It’s not exactly a secret that I generally despise royal characters - mostly because I feel that their existence implies a lot of suffering on the part of other people, and a lot of fantasy novels tend to gloss over these aspects - but The Unbroken is a novel that confronts all of this! It does the work. I loved that the book wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. Luca isn’t just a princess, she’s the potential queen-in-waiting of the Balladairan Empire, who seeks to prove her worthiness by quelling rebellion in the colonies.Īs a reader who lives for these kind of complexities, I loved this.
She’s a soldier that was stolen by a colonising force as a child to be trained in warfare, returning to her home country (Qazāl) many years later as part of the colonising army. Clark puts them under a magnifying glass. Here though, rather than shy away from any implied power dynamics and ugliness, C.L. The romantic subplot centers around the familiar naive royal & practical soldier trope. If you’ve seen any of the chatter about the Unbroken on the internet (and how could you not? bloggers are going wild for this) then it’ll be no surprise to you that this is a sapphic epic fantasy novel. The Unbroken is a book that unabashedly embraces its tropes, but in a way that doesn’t skip over any of the complexities that come into play as a result of their existence. Not because anyone is forcing me to write something more, but because this is the kind of book that I really have to talk about. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts.
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