Bookmarks for Touraine || The Unbroken by CL Clark

Title: The Unbroken

Author: C. L. Clark

Publisher: Orbit Books

Publication date: 23 March 2021

Age group: Adult

Genres: Fantasy

Synopsis: Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow
conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may
be stronger than she thought.

Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne.

Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren’t for sale.

On-page Representation

Protagonists of color
LGBT protagonists
f/f main characters
m/m side characters
Nonbinary side character
older women

Trigger and Content Warnings

Depictions of colonial violence (physical and emotional) and destruction
Gore
Past attempted rape
Threats of rape
Threats of torture

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Cherae has been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages or reading about war and post-colonial history. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, PodCastle and Uncanny. The Unbroken is her debut novel.

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