Summary:Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.
Then her mother is arrested.
The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth dwellers. Training is brutal, but it’s where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider.
Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: that’s the plan. Until Phaet’s logically ordered world begins to crumble...
My Thoughts:
I was really excited to read this book BECAUSE IT'S DYSTOPIAN AND TAKES PLACE ON THE MOON. I am a huge fan of books/movies/TV shows set in space, so I picked it up off the library shelf and decided to read it. The beginning was a little boring, but it got better a little farther into the book. It swore a few times. The end/near the end/the middle was surprising. AFTER ALL SHE DOES TO SAVE HER MOTHER, HER MOTHER IS EXECUTED???? WHY??? It leaves her siblings and herself without parents, since her father died. But why does Phaet abandon her family to go to Earth? It leaves off on a cliffhanger, so there's probably going to be a sequel.
My Rating: 3 or 4 stars
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