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A Study in Honor: A Novel (Beth Bernobich)

Picked this up from the local bookstore near my area, and it was interesting! It follows the life of a veteran surgeon in a sci-fi world, who struggles with being defamed from the future civil war.
I love the narration of the main character. She journals constantly, so you get a good scope of her thinking process. She constantly struggles to do as much good in the ruined state that she's in, and her interactions with her partner later in the book are interesting. The book dives into the main character's discriminiation as a black educated woman, and I feel riled up with her whenever it affects the plot (which is a lot, by the way).

Medical school had trained me to be methodical. War had reinforced those lessons.

The war broke her life into pieces, called her a hero, then dropped her into a dark hole when she proved to be only human.