Space Academy by Hannah Hopkins is a Sci-Fi story that is great for teens all the way to adults such as me who love a fantasy story with some realism injected into it too. We are swept into the action as soon as the book starts.
It is the year 2100 and Elsie has risked everything to get herself and her young son on board ‘The Mayflower’ a spaceship bound for a new planet. She discovers she knows the captain and is soon upgraded to the equivalent of first-class today.
Fast forward 13 years and Will, Elsie’s son, is embarking on his ‘Space Academy’ education with his friends Emily, Finley and Louis. Will begins to find out things that he never knew about his father’s death and get thrown headlong into a mystery they must solve to save human lives in the future.
Well, what a book! As I said from the beginning we are swept up into the action and I wasn’t able to let go until I had got to the last page. I did see parallels with the fantasy stories of the recent past, such as Harry Potter, but, it did not detract from my enjoyment of the story in its own right!. The characters as well as the sensitive complex topics that are part of the story are very believable and well fleshed out. Added to that a twist of an ending makes this a truly different type of Sci-Fi story for all. Thank you to Rachels Random Resources for a copy of the book in order to take part in the blog tour today.
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