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Publisher: Steve Catto Books
Publication Date: 12th February 2024
Genre:Dystopian/ Science Ficiton
Summary:
“You can’t live on a dream, but you can die without one.” - Alakzander Balagoun The Balagoun brothers’ ten-year plan for taking the citizens of New London to a new life on Mars following the apocalypse is about to become a reality with the approaching launch of the first test flight, but equipment, supplies and energy are going missing, conspiracy theories are rife, and it seems as if not everyone wants to leave the Earth anyway. To take their places as leaders of the new civilisation, their granddaughters Freya and Reihna must put aside their divided loyalties to the family and keep a restless city supporting a questionable dream. If the information that the local news reporter Hanna Finnegan discovers proves to be true, that dream might just turn out to be a nightmare…
Review:
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours and Steve Catto for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Now I've only just started to get into Science fiction books after finally finding my gateway into the genre (I had a lot of bad luck before) so this one really caught my eye because it was mixing Dystopian future with science fiction and I really liked the idea of that. The blurb drew me and I was really excited to get stuck into this beginning of a series.
I found Steve Catto's writing style really easy to read and quite immersive, i flew through the first 98 pages completely in that setting that he'd brilliantly set up for us. But at about page 99, the book took a right-hand turn that I completely wasn't expecting and whilst that was an interesting turn to take it completely threw me out of immersion. After that, I couldn't get that immersion back, and I felt like the story went in a different direction than what the blurb promised. I almost felt like this second half of the book could have been a completely different book because it felt like two different ideas for a series( both of which I'd have happily read separately). And there were a few characters in the book that sort of felt like they hadn't been fleshed out properly, and almost like they were thrown in as an afterthought because they were needed to move the story along a little.
All in all whilst the back end of this book wasn't really my cup of tea I very much enjoyed how it began and I think I'd like to see what Steve Catto publishes after this series.
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours and Steve Catto for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Now I've only just started to get into Science fiction books after finally finding my gateway into the genre (I had a lot of bad luck before) so this one really caught my eye because it was mixing Dystopian future with science fiction and I really liked the idea of that. The blurb drew me and I was really excited to get stuck into this beginning of a series.
I found Steve Catto's writing style really easy to read and quite immersive, i flew through the first 98 pages completely in that setting that he'd brilliantly set up for us. But at about page 99, the book took a right-hand turn that I completely wasn't expecting and whilst that was an interesting turn to take it completely threw me out of immersion. After that, I couldn't get that immersion back, and I felt like the story went in a different direction than what the blurb promised. I almost felt like this second half of the book could have been a completely different book because it felt like two different ideas for a series( both of which I'd have happily read separately). And there were a few characters in the book that sort of felt like they hadn't been fleshed out properly, and almost like they were thrown in as an afterthought because they were needed to move the story along a little.
All in all whilst the back end of this book wasn't really my cup of tea I very much enjoyed how it began and I think I'd like to see what Steve Catto publishes after this series.
Krystina xx
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