Title: Aurora Rising
Author: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Published: 6 May 2019
Series: The Aurora Cycle #1
Rating: 5 stars
Synopsis:
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
Nobody panic.
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
Nobody panic.
While I may not have reviewed this book that long ago (almost a year and a half ago now), I also have a memory like a sieve. Having a memory like a sieve and also having the next book in my possession, I decided to re-read Aurora Rising. Plus it's always nice to see how your thoughts and views of books changes over the years.
So... On to the good stuff!
This time, I listened to this as an audiobook.
I loved that different characters were narrated by different people. I adore Kal's voice though - a voice like honey! The only, very minor, downside to the narration is that when the chapter is in Scarlett's point of view and Kal says something to her, it isn't said b the Kal narrator but the Scarlett narrator trying to do the different voice. It doesn't detract from the story too much, but it's just something that I noticed.
If your squad was hard to find, or you're still looking, then this one is for you.
Character-wise, I still love Scarlett's sass, humour and sarcasm plus Fin's sarcasm too! Maybe it's just me relating to them because of how sarcastic I can be sometimes though, but I'm not entirely sure.
I adore the word be'shmai and what it means... Makes my heart melt a little every time Kal says it. (Once again, if you want to find out what I'm on about with this part, then read the book. You won't regret it!)
I also like how there's info pages between every few chapters at the beginning of the book though as it breaks it up a little and gives you a touch more info, plus the different font that they use for the texting they did with one another. I still think it's Magellan giving us some information to help our brains keep up with the story and to add some fun into it too.
I sort of hope that we find out in Aurora Burning (the next book) what happened to Zila when she was 6 as I'm curious, but also worried about her. I just wish I could protect every one of my precious Squad members. I don't think I trust the with Jay and Amie after what they do to my heart during every book I read from them!
...but will I continue reading every single thing they publish? 100% yes.
Thoughts that I still have after re-reading this book:
- "Insulting their mothers. Just don't." I still want to know the story behind that! Who insulted who's mother to make that a thing?! What happened afterwards?
- Why would you rub your hands against the moss to clean them?! (Another reason to read Aurora Rising if you haven't yet: to find out what the hells I'm talking about here.)
Hold onto your undies, kids.
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All books in this series:
1 | Aurora Rising
2 | Aurora Burning
All books in this series:
1 | Aurora Rising
2 | Aurora Burning
