• Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
• ISBN: 9780230770058
• Format: ebook
• Start: 2026-01-26
• Finish: 2026-02-03

Emily Marshwic is a noblewoman living in a country at war with its closest neighbor. When an announcement is made that the country will draft women for the first time, she decides she will go herself rather than sending a servant like the other families of status. The book follows her through the war as she discovers many things about herself and her country. This was a little slow to get going, but I ended up really enjoying it. The different perspectives on the war were interesting and I enjoyed a lot of the characters. There was a little bit of magic, but it felt so inconsequential until the end of the book that I think there could’ve been a better way of incorporating it.