Tuesday book review on Wednesday

 

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.