dustydigger
2/19/2014
Oh dear, the premise of this book is excellent - cryogenically frozen scientists will sleep away 350 years till they arrive at the planet they are to colonise, meanwhile support staff live on the ship, a generation ship. Some cataclismic changes have taken place before Amy is prematurely aroused from sleep. Lots of secrets on this ship, lots of authoritarian control, murders and a teenage romance. . . . All completely ruined for me by the whiney childish Amy. She is either very angry or crying in self pity, and she irritated me unbearably. Cardboard chracters and improbable events just added to the wish for the book to be over. I suppose teenagers, at whom the book is aimed have very little knowledge of science fiction, so perhaps they were awed by this book, but all in all, a waste of a great (though derivative) idea.
Do yourself a fvour, if you want intelligent YA science fiction, check out Laini Taylor's impressive Karou sequence, and see how it should be done.