Moonstorm
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventure—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!
Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan.
Desperate to shake her rebel past, Hwa Young dreams of one day becoming a lancer pilot, an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire’s most advanced tech—giant martial robots. Lancers are powerful, and Hwa Young would do anything to be the strong one for once in her life.
When an attack on their boarding school leaves Hwa Young and her classmates stranded on an imperial space fleet, her dreams quickly become a reality. As it turns out, the fleet is in dire need of pilot candidates, and Hwa Young—along with her brainy best friend Geum, rival Bae, and class clown Seong Su—are quick to volunteer.
But training is nothing like what they expected, and secrets—like the fate of the fleet’s previous lancer squad and hidden truths about the rebellion itself—are stacking up. And when Hwa Young uncovers a conspiracy that puts their entire world at risk, she’s forced to make a choice between her rebel past and an empire she’s no longer sure she can trust.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Hwa Young was 10, Imperial raiders destroyed her home and killed her family of rebels against the empire. Six years later, Hwa Young is a student of the empire she was taught to oppose. She dreams of becoming the empire's best lancer pilot, and she has no qualms following their rules to do so. An attack on her school forces the empire to implement an emergency draft that gives Hwa Young the opportunity to become a lancer pilot candidate two years earlier than expected. But as a ward of the state, Hwa Young is at a disadvantage to her classmates, whose well-established families give them an edge. As she undergoes grueling training she works hard to hide her rebel childhood background. Soon, Hwa Young unearths harrowing secrets about the empire and its history, and realizes that she must call upon her childhood teachings if she and her classmates hope to survive.. Via probing prose, Lee (Ninefox Gambit) addresses issues of colonialism and revolution in a high-concept space adventure narrative that centers a determined protagonist whose personal loyalties and lifelong dreams compete as she fights for the forces that killed her family. Ages 12–up.
