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Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures Amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

Angela Naimou

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Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the...

Hazel (1853 KP) rated Polaris Awakening (Polaris Anthology, #1) in Books

Dec 17, 2018

This eBook was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Polaris Awakening is a young adult science fiction anthology containing several short stories about the human race thousand of years from now where everyone lives aboard giant space stations. Polaris is a collaborative project between numerous authors that are rising up in the young adult world: Kelli Sheridan, E. Latimer, Erica Crouch, Janna Jennings, Hannah Davies, Terra Harmony and Meghan Jashinky. Although each story is different, they all revolve around Polaris – the largest human built space station in the universe.

Despite the different authors’ input, it could be easily believed that only one person wrote the anthology, as their writing styles are so similar. Whilst being labeled as science fiction, there are a lot of themes throughout the book such as a dystopian setting, social and political injustice, romance and violence. There are many strong male and female characters, which make these stories suitable to readers of both genders. The main characters are roughly the same age as the target audience thus generating appropriate language and scenarios for young adults to read and become interested in.
Naturally, some of the stories are better than others. Some are so full of action and suspense, making the reader want to stay with those characters forever, whereas others feel rather short and incomplete. What happens to those certain individuals once they are off the page?

Whilst reading this book I kept thinking about a novel that was recently published: Way Down Dark by J. P. Smythe. The plots of these short stories were very similar to the general story line portrayed within that book. The setting was almost the same as the spacecraft written about by Smythe. If you enjoy this anthology, I am sure you would also love Way Down Dark, and vice versa.