Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy
by Emily Skrutskie
Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie drops you into a compact, high-stakes YA space opera about Ettian Nassun, a pilot who risks everything to save his best friend—and discovers that friend is heir to a brutal galactic empire. Expect breathless action, blended with queer emotional stakes and academy/military scenes; the useful part is the emotionally charged core that keeps personal loyalty front and center. Limitation: at times plot momentum trumps nuance, and some character beats feel telegraphed or rushed, which will annoy readers who want deeper worldbuilding.
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A young pilot risks everything to save his best friendthe man he trusts most and might even loveonly to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.Ettian Nassun's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy a...
Difficulty:hard
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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