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I've finished: The Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I had given up on Shadow of the Aprt after Salute the Dark. It felt like it was supposed to end there and I wasn't interested in reading more about war, strategy and tactics.

Now, more than two years later I decided to give the series another chance. To my surprise, I couldn't put The Scarab Path down.

The war aspect is sidelined in favor of the survivors stories, as they deal with their grief, trauma and injuries.

While the prospect of renewed hostilities hovers over the novel, the main story revolves around the mystery that lies at the center of the ancient city of Khanaphes, revealing more about the history of the world and it's two separate aspects: The Art & The Apt.

My only issue is that I hate the love triangle with Chay at it's center and can't stomach the fact that the Gestapo Fascist is the one who gets a redemption arc.

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"Avrana Kern has only limited and artificial emotional responses, being dead and a computer composed at least partially of ants."

#AdrianTchaikovsky 's Children of Time was one of my favourite reads this year. The sequel took a little bit longer to grow on me, but the alien life in this first contact story is memorably, wonderfully creepy, and overall this is another excellent book. Looking forward to getting started on the third! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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I #AmReading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.

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