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Five-star review of Compete (The Atlantis Grail Book 2) by Vera Nazarian

Even though I’m not particularly fond of romances nor present tense writing, I’ve become obsessed with this YA science fiction series that’s becoming even more focused on a love story. Nazarian’s imagination continues to amaze me as she fleshes out the story of the Atlantean’s rescue of Earth teens and training and transport of the qualified twelve-to-nineteen-year-olds to the planet of Atlantis in the Pegasus system. Gwen Lark, her siblings and friends have a lot to learn during their year-long journey that uses a quantum stream to transport them so many light-years. The most prominent are their lessons in piloting shuttles that allow transport among the ships of the fleet. In addition to many of the great characters from Qualify, a few new and interesting ones are introduced. Although Gwen always struck me as immature and naïve, she is forced to mature a bit in this book. I’ll continue the series to the end and also read the other novels the author has written in this universe.

Tuesday book review

 

Four-star review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishuguro

This novel written as a memoir about the protagonist Kathy with remembrances begins with her childhood at Hailsham boarding school in England, but it wasn’t like those places in so many British boarding school series. The book was well constructed with the author gradually revealing what was really happening with these children. Kathy and her two best friends, Ruth and Tommy, are individuals, well-developed and interesting. Even when they are moved to the cottages, we don’t know what’s so special about them, although we can guess from the terms that are used for what’s in store for them.