While each book has a different protagonist, I would recommend reading them in order.Īt the age of four, Yuri Kirov’s home was destroyed in one of the initial attacks in the war between the humans/alien war. The series starts with Warchild, which I still believe to be the best in the series. Trigger warning: rape, self harm, child abuse, child grooming…Ĭagebird is the third novel in Karin Lowachee’s science fiction series exploring how a war psychologically impacts boys. It would be interesting to see how their relationship develops or changes in the future as Yuri heals from his past. In particular, really loved the relationship between Yuri and Finch, although it is not clear why Yuri is so attached to Finch- in some ways I felt that he was replacing Estienne with Finch as his new anchor. The characters and relationships in this book were handled with such nuance and complexity for the most part. Still, the novel is incredibly engrossing, and Karin Lowachee is excellent at writing damaged characters without portraying them as mere victims. Where Jos refuses to acknowledge the abuse he suffered at the hands of Falcone, Yuri talks fairly candidly about what he's been through, making this book absolutely brutal and heartbreaking at parts. Like Jos from Warchild, Yuri had also been taken by the space pirate Falcon and made into a protege, however, he turned out very different from the experience. This was quite a difficult read and vastly different from the two previous books in the series, in terms of the character's psychology and internal voice.
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