Waverly and Kieran are the oldest children aboard a spaceship headed for the new earth, they were always expected to end up together. But then their ship is attacked by a neighbour and the girls are taken. Gasp, horror! The lovers are split up.

Honestly, I don't buy this book as a love story. It's very much a story about surviving against people trying to shut you down. Kieran and Waverly are separated for pretty much the entire thing - thinking about how to help themselves and the respective boys/girls rather than each other. I also felt a weird disconnection with them, at all times. I actually, from the start, preferred the relationship Waverly appeared to have with Seth - who I thought was a nice guy and not like his dad - and then proved to be a bit of a violent nut.

There's also a bit too much religion for my liking. Part of me feels the writing in this book was a bit forceful - there's lot more arguments for the sermons than against, and then there's the horror against the IVF treatments (yes, they were without permission but more on that) and the abortions. It all smelled too bible pusher for me. Let people make their own decisions please.

I was a bit annoyed at the girls' reluctance to help out the women of the New Horizons. Yes, Anne Mather was a tyrant but the others were genuinely nice people, trying to help and desperate to care for the girls and have a baby of their own. They weren't forcing the girls to carry children themselves or go through childbirth to rip the baby away. Yes, a bit more time for the girls to be explained how important it was to the women, and give their genuine consent would have been nice but there was not one point in the book where Waverly stopped to think, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing that she was giving these people the chance to have a family and sustain life on their ship.

Basically, I think a lot of this book is the characters being up their own asses in self-importance...