The Iron Children, Rebecca Fraimow
The Iron Children, Rebecca Fraimow
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The Iron Children

Author: Rebecca Fraimow

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/25/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Asher has been training her entire life to become a Sor-Commander. One day, she’ll give her soul to the gilded, mechanical body of the Sor and become a commander to a whole battalion of Dedicates. These soldiers, human bodies encased in exoskeletons, with extra
arms, and telepathic subordination to the SorCommanders, are the only thing that’s kept the much larger Levastani army of conquest at bay for decades.

But while on a training journey, Asher and her party are attacked, and her commander is incapacitated, leaving her alone to lead the unit across a bitterly cold, unstable mountain. Worse, one of the Dedicates is not what they seem: a spy for the enemy, with their own
reasons to hate their mechanical body and the people who put them in it.

To get off the mountain alive, Asher and her unit will need to decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice—and what for.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zen on December 30, 2022

I knew I would like this, but in fact I LOVED it. I wish there were more SFF like it! When calamity strikes, an inexperienced commander has to lead her troop through a perilous landscape — but there’s a saboteur in their party, who will make them question everything they fight for. In a genre preocc......more

Goodreads review by Iona on January 01, 2023

Lovely, thoughtful SF, with a small canvas: it's about a small platoon of soldiers who are trying to get themselves off a mountain. Their commander is dead, and has been replaced by Asher, who is a novice, and unlike the late commander, not a human intelligence in an artificial body who can keep her......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on January 20, 2023

This fantasy novella is the perfect mix between Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series (soldiers campaigning in the grit and grime of the Napoleonic wars) and Martha Wells's Murderbot, and I'm pretty sure that anyone who's enjoyed either of those two other series will enjoy this one. There are three PoV c......more

Goodreads review by ancientreader on September 04, 2023

Hmm, let's see. There is a war. On one side, the combatants are cyborg nuns, still partly embodied -- there's flesh under their armor and augmentations -- squads of whom are under the control of a more exalted nun who has given up her body altogether and is basically an intelligence housed in a sort......more