Description:
Does the past really matter when you hold humanity’s future in your hands?
With just days of its thousand year journey remaining, the starship Renaissance 3 is on course to deliver its precious cargo – the last living humans – to its new planetary home. But a message from beyond the grave challenges everything that pilot Maya has been taught about her kind, and threatens the future of the entire mission.
As life aboard the Renaissance descends into chaos, Maya soon finds herself facing the decision of a lifetime.
My Review:
I found this title on a book tour. It sounded interesting, was only 0.99 cents , and a short read so decided to give it a try. All I can say is, my brain was in shock after I hit the end.
I almost didn’t finish the book as it’s written from the left, communistic point of view, and facts, as always with them, were wrong. But, once I reached the part about the “Truth”, I had to keep reading to see how Maya and the rest of her crew would handle the change to their world views.
And this is where the story really took off. Everything that transpired on the ship is exactly what’s happening in our society today. One side who are open to change and truth, against the other who are closed minded and it’s their way or no way. It’s all black and white to them. And because their ideas are threatened, they label anyone who disagrees as traitors and turn everyone else against them. I guess it’s human nature to follow the ones shouting the loudest. Even if they know that person is wrong. It’s all about fear and domination. sigh. We have so few free thinkers in our world.
In Maya and Ash’s case, growing up in a controlled environment didn’t leave them much room to become free thinkers. To question the narrative. Until Maya’s 18th birthday. At the shocking end of the story, I wondered how the dynamics of the crew would’ve changed if she’d received the “Truth” when she was supposed to, and not just before the cumulation of their journey.
I read the book in two days. The last day was most of it because I jut couldn’t stop reading and put it down. I needed to know what was next. So kudos for keeping me entrenched in the story.
However, I could definitely tell this was a self-published book. The lack of editing and some plot holes gave it away. At one point, Maya’s name was changed. smh.
If you like space colonization books and shock content, you might like the story. I recommend it and give it 4 stars.
