Hover Series: The Taking #2 on August 13th 2013
Pages: 352
Read it as: eBook
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Synopsis
Hover by Melissa WestOn Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because in this world, pleasure is everything, held up by a ruling body that keeps their people in check by giving them what they want and closing their eyes to what's really happening around them. The only hope Loge has is to move its people to Earth, and they have a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to siege war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems...and no one can be trusted.
I’m sure I love that cover.
We’ve come a long way since E.T. in entertainment featuring aliens. *cough* Opposition *cough*, and this series is another example of it. I read Gravity, the first book, a while ago, which I’m guessing, may be the fact to blame why this book didn’t had me fangirling like I was expecting it to.
I liked this take on aliens, because people here, know about aliens. In Gravity, things were tense, everyone was on edge, and then, hell broke loose. In Hover, the setting is the alien planet of Lodge, where Ari finds herself when she wakes up. Jackson is with her, but here’s where she discovers who is Jackson truly, which is definetely not the carefree boy we met in the previous books. Danger is a very real, tangible thing and Ari gets frustrated because these things are out of her control. She makes plans but they don’t unfold the way she wants.
There is a lot of character development going in this book.
The writing…
It’s written in first person, present tense. I’m not sure if that’s for me.
Plot?
It could’ve been better. Nothing really major happened during the book, except for the end, when crap really hits the fan. :O
The romance? This is not a romance focused story, in spite of containing romance. But I liked it. It wasn’t all ‘I love you!’. In fact, there was none of that. Ari is having trouble trusting Jackson after he kept very important things from her. This is where each of them learn to do deal with it.
There are sweet moments. I loved them. :3
What as a writer, I learned:
- Internal and external conflict rocks
- Second books in trilogies need to be even more exciting than the first one.
- Exciting things need to happen regularly to accomplish that.
I have this in my backlog to read. I really enjoyed the first one — even though it goes against my usual genres. I enjoyed Melissa West’s characters and their development.
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