Book rec: Warchild series by Karin Lowachee (spoilers in comments)

I've been meaning to write up something on these books for ... er, awhile now. I took along the first, Warchild, as airplane reading material back in August, and oh, I fell hard for it, hard enough to rush off to Amazon the first time I had Internet access and order the next two so that they'd be waiting for me when I got back to Alaska. (Sadly, it looks like most of them are out of print, but they're pretty easy to get from Amazon's used book resellers.) Anyway, I'm sick and I can't sleep, so I thought this might be a good time to write about them for a while, because I really want to talk about them and I don't know anyone else who's read them! :D This rec is cut for length, not spoileriness -- I've tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible, but if you have triggers relating to sexual violence or child abuse, read the warnings (in paragraph three) before reading the books. They contain potentially quite triggery material!

( Cut for length )

But still -- I loved these books a lot, and I'm crushing pretty hard on some of the characters right now. They totally mashed down my buttons for found-family and getting up from the wreckage and just generally trying to be a good person in the face of overwhelming odds. And if you want to read some really good military sci-fi or space opera, these books are definitely that!

ETA: I have found other people who've read them! *bounces* And there will be SPOILERS in the comments - though not in the post itself!

Book rec: Warchild series by Karin Lowachee (spoilers in comments)

I've been meaning to write up something on these books for ... er, awhile now. I took along the first, Warchild, as airplane reading material back in August, and oh, I fell hard for it, hard enough to rush off to Amazon the first time I had Internet access and order the next two so that they'd be waiting for me when I got back to Alaska. (Sadly, it looks like most of them are out of print, but they're pretty easy to get from Amazon's used book resellers.) Anyway, I'm sick and I can't sleep, so I thought this might be a good time to write about them for a while, because I really want to talk about them and I don't know anyone else who's read them! :D This rec is cut for length, not spoileriness -- I've tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible, but if you have triggers relating to sexual violence or child abuse, read the warnings (in paragraph three) before reading the books. They contain potentially quite triggery material!

( Cut for length )

But still -- I loved these books a lot, and I'm crushing pretty hard on some of the characters right now. They totally mashed down my buttons for found-family and getting up from the wreckage and just generally trying to be a good person in the face of overwhelming odds. And if you want to read some really good military sci-fi or space opera, these books are definitely that!

ETA: I have found other people who've read them! *bounces* And there will be SPOILERS in the comments - though not in the post itself!

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