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In a 150-year spaceship voyage from earth to another planet and filled with both living workers and frozen colonization experts, two teens discover that everyone's been keeping secrets from them and the rest of the travelers. The world created in the confines of the huge spaceship is intriguing and the unresolved conflicts at the end of this first volume of a planned trilogy will bring readers to the next volumes, A Million Suns (2012) and Shades of Earth (2013.) I think this would be enjoyed by
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I read this book in four hours. Well, four hours and 30 minutes because 15 pages from the end I had to leave to pick kids up from school and I was chomping at the bit to get back home and finish it.
Sometimes I'm a bit wary when I hear people hyping up a book. I heard about how amazing a certain series with an emo teenage girl and a creepy vampire was and I was less than impressed when I gave in and read it. I tend to like to read books before the hype starts up on them - but this one.. the hype ...more
Sometimes I'm a bit wary when I hear people hyping up a book. I heard about how amazing a certain series with an emo teenage girl and a creepy vampire was and I was less than impressed when I gave in and read it. I tend to like to read books before the hype starts up on them - but this one.. the hype ...more
A claustrophobic tale about a colony lives in a spaceship, a dictator going crazy, a rebellious successor, and a girl from Earth trapped in a world she can't fathom. A bit bland and predictable here and there, but the idea is really fresh, like reading Chaos Walking books and watching Star Trek movies at the same time.
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Rather like Leviathan, I read these two books, back to back and thus I'm going to talk about them all in one (which means you get one of your reviews from this coming weekend early).
I'm still not quite over wrinkling my nose at a number of situations set up in this book, BUT I have to give the woman some grand credit. Every single novel in this trilogy will be an entirely different living/political system with completely different pitfals and triumphs. And it's so rare to see that handled anywh ...more
I'm still not quite over wrinkling my nose at a number of situations set up in this book, BUT I have to give the woman some grand credit. Every single novel in this trilogy will be an entirely different living/political system with completely different pitfals and triumphs. And it's so rare to see that handled anywh ...more
Good, but the ending was too abrupt for me. Was hoping for another book to tie up the loose ends. We'll see.
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I listened to this as an audiobook, and I can't tell if that made the lazy writing more or less noticeable. I liked the idea of this book and the mysteries, but it was almost always set at a frantic emotional pace that just wore me out. I do not think I will read the sequels.
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Jan 20, 2011
Leslie Jones
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Stacie
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