annieice's Reviews (791)


 This is a Middle-Grade fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, mystery novel set in the year 2448 in the Moon colony. A disaster happened to Earth or how it's not called The Old World where poisonous plants made it inhabitable (plus other natural and non-natural disasters too) so humans went out in the galaxy to live on different planets and moons. Myra is in SLAM which is a school for magical sciences as a Number Whisperer, even though she doesn't really have that kind of magic, her parents who do, expected her to. She just wants to stay alone and continuously skips class to keep it a secret. One such day of skipping class she comes across a garden. But there's no such thing anymore since the Old World days. She starts to connect with it and wishes of showing it to the whole galaxy so they have organic food to eat.
This was a brilliant idea, with awesome writing, interesting characters, magic being like science. I loved it! The idea of having some kinds of tattoos isn't really unique but still worked out so cool. I really liked being with Myra and seeing her open up to friends and finding herself out. Just brilliant. Especially the cover, it is gorgeous! Also really liked the whole involvement of STEM, and how interesting it felt to read gardening and botany be described this way. The only thing that bothered me was the whole moon years, it felt weird. Especially considering how the MC is 12 but is that in earth or moon years, because if it's moon years that makes zero sense...