What happens when a single moment changes everything? For 17-year-old Cheney, life on Earth exists only in history books. The life he and over 1,000 other people know is aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave.
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What happens when a single moment changes everything? For 17-year-old Cheney, life on Earth exists only in history books. The life he and over 1,000 other people know is aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave.
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Catherine Jinks put together quite an enjoyable tale here.
Imagine that you are 17 years old on a pioneering space ship, traversing the stars in search of a new home world. Your ship is a living entity of delicately balanced alloys and bacteria, self cleaning and self repairing.
You are at the birthday bash of another crew member, when alarms are tripped. Within 24 hours, you have to watch as the people you love die. This is very much a coming of age story, but in fast forward. Moving quickly from a strategic and heavily monitored existence to self reliance in order to survive.
A couple plot holes found but nothing that can not be easily disregarded.
In the end, this was not a challenging read, taking me the equivalent of one and a half days transit to and from work to make it through (2-3 hours). The concepts were clear and concise. The conversational manner manner and tone of characters was believable. I did not feel as if Jinks was talking down to me as a reader, instead attempting to coax to the reading level she needed. Very smooth in that manner. nice work Jinks!
Living Hell has excellent flow and character development. This is so much the case that it was not until i had read about a third of the book in that I realized it was technically a young adult novel. It was fast, fun, and in the end, I did not find that I had the ending figured out in advance. This is a huge bonus when it comes to YA fiction as much of it is fairly formulaic and predictable :)
Jinks originally published this in 2007, but the copy I read was published 4/12/2010, this is likely the difference between an Aussie release vs US edition.
Note to the cover illustrator, Cameron Davis: bad ass cover art! nice work there :)
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Catherine Jinks is an Australian born author of over 30 books. She is not genre focused or dependent on a specific blend to get it tight and feel right. Check out her site for a full bio and list of both Teen and adult books ? catherinejinks.com -
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Original review published on my site: FNORDinc.com
