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The Siege of Burning Grass | Premee Mohamed

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The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?

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The Siege of Burning Grass | Premee Mohamed

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Alefret, a pacifist, has been imprisoned and tortured for his refusal to participate in his country's long, grueling war. Always an outcast due to his size and appearance, Alefret agrees to travel to the floating fortress of the enemy to infiltrate the resistance and enable his minder, a zealous soldier, to carry out a secret mission to end the war. A gripping, harrowing story of the horrors of war, hard to put down and impossible to forget.

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The Siege of Burning Grass | Premee Mohamed

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Premee Mohamed‘s literary SF novel is a sophisticated examination of what it means to be antiwar and the impact of conflict on those who fight. Alefret is an interesting character and I enjoyed the way Mohamed teases out his backstory and motivations while there are moments of real suspense and tension within the story. However the final quarter is rushed and Qhudur an under-developed foil whose unshakeable fanaticism doesn‘t ring quite true.

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