176 pages
English language
Published Feb. 15, 2022 by Tordotcom Publishing.
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.
“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.”
Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories.
The Order of Saint Rita―whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need―bore witness to and defied Central Governance’s atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling.
Despite the sisters’ secrecy, the story …
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.
“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.”
Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories.
The Order of Saint Rita―whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need―bore witness to and defied Central Governance’s atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling.
Despite the sisters’ secrecy, the story of their defiance is spreading like wildfire, spearheaded by a growing anti-Earth religious movement calling for revolution. Faced with staying silent or speaking up, the Order of Saint Rita must decide the role they will play―and what hand they will have―in reshaping the galaxy.
Very much in the same vein as the first one, but it doesn't quite have the same punch now that the setting has already been introduced and explored
I loved the first book and was excited to dive into the follow up as I loved the setting with the living ships and weird nuns. Only this book was sloooooooowwwwwww, nothing really happened besides all these nuns where complaining about what to do with their lives.
Luckily it ended with some space opera shit to make up for it, but geezz, get your act together sisters!
"It was what it was."
A very solid followup to one of my favorite novellas in recent memory. This very much feels like a middle part, not in that I expect a third (though I wouldn't complain) but in that the physical action takes a back seat to the way characters both think of themselves and relate to each other in the wake of the events of the first story and the repercussions they've had on the world they inhabit.
