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The Unbroken

For all its disturbingly plausible grime, gore and occasional horror, The Unbroken is not a dark fantasy. There is a current of optimism that flows throughout.

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Review of ‘The Unbroken’

Lieutenant Touraine is a conscript. Kidnapped as a small child from her homeland—once the Shāzan Empire, now the colony of Qazāl—she was forced into service in the Colonial Brigade of Balladaire, serving alongside others who, like her, were seized from their native desert lands.

They've recently been deployed to El-Wast, the capital of Qazāl and Touraine’s own…

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