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The Stars Are Legion eBook Kameron Hurley

About 20% into it, I was prepared to not like this book. The sheer brutality and gruesomeness of the setting and story was jarring and seemed excessive at first. But once I got deeper into the narrative I quickly realized that all of the blood and guts were actually very relavent and necessary to tell the story the way it needed to be told. Go in expecting a Cronenberg level of body horror and you won't be as caught off guard as I was.

Zan is a very strong main character. The amnesia trope is handled pretty well even if the revelations around her origin did seem predicable. Jayd is a character I distrusted and hated very early on and that didn't change throughout the work. I think the reader is meant to both understand her motivations but also disagree with them, but honestly I was just hoping she would get killed off. The secondary characters are all very strong, and that may be one of the greatest strengths of this book. They really flesh out the world and provide a great deal of color and alternative perspectives on the society, its practices, and its cultures. Having an all female cast was also very brave and well executed, and completely suited the themes of the story.

My major complaint with the book was the some of Zan's surprise and repulsion at the cruelty of the setting felt very anachronistic. I couldn't tell whether this was meant to imply that the society she grew up in was less harsh than the one she has found herself in, or whether this was a conceit of the author to try and make it easier for the reader to identify with her. Either way, it really pulled me out of the story at several points because it just felt so out of place.

Overall, I was very surprised how much I grew to like this book in the end, and how long the story stuck with me afterwards. This is unlike anything I've read in the genre in a long time, and definitely worth checking out if you're not too squeamish.


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The Stars Are Legion eBook Kameron Hurley Reviews

The Stars are Legion is a book about lies we tell ourselves to survive, political maneuvering, and old fashioned shoot-em-ups in space. The story is told through two pov’s, Jayd and Zan. Two warriors who are determined to save all worlds, to sacrifice everything, including their own souls, to achieve the impossible.

The setting is both familiar and uniquely bizarre, just a ridiculous, wondrous treasure of images that i reveled in. The characters, all female, felt new and human in all aspects and vulnerability. At times, edge of your seat exciting and then in other moments, quietly heartbreaking. I plan on rereading this book soon so that I can look around these places again and revisit the inhabitants because there was just too much to experience in one go around. A very special read.
The premise is fascinating, and the worldbuilding is tantalizing, but the actual plot is fairly lackluster. Not particularly well-written the characters are ultimately shallow and interchangeable; there is little development over the course of the narrative; the descriptions of the world alternate between engaging and utterly lifeless. In a word uneven.
This is one of the most imaginative and impressive Science Fiction stories I've ever read. Forget all the allegorical/political stuff, this is - with no digging into it - an amazing tale of love, betrayal, politics, and war. It has a Heroes Journey that makes you feel like you are the one slogging up from the underworld to claim your prize. Characters are rich, imaginative, and have depth. They have real relationships and complex allegiances and rivalries that are more than just "you work for the other guy" or "you hurt me so I'm going to hurt you."

This story deserves all the praise it is getting and more. Though, it may not be for the squeamish with some of the descriptions.
I quite enjoyed this one. It had a very "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" feel.

*spoilers ahead*

I would love to read more stories set in this universe because I have so many questions! Are the starships/worlds genuinely organic or are they made of metal and somehow became organic? If so, then how or why? Where are the men? Obviously the women have no use for men, seeing as they can spontaneously become pregnant/give birth. Are these truly human women? Das Muni is called a mutant by the others and gives birth to non-human things. Other characters also give birth to non-human things... how does it work? What does the arm do? Anat and Rasida thought it was a weapon, but Zan explains that it produces life. The characters are concerned with giving birth to "the world." What is that? I need to know all of these things and more!

If you enjoy generation ship science fiction, female characters that have depth, and general weirdness, then this is the book for you. Highly recommended!
There is lots of cool stuff going on here a dying fleet of organic world ships, two flawed scheming pov characters, one who doesn't remember anything, and one who isn't saying anything. The details of how the ships reproduce/maintain themselves are neat and kinda gross. The pace is pretty quick with a lot of brutal action driving things forward. Thoroughly enjoyable.
The Stars Are Legion ( Edition) by Kameron Hurley

Truly one of the most imaginative books I have read lately. When you read the blurb, and see the phrase "World Ships", you might think of Star Wars type Death stars and the like. You would be wrong. Instead the author weaves a narrative of biological construction where everything and everyone are a part of the whole. This includes pregnancies and giving birth, and life and death and everything in between. (Oh, except that it never includes us Y Chromosome carriers?)
The various journeys are all very hard fought, and not just on a physical plane. Our heroes are also our villains. And they live, and die and live again. It's the last journey that means so much. Read this book and be, at turns, sad, happy, disgusted, joyful and more. It's not an easy book to read, but well worth it!
About 20% into it, I was prepared to not like this book. The sheer brutality and gruesomeness of the setting and story was jarring and seemed excessive at first. But once I got deeper into the narrative I quickly realized that all of the blood and guts were actually very relavent and necessary to tell the story the way it needed to be told. Go in expecting a Cronenberg level of body horror and you won't be as caught off guard as I was.

Zan is a very strong main character. The amnesia trope is handled pretty well even if the revelations around her origin did seem predicable. Jayd is a character I distrusted and hated very early on and that didn't change throughout the work. I think the reader is meant to both understand her motivations but also disagree with them, but honestly I was just hoping she would get killed off. The secondary characters are all very strong, and that may be one of the greatest strengths of this book. They really flesh out the world and provide a great deal of color and alternative perspectives on the society, its practices, and its cultures. Having an all female cast was also very brave and well executed, and completely suited the themes of the story.

My major complaint with the book was the some of Zan's surprise and repulsion at the cruelty of the setting felt very anachronistic. I couldn't tell whether this was meant to imply that the society she grew up in was less harsh than the one she has found herself in, or whether this was a conceit of the author to try and make it easier for the reader to identify with her. Either way, it really pulled me out of the story at several points because it just felt so out of place.

Overall, I was very surprised how much I grew to like this book in the end, and how long the story stuck with me afterwards. This is unlike anything I've read in the genre in a long time, and definitely worth checking out if you're not too squeamish.