Fans of retellings will enjoy this modern tale that reimagines stories of Greek gods and goddesses. Readers will share the protagonist’s curiosity about her powers and eagerness to uncover her history. In this intriguing and well-paced novel, Bayron conjures a world filled with magic and mystery. Bri quickly grasps that her new home and the biological family she never knew have many more secrets in store for her-and in those secrets may lie answers to questions that she has had all her life. When she is surprised by news of an extensive estate near Rhinebeck that she has inherited from the recently deceased Circe Colchis, her late birth mother’s sister and someone whose existence she was previously unaware of, the three of them move from Brooklyn to upstate New York. Bri is curious about the source and extent of her powers, but after some mishaps, she is more fearful of the potential harm she could bring by tapping into them, so she refrains from exploring further. She has an innate connection to plants and is even able to grow them from seeds using just her mind and hands.
Along the way, hints of the older generation's secrets are tossed out but not resolved, leaving the protagonists unsure of whom to trust and readers unsure of whose side to take.ĭesire to find out which of the proactive characters' bold moves end in disaster will leave readers clamoring for the next installment of this space saga.Ī teenager explores her magical connections to greenery and gods.īriseis Greene is a Black high schooler with magical powers that she hides from most people save her adoptive mothers, Thandie and Angie. The split narrative gives enough breathing room for a balance of introspection and high-stakes action. Ryan sets Kieran and Seth apart from standard love-triangle anchors through emphasis on their well-matched flaws. Waverly's initiative and intellect ensure that even as a prisoner she is far from a damsel in distress.
While Waverly launches a careful resistance as a captive of Pastor Anne Mather's childless ship the New Horizon, Kieran and Seth butt heads in an escalating contest for leadership over the distressed Empyrean. Waverly's hesitations about golden-boy Kieran-and curiosities about Kieran's broody rival Seth-are tossed to the wayside when an ambush leaves all of them navigating a deadly nebula of lies, schemes and misinformation. When preserving the human species through deep-space colonization, fertility is both currency and curse.Įveryone expects wedding bells for Waverly and Kieran, the eldest of the first generation conceived in space during the Empyrean's multi-decade mission to colonize New Earth.
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