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intotheheartwyld's review against another edition
1.0
Its bad enough when a book is only mildly interesting, its worse when the author thinks they can pull a 180 and make everything you read a complete and utter waste of time within 10 pages.
I love a good twist, but this was not the right way to do it, I am highly annoyed by this book.
Two kids, Seth and Kiva, wake up from virtual reality to find they actually live in space, and they are selected to go on a mission to find a missing part their ship needs to continue their voyage through space. [Because yes it makes perfect sense to send two 15-16 year olds on such an important mission.] You spend majority of this book dealing with two teenagers who don't know how to deal with their "feelings" for each other, which was so frustrating and annoying to read through.
They meet up with another ship and the old dude on it is a psycho and Kiva magically is able to get them to safety from him [oh yah did I mention shes only been awake from this virtual world for like a day, while Seth has been awake from it for like 3 years], and then you go back to the two kids dealing with their freaking feelings AGAIN.
Then in the last 10 pages the writer tries to pull a twist, with meeting another ship, but we have EXACTLY no clue who they are, but apparently there are a few important people on this ship but we never find out why. Then Seth just backtracks EVERYTHING he felt about Kiva in 0.1 seconds, for a freaking ship part and is like "oh well sorry bye" Making all that suffering through of reading about their feelings completely POINTLESS. She introduces new characters, gives insight that there is important people, no one knows where this other ship came from and why it has the same signal as the main ship floating around, and then THE BOOK JUST ENDS.
Nothing is answered, everything you read through becomes completely pointless, you are left with more questions then anything else [like why you even bothered to read this]
Lets also not forget that the author did end it on some frivolous quote about, 'not really knowing someone', and that just ticked me off more. This was going to get a 2.5 star from me originally but after that "twist" end its lucky it even gets 1 star.
I love a good twist, but this was not the right way to do it, I am highly annoyed by this book.
Two kids, Seth and Kiva, wake up from virtual reality to find they actually live in space, and they are selected to go on a mission to find a missing part their ship needs to continue their voyage through space. [Because yes it makes perfect sense to send two 15-16 year olds on such an important mission.] You spend majority of this book dealing with two teenagers who don't know how to deal with their "feelings" for each other, which was so frustrating and annoying to read through.
They meet up with another ship and the old dude on it is a psycho and Kiva magically is able to get them to safety from him [oh yah did I mention shes only been awake from this virtual world for like a day, while Seth has been awake from it for like 3 years], and then you go back to the two kids dealing with their freaking feelings AGAIN.
Then in the last 10 pages the writer tries to pull a twist, with meeting another ship, but we have EXACTLY no clue who they are, but apparently there are a few important people on this ship but we never find out why. Then Seth just backtracks EVERYTHING he felt about Kiva in 0.1 seconds, for a freaking ship part and is like "oh well sorry bye" Making all that suffering through of reading about their feelings completely POINTLESS. She introduces new characters, gives insight that there is important people, no one knows where this other ship came from and why it has the same signal as the main ship floating around, and then THE BOOK JUST ENDS.
Nothing is answered, everything you read through becomes completely pointless, you are left with more questions then anything else [like why you even bothered to read this]
Lets also not forget that the author did end it on some frivolous quote about, 'not really knowing someone', and that just ticked me off more. This was going to get a 2.5 star from me originally but after that "twist" end its lucky it even gets 1 star.
dylanisreviewing's review against another edition
2.0
2 stars.
Big thanks to Fierce Reads for sending this my way early, but the entire thing screams meh all the way through.
Big thanks to Fierce Reads for sending this my way early, but the entire thing screams meh all the way through.
morganthebookishbeagle's review against another edition
2.0
This was subpar in almost every way. The concept was so cool but the worldbuilding was lazy- Alexandria should have felt like I was reading historical fiction but it felt anachronistic, which they try to explain away within the text. It was a fast read and I was interested in seeing where the story goes but it ends in a cliffhanger that I don't really care about? Not the intention I'm sure. Shallow characters and romance didn't help either. I think younger readers or readers who don't read much sci fi could maybe enjoy this but I was disappointed.