Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle)
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4.6 • 27 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic...
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 tech-whiz 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.
NOBODY PANIC.
‘Aurora Rising is to sci-fi what Stranger Things is to the cinema of the eighties – a fusion of everything you love about the genre that adds up into something completely fresh.’ Samantha Shannon
'A beyond epic space adventure that will make a sci-fi fan out of anyone.’ Alexandra Christo, author of To Kill A Kingdom
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 2380, Aurora Academy's Tyler Jones has it all. He's the most decorated cadet in his year, in line for the best missions with peacekeeping group Aurora Legion, and ready to recruit his dream squad he just has to get through the Draft. But when a late-night flight reveals a ship that disappeared more than 200 years ago, he follows protocol and rescues a cryogenically frozen human girl, missing the Draft entirely. Stuck with his twin sister and a squad of misfits no one else wants, Tyler resigns himself to making supply runs for the foreseeable future. Then Auri, the girl he rescued, turns up as a stowaway. Now on the run from the Global Intelligence Agency, which will stop at nothing to capture Auri, Tyler and his squad must bring her to safety and probe deeper into her visions of Octavia, a lost human colony in a different solar system. The story is told from seven perspectives, which can make for uneven character development, but coauthors Kaufman and Kristoff (the Illuminae Files series) maintain an exciting, fast pace; a steadily coalescing band of crewmates; and plentiful romantic tension in this entertaining space opera. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Loved ittt
My new favorite book!! Love it❤️❤️
Amazing and perfect for a READING SLUMP
I have purchased this book while I was waiting in line for an event. I was bored and I had left my headphone at home and I needed something to pass time while waiting. I bought this book thinking to myself “oh, this will kill my time”. It was only £4.99 and i have seen some Instagram posts about it so it seemed perfect at a time. I bought it on Wednesdays. I finished it by Saturday morning ( it may seem slow to some people but with my schedule, it was FAST). I couldn’t drop the book if someone had their gun to my head, it pinned me down to my bed and I flew through the story crazy smooth.
I will have no spoilers but this book has one of the most irritating and amazing love story/ plot line I have read in a book. Once I finished the book, it left me so... shocked. I went ahead and purchased a second part as a pre order, anticipation thick in my lungs.
Now, I am not a bit fan of sci fi books, I am more of deep fantasy gal. Sci fi always bored me in the past and just didn’t leave me too impressed, sort of having an “meh” effect on me. But this one right here... wow, just sooooo outstandingly good. I felt like a little child against, sat before my square tv and watching some sort of cartoon in an anime style about space and aliens.
The humour is so witty and sharp, always finding a way for me to go like “damn, that was good” and hoping I had more friend who read books like these so I could call them and be like “you won’t believe what he said in this chapter!”.
Overall is a so impressed by both authors for creating such an amazing adventure that took me away from my everyday problems for a moment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻