Ancillary Justice|17333324|Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)|Ann Leckie|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1597476110l/17333324.SY75.jpg|24064628]. And to that list you can add The Light Brigade. It just isn't for me.

Not to say it didn't start out promising. Much like [b:Old Man's War|36510196|Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)|John Scalzi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1509467059l/36510196.SY75.jpg|50700] or [b:The Forever War|21611|The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)|Joe Haldeman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386852511l/21611.SY75.jpg|423], it was a military sci-fi. But then the protagonist made the first jump and everything went sideways, both for her and for me. Time travel, revolution, torture, you name it. I read another 150 pages and still had little …

Review of 'The Light Brigade' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

What I learned, as I looked back on those times, was that the lies are what sustained us. The lies kept us going. Gave us hope. Without lies we have to face the truth long before we are ready for it.

The majority of the book flirted in the "enjoyable" category but elevated itself to "great" when the significance of the Light Brigade is known. Like most of my random finds it came to me by way of r/fantasy, the Goodreads Readers Awards or mentioned as part of a recent nomination, wherever or however I stumbled across it, I am glad I did.

The days of trying to change the system from within were long over. Sometimes you had to let the whole world burn behind you.

Because I went in the story cold I will do my best to keep my review as bland and spoiler free as possible …

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