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Some Desperate Glory
Jun. 19th, 2023 04:40 pmSome Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh, 2023 novel. Child soldier comes of age, questions what she's been taught. I really liked this - without getting spoilery, I thought it was very nicely constructed, good pacing, satisfying story. It's very closely in dialogue with Ender's Game (okay, maybe not so much a "dialogue" as "grabbing it by the lapels and shouting in its face") and maybe also a certain debate in Marvel fandom circa 2019, and, uh, videogames in general?
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It's marketed as adult but I wonder whether anyone might nominate it for the Lodestar - it's very much a coming-of-age book and I thought felt plausibly borderline in that "older YA - new adult" kind of way. I've kind of lost track of whether the current opinion is that certain kinds of content disqualify something for YA - like, there's a lot of stuff happening here with bodily autonomy and sexual autonomy, but if Chaos Walking counts as YA, this probably could too?
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It's marketed as adult but I wonder whether anyone might nominate it for the Lodestar - it's very much a coming-of-age book and I thought felt plausibly borderline in that "older YA - new adult" kind of way. I've kind of lost track of whether the current opinion is that certain kinds of content disqualify something for YA - like, there's a lot of stuff happening here with bodily autonomy and sexual autonomy, but if Chaos Walking counts as YA, this probably could too?
