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No Oath Sworn
Is War What Makes Us Human?
Tommy Longo was just fifteen when his brain was removed so that he could become a superfighter pilot; any older and it would've been too late. The separation was only meant to last a year or two, and he was supposed to remain a civilian. Instead he gets caught up in a surprise attack and is asked to help cover a major retreat, a thankless and difficult job for even the most seasoned veteran. Can a civilian boy find the inner strength to stand up to such a grueling task? And when it's done, will he have what it takes to fight an even dirtier war alongside the guerillas long after his high-tech fighter is gone?
What does war mean, anyway? What sense can be made of it, and what purpose does it serve? For that matter, what can war mean to the no-longer-quite-human?
And perhaps most important of all… Can young Thomas survive it?
Tommy Longo was just fifteen when his brain was removed so that he could become a superfighter pilot; any older and it would've been too late. The separation was only meant to last a year or two, and he was supposed to remain a civilian. Instead he gets caught up in a surprise attack and is asked to help cover a major retreat, a thankless and difficult job for even the most seasoned veteran. Can a civilian boy find the inner strength to stand up to such a grueling task? And when it's done, will he have what it takes to fight an even dirtier war alongside the guerillas long after his high-tech fighter is gone?
What does war mean, anyway? What sense can be made of it, and what purpose does it serve? For that matter, what can war mean to the no-longer-quite-human?
And perhaps most important of all… Can young Thomas survive it?
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2011
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September 13, 2011
If I'm being honest, I didn't have the highest of expectations going into this book. But I was pleasantly surprised by how I found myself unable to put it down once I got into it. The characters were imaginative and original. The main character, a minor without his body because his brain has been removed so he can fly a special aircraft, really adds an interesting and very complex element to the entire story. Not to mention, it explored the devastation and horrors of war through the eyes of a teenager. It did drag in parts and I wasn't as satisfied with the ending as I would've liked (it's the first part of a trilogy), but overall, the characters and the fluid storytelling really kept me going.
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