The Final Six

I really enjoyed this book for several reasons:
• A strong mystery that made it very hard to put down.
• A well written, slowly developing non-cliché romance
• A well written ethnically Persian character (a relief after a previous example).

This felt like a rush in the best sense. I wanted to find out what was going to happen and before I knew it I'd reached the end desperate to uncover more of the mystery and to follow the characters further in their stories.

I'm going to be grabbing book two and finding out more about this author.

This is pretty OK. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. I might read the second book, though, because that's when it seems like things will get interesting.

This book is set completely on an environmentally devastated earth as the young would-be astronauts train and compete for their place on a mission to Europa. There's far less intrigue during their training than I expected and the outcomes are completely predictable. And because they stay on earth, the big mystery that I'm mostly interested in barely comes up.

But the main characters are pretty enjoyable. And it does set up the next book in an interesting way.