Seven Mercies
From the Sunday Times bestselling authors Elizabeth May and L. R. Lam
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Seven Mercies
Narrated by:
Samara MacLaren
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Narrated by:
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Samara MacLaren
Summary
After an ambush leaves the Novantae resistance in tatters, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Wanted by two great empires, the bounty on any rebel's head is enough to make a captor filthy rich. And the Seven Devils? Biggest score of them all.
The Devils take refuge on Fortuna where Ariadne gets a message with unimaginable consequences: the Oracle has gone rogue. The AI has developed a way of mass programming citizens into mindless drones. The Oracle's demand is simple: it wants its daughter Ariadne back at any cost.
Time for an Impossible to Infiltrate mission: high chance of death, low chance of success. The Devils will have to use their unique skills, no matter the sacrifice, even if that means teaming up with old enemies. Their plan? Get to the heart of the Empire. Destroy the Oracle. Burn it all to the ground.
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Critic reviews
Seven Mercies is a worthy successor to its equally magnificent predecessor and an enthralling culmination to its sprawling yet intimate narrative.
Lam and May's follow-up to Seven Devils further explores the characters while keeping the action and emotional stakes high.
A riveting plot and super-sharp dialogue
A fun and entertaining romp.
Fantastic feminist fun and feels
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Works really well
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Clo and Eris are sidelined to make way for the strays they picked up in the first book and really these side characters don't have compelling problems. Nyx is sick, Ariadne is infantalised, Rhea feels lost, Cato remembers he has feelings. the hardest of these to swallow are the introduction of Damocles as a new addition to the squad, and he is pointlessly cruel and hugely emotionally stunted and does not get past this and isn't funny and therefore cannot work as an effective foil for the heroes when in their proximity, and Kyla, who mostly seems upset that people she hates misgender her. often 'women's sci-fi' - sci-fi patronisingly designed for women but that isn't feminist - often contains the most surface level understandings of sex and gender and these things aren't remotely important when the villain is an all-consuming galactic empire whose chief architect is an indiscriminate robot intelligence. so much of the surface level sexual politics and grievances sit within the book but have no interconnected thematic resonances - one crisis for a character is thematically unrelated to another beyond all our heroes encountering some kind of crises. the side characters also, by way of the book's length - have very boring drawn out issues. Nyx is ill, then she gets a cure later. Ariadne hears from.the oracle then rejects it later. there is no deep profound revelation for any of them. this isn't a symptom of too many characters, it's a symptom of too few conflicts.
I'm not going to go on... if you want more of what made the first book interesting you're honestly better off re-reading it. or trying something like Skyward from Brandon Sanderson which says more about growing up, independence and fighting for what you believe in than this does. and it somehow manages to be more anti-patriarchal and interested in gender and class at the same time.
it's okay I guess
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