When Empyrean stumbles across a battered New Horizon a few decades into the mission, the crew is anxious, fearing something must have gone wrong with the sister ship. Both ships leave Earth a year apart on a joint mission, never to meet until they reach their final destination.
Two ships, the New Horizon and the Empyrean, leave their dying planet behind, each full of bright-eyed and intelligent adults, eager to span the vast reach of space. In a distant future, the Earth has succumbed to centuries of humanity’s abuses, and mankind takes to the stars for hopes of a new future upon a distant planet. When I started seeing reviews pop up around the interwebs that talked about how dark and unsettling this novel was, however, I knew I had to get it into the rotation as soon as possible. Why did I read this book: I’m always a little leery of books with marketing materials/publicity that proclaims they are the next coming of Twilight/The Hunger Games/etc – which is why it took me a little longer to get around to Glow. How did I get this book: ARC from the Publisher (via BEA)
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Sky Chasers series Except for Waverly, who wants more from life than marriage-and is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.īut when the Empyrean faces sudden attack by their assumed allies, they quickly find out that the enemies aren’t all from the outside. The handsome captain-to-be has everything Waverly could ever want in a husband, and with the pressure to start having children, everyone is sure he’s the best choice. Her concerns are those of any teenager-until Kieran Alden proposes to her.
Onboard their sister ship, the Empyrean, the unsuspecting families don’t know an attack is being mounted that could claim the most important among them…įifteen-year-old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space she was born on the Empyrean, and the large farming vessel is all she knows. They need young girls desperately, or their zealous leader’s efforts will fail. On its way to populate a distant planet in the wake of Earth’s collapse, the ship’s crew has been unable to conceive a generation to continue its mission. Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon. What if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you’d been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival - not love - the issue? Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult
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