Thursday, May 23, 2019

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Aurora Cycle book 1)

“The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.” - taken from Goodreads.com

I loved these authors’ previous collaborations, The Illuminae Files, I so much that I couldn’t wait to dive right into their new series. Written in prose form, this story is told from seven different points of view. That sounds completely confusing but it’s not. Jay Kristoff describes this book as a cross between The Breakfast Club and Guardians of the Galaxy and he hit the nail on the head. Realized the shocking twist literally paragraphs just before it was revealed and that cliffhanger ending is seriously leaving me dying to get my hands on the next book. Once again, Kaufman and Kristoff have left me wanting to read more space opera books.

Book two is not yet titled.

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