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Title: Already reading it a second time,can't wait for a third
Review: Karin's done a spectacular job here of writing a SF war novel that isn't so much about the war going on between humans and strits as it is about the toll war takes on its combatants.In Warchild those combantants -- military, civilian, alien and sympathizer -- are children. Youths whose idealism is fuel for death and destruction. She tells the story of Jos Musey, a newly orphaned 8-year-old, and follows him into captivity aboard a pirate ship, a brief respite on an alien planet, and back again amidst humanity. Throughout the book resonates with a tone that makes you want to sob with sympathy for Jos. The abuses he suffered with the pirates aren't shown in gory detail. Jos speaks in second person, distancing himself from them in the novel's first section. This didn't happen to him, it happened to "you" instead.I bought the book as soon as it came out and I'm already looking forward to reading it again.
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