Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

 Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (438 Pages)

Summary: While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she's known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. 

Opinion: I don't have the words to describe how much I loved this book. If you like action, sci-fi, or dystopian reads, I would highly recommend. This book is like the Hunger Games meets the Illuminae Files meets the Star Trek universe. With all that being said, this book has heavy themes that can be triggers such as sexual assault, rape, abuse, and genocide. My only true critique of this book is that I wish there was more of an epilogue for the reader to see how some of the side storylines ended up, but perhaps I just want more of this world.