Marsbound

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Call Number: Science Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first.--From publisher description.

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Not bad, but there are better books out there submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 12, 2018, 9:07pm This was a fine book, but in the pantheon of all SF out there, I just didn't feel like it added anything that new.

It's told first-person by an 18 year old (unfortunately for my perspective, since I just recently read Scalzi's Zoe's Tale) who often seems much more juvenile than her age and situation suggest to me. It's filled with little science-y facts that sometimes felt like the real way a teen would tell someone about space, and sometimes felt like "See! I, the author, really did my research and can imagine this!"

The plot progresses from setup to boring space journey to life on the station with important person out to get her to meet aliens and some surprising and some mildly unbelievable things happen (the importance of the then-21 year old is plausible in the story, but still a stretch).

Anyway, despite all these complaints, it was a fine story. There's just so much good stuff out there that I wouldn't displace something higher up on my reading list for this one.