First, they’re being chased by a super-powered BeiTech ship determined to get rid of all witnesses to the planet takeover. Whenever I hear the name, my brain just immediately jumps to this:Īnyway, while they’re on this journey they have to deal with a whole lot of crappy circumstances. Part of the population manages to flee into space and it begins to try and make its way to a space station called the Heimdall for assistance.

BAM the planet gets attacked by some super evil mega corporation called BeiTech because they want to take over its illegal mining operations. In book 1, we’re introduced to Kady and Ezra, two teens who used to date and whose relationship is currently a little on the awkward side.

I realise now that I should probably outline the first instalment in the series, Illuminae before I write about the second book so here goes. But for those who still haven’t read it and have actually managed to track down this review, I’ll do my best to keep the spoilers to a minimum. The epic world building and characters had me hooked from the very beginning and although this is not a short book, I just couldn’t put it down.Considering Gemina came out back in October of last year, I’m a little bit behind on the times in both reading and reviewing it but I’m going to do it anyway because I want to. So I’m kind of hoping he’ll get the chance to show off the advanced technology of his people in the next book. I felt like North made most of the concessions to suspend his belief when it came to Nimh’s magic and his technology was almost brushed off as ‘magic’.

The way he just showed up, demanded whatever attention he needed and left again was SO REALISTIC. 😄 As well as being a book about a fight for survival, The Other Side of the Sky did such a fantastic job of hi-lighting the differences in culture between the sky and land people. I am a huge sucker for animal companions in books and the Bindle Cat had my whole heart with his very cat like attitude and behaviour. I really loved this unique part of the storyline. I was initially a little scared to start The Other Side of the Sky, because it sounded very romance-y, and I don’t really do romance books, so I was not prepared for how much I would love it! According to the laws of her divinity, Nimh can’t be touched, so that brought an entirely new aspect to the growing feelings between the pair.

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