Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi OhMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I went into this one not knowing much about it, except that it was a spacefaring story set on a generation ship. It wound up surprising me immensely with how excellently readable it was, following a group of British teens training for years for a mission to be the first to set foot on a potentially habitable planet only a few solar systems away. It's an alternate history, too, similar to For All Mankind, where space exploration is significantly more advanced - the story begins in 2012, where by this time there are Americans on the Moon and Russians on Mars. As much as I flew through this book, however, its focus on characters meant that the story took a hell of a long time to reach a conclusion of sorts, and even then, it felt like there wasn't much closure. Also, while the vast majority of these teenagers were bogged down by drama and self destruction, there was one in particular who was so horrible as to deserve a particularly painful comeuppance that, sadly, never comes about. But the character focus leads to such strong and memorable chemistry between these teens - even if they make bad decision after bad decision - and helps boost this from a 3.5 to a 4 star rating easily.
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