- Title: Phobos, English title: Ascension
- Author: Victor Dixen
- Published date: November 24th 2016
- Genre: YA, Science-Fiction
- Series: Phobos
- Pages: 370
Synopsis:
Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world’s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.
Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones.
She has signed up for glory.
She has signed up for love.
She has signed up for a one-way ticket.
Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets.
Review:
I really enjoyed this book. It is somewhat an original story. You don’t see blind dates in space that often. The concept wasn’t boring at all, it was exciting until the very end and it made me curious for the next book, especially because you don’t know who Léonor is going to end up with.
In the beginning, it takes time to know the characters. You don’t know much about the characters and you only follow the perspective of Léonor ( the main) and on earth. Because of Léonor, you can also see the characteristics of the female astronauts and two males -Marcus and Mozart. Andrew, the person on earth, gives us information about the manipulative Serena and their life.
The book reads very fast and there are also little pictures in this book about the spaceship and tables about the love lists. That was original. And the villain is really good at being bad. She is different than most enemies. The story itself is agreeable. the writing style may be simple for some people.
There was one thing that annoyed the hell out of me: Our main character. She was fun at the beginning but then she got her mistrust in everybody and she suspected everyone. She was so crazy sometimes and cringy omg. Luckily the other characters neutralized her craziness. (I have read the next books and there Léonor is back to normal fortunately).
I will definitely recommend this book if you like romance and science-fiction. It is worth it. I already uploaded the rest of the reviews of this series, but I wanted the full series on the blog, so here you go. You can read the reviews of the other books on my blog ( button reviews)
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