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Charlie Jane Anders: Victories Greater Than Death (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Teen) 3 stars

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

Tina never …

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 …