Science Fiction
From Goodreads:
The fact
that someone had decided I would be safer on Mars, where you could still only
SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that
the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.
I’d been
worried I was about to be told that my mother’s spacefighter had been shot
down, so when I found out that I was being evacuated to Mars, I was pretty
calm.
And
despite everything that happened to me and my friends afterwards, I’d do it all
again. because until you’ve been shot at, pursued by terrifying aliens, taught
maths by a laser-shooting robot goldfish and tried to save the galaxy, I don’t
think you can say that you’ve really lived.
If the same thing happens to you,
this is my advice: ALWAYS CARRY DUCT TAPE.
The sentence where 12-year-old
Alice is being sent to Mars because the ice is getting close to her school sets
the tone for Mars Evacuees. From
that point on there is none stop action and adventure. Of course Alice and
friends end up overcoming almost impossible odds while helping save two races.
I loved how active Alice and
friends were in solving their problems.
It was kind of like MacGyver meets Mars and a lot of the fixes involved
Duct Tape. There is also a new take on aliens taking over the Earth that adds
more interest to the story.
The character development, world
building and plot keeps the story moving.
The writing moves the story
line smoothly without any of those annoying breaks that stop a story As I came to the end it looked like
this was the start of a new series but it does come to a satisfying conclusion
with the Epilogue.
Mars Evacuees is a story that
readers from pre-teens to adult will enjoy.
Harper Collins published Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall in 2014.
I received an ARC of Mars Evacuees from Edelweiss in return
for a honest review.
