As I’ve come to expect from this author, I was immediately dropped into a beautifully vivid story that I could see all of the beautiful scenery and not so beautiful events just come alive off the page as I read. The cover gives you a perfect idea of how this planet the ship lands on must look. You might think it is a fantasy story, but no, this is science fiction. From the space travel, to looking at how we had polluted the Earth and our own human weaknesses coming about, it hit very close to how many people feel about the world these days.

There was a lot intrigue and mystery to keep you turning pages along with the creative science fiction aspects of the story. While this might be a YA series with the main characters being around 17 or 18, it had so many twists and turns and deeply hidden trails it was comparable to many adult science fiction novels I’ve read in the past.

Personally I’ve always been not the biggest fan of plants. I mean I have a total black thumb myself, can’t get them to grow when I try or keep them alive either. And then I’ve always been a bit creeped out by things they can do without what we would think of as a “brain”. Then the author threw in a part with flowers that could echo or speak, and that reminded me of the plants in The Ruins by Scott Smith, a favorite book of mine, but also one that is very creepy!

The creatures that developed on the planet as well as its history or background in all life in the universe was so incredible to think about that I just ended up enjoying it all and taking time to stop as I was reading just to try to picture in my head what the author had described.

I’ve enjoyed every book I’ve read by this author, and I intend to read more and even go back and finish up the ones I have not read yet.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.