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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