The Light Brigade

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back . . . different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief - no matter what actually happens during combat.

Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s. And Dietz’s bad drops tell a story of the war that’s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on. Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero - or maybe a villain; in war it’s hard to tell the difference.

The Stars Are Legion

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion. Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation - the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion.

But Zan's new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion's gravity well to the very belly of the world. Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion's destruction - and its possible salvation. But can she and her ragtag band of followers survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?
Review:
Hmmm, don't know what to say about this book. Weird is one word I suppose. Overall though I enjoyed it, kind of. Found it very interesting but kinda gross in some parts as well. The author has a very inventive mind and it's very well written.

Bel Dame Apocrypha Series

Nyx is a bel dame, a bounty hunter paid to collect the heads of deserters - by almost any means necessary. ‘Almost’ proved to be the problem.
Bel Dame Apocrypha
Bel Dame Apocrypha