Unconquerable Sun

hardcover, 528 pages

Published July 7, 2020 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-19724-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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reviewed Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (The Sun Chronicles, #1)

Unconquerable Sun

4 stars

My library delivered me the sequel this week, so I thought I'd give this first book in the series a comfort reread. I don't think I'd describe this book as necessarily telling a ground-breaking novel story (I am a smidge tired of ye olde crumbling intergalactic magic transportation network built by an ancient civilization not around anymore at this point), but I think the characters are fun, the space politics and worldbuilding are intricate, and overall it's a heck of a ride.

This book is billed as "gender-swapped Alexander the Great in space" and (mostly) follows Sun the heir princess trying to prove herself in the shadow of her mother the Queen-Marshal, and Persephone who is trying to escape her high-ranking family and make her own way in the world. There's also some perspectives from the "enemy" here as well, which puts the overall conflict more in the realm of …