Title: Heavenbreaker
Author: Sara Wolf
Type: Fiction
Genre: New Adult, Science Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Entangled: Red Tower Books
Date published: May 21, 2024
A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Kaye Publicity, Inc. and Entangled: Red Tower Books in exchange for an honest review.
Bravery isn’t what you do. It’s what you endure.
The duke of the powerful House Hauteclare is the first to die. With my dagger in his back.
He didn’t see it coming. Didn’t anticipate the bastard daughter who was supposed to die with her mother—on his order. He should have left us with the rest of the Station’s starving, commoner rubbish.
Now there’s nothing left. Just icy-white rage and a need to make House Hauteclare pay. Every damn one of them.
Even if it means riding Heavenbreaker—one of the few enormous machines left over from the War—and jousting against the fiercest nobles in the system.
Each win means another one of my enemies dies. And here, in the cold terror of space, the machine and I move as one, intent on destroying each adversary—even if it’s someone I care about. Even if it’s someone I’m falling for.
Only I’m not alone. Not anymore.
Because there’s something in the machine with me. Something horrifying. Something…more.
And it won’t be stopped.
⤖ My Review ⬻
I was very, very keen to read Heavenbreaker ever since it was pitched to me as a “space opera sci-fi fantasy new adult read” and described by one of my favourite authors, Xiran Jay Zhao, as “a genre-bending, viscerally written thrill ride”!
The first ARC shipped to me was lost along the way and let me tell you…the wait made me all that more eager to get my hands on Heavenbreaker. You best believe I started reading it as soon as tore it out of the packaging and took the promo photos I needed.
The first few pages were a bit slow for me, but I needn’t have worried because things picked up pretty quickly after that! I think it’s also important to note that I was reading Heavenbreaker while coming out of the first trimester of pregnancy where I was very tired, very sick, and had zero motivation to read. So if you’re eying my timeline for reading Heavenbreaker and wondering why it took so long despite my being so excited, it’s a mix of me just getting my feet back under me and this book also being almost 500 pages!
My slow pace had nothing to do with my enjoyment—I absolutely loved it. I loved the setting, I loved the characters, loved the pacing…and I loved how much darker it was than I’d expected. I need more. I’m serious. I need the sequel STAT!
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