Monday, December 7, 2020

Nova (Spectre War, #1) by Margaret Fortune

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Young Adult
Genre: Space opera
Content: Nothing that I can remember

 

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.


When I picked this up I was expecting it to be a book written for adults, but was surprised to find that it's actually YA. I think I would have liked it better if it had been written for adults. While I liked the story and found it interesting, the book got a little bogged down with the teen relationship. There were also a couple of twists that I saw coming from the beginning. Despite those things I still liked the book. I liked the characters and was sad that some things had to end up the way they did, but I also get why those things ended up that way.

It seems like this is going to be a series, but I have no idea how many books will be in it (there are only two right now). It also seems like the characters in the second book are older, as several years look to have passed. Right now I do plan on reading the next book because I'm interested to see where the story goes next and how the characters are written as adults.




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