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Fans of Ender's Game and The Maze Runner will love this smart sci-fi debut and its sequel, Dove Exiled!
Phaet Theta’s Plan: Live peacefully in the lunar colony, work hard, become a scientist, and enjoy a quiet future off the government’s radar. Then her mother is arrested.
The New Plan: Enlist in the militia, learn everything she can from top trainee Wes, and become the youngest Militia Captain in history so she can save her family. It all seems perfect. Until Phaet’s logically ordered world begins to crumble…
* With all-new Q&A and Playlist from Karen Bao! *
“Fans of The 5th Wave, Divergent, and Legend will love this smart, futuristic thriller.”—Justine
“Bao writes a brilliant new YA heroine in a world of true science fiction.”—Bustle.com
“Fans of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game…should flock to this well-written debut.”—SLJ
- Sales Rank: #197383 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-05
- Released on: 2016-01-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .87" w x 5.40" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up—Set on the Moon in the not-so-distant future, this series opener follows an introverted teenager who has spent her life working hard and obeying the rules of the Committee, the governing body of the Moon. Water has been scarce and money is tight, but Phaet and her mother always find a way to provide for her little brother and sister since Phaet's father's death nine years earlier. When the teen's mother is quarantined, however, it is up to her to find a way to keep her family out of the filthy, poverty-stricken district known as "Shelter." Though it means deferring her dream of studying to become a scientist, the protagonist decides to join the Moon's Militia. If she can finish her training at the top of her class, she will become the youngest Militia Captain in history. Competition is fierce, and Phaet will need to work harder than ever before and learn everything she can from the top trainee, a quiet boy named Wes, who often seems more machine than human. Perceptive readers will recognize a burgeoning romance between the pair. Characters are well developed, especially strong-willed Phaet, and an even pace will keep teens turning pages. Fans of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (Tor, 1985), Veronica Roth's Divergent (HarperCollins, 2011) and Marie Lu's Legend (Putnam, 2011) should flock to this well-written debut effort by 19-year-old Bao.—Liz Overberg, Darlington School, Rome, GA
Review
“Karen Bao is an incredibly talented young writer. Beautiful prose and one of the most interesting main characters I've read. Dove Arising marks the debut of a promising new talent. I loved the story, and I can't wait to read more!” —Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
“Newcomer Bao’s off-world setting and world-building details are intriguing.”—Publishers Weekly
"Characters are well developed, especially strong-willed Phaet, and an even pace will keep teens turning pages. Fans of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Marie Lu’s Legend should flock to this well-written debut effort by 19-year-old Bao." —School Library Journal
"Until just recently, the number of formidable young adult authors who got published before they were out of their teens was extremely small: Christopher Paolini and Isamu Fukui. Well, it is time to make room for a third name in this elite list: Karen Bao." —VOYA
“The 20-year-old Bao writes a brilliant new YA heroine in a world of true science fiction.” —Bustle.com
“Phaet is a compelling, ‘do what needs doing’ kind of girl, and her desperation to succeed and secure her family’s future is palpable…Revelations at the end pave the way for a sequel.”—Booklist.com
“Fans of The 5th Wave, Divergent, and Legend will love this smart, futuristic thriller.” —Justine
About the Author
Karen Bao (karenbao.com) is a writer, musician, and aspiring scientist. She has a brother three years younger than her and a violin sixty years older than her. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen.
Follow her on Twitter @KarenJBao.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Way too many problems, gave up before the end
By B. Capossere
Dove Arising is a new YA from Karen Bao, and one which I persevered through despite a host of issues, until I reached the last fifth or so when things really began to go off the rails. I pushed on, admittedly skimming a bit, thinking I’m this far in I can finish, but the cumulative effect was just too much and I ended up giving up about forty pages from the end.
The setting is one of a series of bases on the moon, in a future where Earth is under the domination of two floating city-states and their respective alliances, and in a cold-war (that occasionally heats up) relationship with the moon bases. Phaet, a 15-year-old girl, has her life turned upside down when her mother is taken away for quarantine and then later arrested for “disruptive print,” as the bases system is a bit dictatorial (ruled by a committee, constant surveillance, prohibitions on speech). To pay for the medical and legal bills, Phaet enlists in the militia, where she needs to rise high in the ranks to keep her mom out of prison and her siblings out of the hell that is “Shelter” — the place where the poor are dumped.
As mentioned, there were a host of issues. The world building is shallow and never feels fully thought out or like an actual working system; instead it feels like a hodgepodge of dystopias and YA sci-fi, crossing over at times into being entirely derivative; it’ll be easy to spot bits of Ender’s Game, Divergent, and Hunger Games here. There’s the requisite young love and potential triangle, which if done well could just be a trope of the genre but here feels wholly flat and perfunctory. None of the characters have any life to them; side characters are completely flat while Phaet just basically moves along through the plot with little sense of personality or individuality. And her smooth arc through the military training was just wholly implausible, and to be honest, its conclusion was simply nonsensical. As for the last bit of the book, it just wholly spins out of control, with plot moves that make no sense or again, are completely implausible, character actions appearing out of nowhere, people and systems behaving nothing like people and systems would. It’s a rushed, chaotic, unbelievable swirl of events involving characters I just don’t care about who long ago left the real world.
To be honest, that this book was published and has a strong YA push is just depressing to me. Dove Arising felt less like a book for young teens than one written by a young teen. I don’t fault the author, who I’m sure put her heart and soul into creating something, but I do blame an industry that is happy to spit out formulaic poorly written, immature books in the apparent belief that “it’s just for kids—they’ll read anything like the last thing they read.” Not recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Don't waste your time
By Cheryl Koch
The idea of this story taking place on the Moon was what got me excited to want to check this book out. Yet, I got to chapter 6 and put the book down. I walked away from it with no problems. In fact, I read about half a dozen other books before I decided to pick this one up again and give it one more chance. Although I could not remember a thing about the story from the past 6 chapters, I had no desire to go back and re-read them. Instantly, what turned me off was how catty and unlikable the rest of the students with Phaet were. Second, I was not getting a sense of what this book really was about. There seemed to be a lot of talking with unlikable characters. So after skimming the next 5 chapters I gave up on this book and said enough. I don't care what happens to Phaet or what she learns.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Did Not Finish
By Angela
I was so excited and looking forward to reading this book, and was beyond excited when I was approved through the Penguin First to Read program. Ultimately there were a few too many issues for me to enjoy this book.
I really should start re-reading the summary blurbs before starting the book - it might save me a lot of concerns and issues. Instead, I spent the first 15% irritated that the main character, Phaet, hadn't said a single word or responded in any sort of way to anyone that spoke to her. Even so, I'll buy the selective-mute aspect of her personality, especially in a society where the likelihood of someone listening is always high, but there could have been some sort of response. Instead she just internally mused, endlessly. Someone asks a question, she thinks about it. Someone states something, she considers it. Someone requests, she contemplates. Then she randomly starts speaking, still sparsely, but it was already beyond irritating to me. I'm not a huge fan of always being in someone's head, hearing about what things are happening and not feeling like we're participating in the scenes as they're happening. There's also the fact that Phaet prickly personality reminded me a lot of Katniss (The Hunger Games) and it's not the first similarity I noted to other books.
The world-building felt patched together. There's a world where people have given up their essential freedoms in order to be kept "safe" on this Lunar colony. But the liberties that have been supplanted are random and don't make sense for a society that is truly concerned with the number of population. There's no regulation on the number of children, or mating ages/rules. There's rent and Committee fees, food costs, and low paying jobs. There are ridiculous laws against any number of things, and there's Big Brother watching all the time through their handscreens - which also provide convenient information about other characters.
Both characters and world, if not done well, are enough to make it so I don't enjoy a book. However, this book also had the issue of not having an actual plot. Phaet ends up at a Militia training facility, trying to earn enough money to support her family and save her mother, but there's no real inducement to any of her actions. She's kind of just going along, doing the bare minimum that she has to do - until she has to do more. Even so, it never feels really necessary. It's just one girl's struggle, and honestly I kept waiting for the moment when "Phaet's logically ordered world begins to crumble..." But by 41% into the book there was just...nothing.
Back to those similarities that I was mentioning - Phaet's personality reminds me a lot of Katniss, the training reminds me a lot of Tris' in Divergent, the unrequited love interest (as her oldest friend) reminds me a lot of Gale and Katniss' dynamic. Then there's the new boy, who's quiet and mysterious and trying to help Phaet out....and he just might have feelings for her that are a bit more, which - of course - reminds me of Peeta. I could draw comparisons to scenes that I've seen in Ender's Game about the simulations of ship battles.
There's just nothing there to keep me wanting to read on. I do wish I knew what happened, or if there was something worth continuing for, but not enough to keep pushing myself through a book that's doing nothing to hook me.
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