Dove Arising
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Suspenseful, intelligent, and hauntingly prescient, this dystopian novel follows a fifteen-year-old as she endures the harsh reality of surviving under an oppressive regime.
“Beautiful prose and one of the most interesting main characters I’ve read.”—Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
“Fans of The 5th Wave, Divergent, and Legend will love this smart, futuristic thriller.”—Justine
Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.
Then her mother is arrested.
The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth dwellers. Training is brutal, but it’s where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider.
Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: that’s the plan. Until Phaet’s logically ordered world begins to crumble . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Generations ago, Phaet Theta's ancestors fled an environmentally damaged Earth for the Moon; now, Lunar colonists live carefully regulated lives under the governance of a strict, anonymous Committee and authoritarian Militia. When Phaet's journalist mother is forcibly quarantined (ostensibly for medical reasons, though dark purposes are clearly afoot), the 15-year-old and her siblings face living in the filthy, dangerous conditions of Shelter, where Lunar residents without resources are exiled. To keep her family safe, Phaet gives up her bioengineering dreams and her work in the Moon's greenhouses with her best (and be-smitten) friend Umbriel and becomes the youngest volunteer to join the Militia. Fortunately, she's smart, motivated, and once she starts working out with equally driven cadet Wes Kappa physically fit. In other words, well-equipped to navigate the now-familiar path of a dystopian heroine, gathering allies and identifying powerful enemies. Newcomer Bao's off-world setting and worldbuilding details are intriguing, but readers may struggle with Phaet's curiously emotionless affect, as well as some of the more formulaic elements at play in this series opener. Ages 12 up.
