The Iamos Trilogy: Fourth World | Lyssa Chiavari
Published by: Snowy Wings Publishing, December 28th 2015
Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Time Travel
Pages: 338
Format: Ebook
Source: Author, via Netgalley
Life on Mars isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're Isaak Contreras. Ever since his dad disappeared two years ago, Isaak's been struggling to keep up in school, and he never seems to be able to live up to his mom's high expectations. But everything changes when he finds an ancient coin among his missing father's possessions. The coin makes him a target of both the Martian colonial government and a crazed scientist with a vendetta--and it leads him to a girl from another time named Nadin, who believes that Isaak might just hold the key to saving both their worlds. That is, if they can survive long enough to use it...
Life on Mars isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're Isaak Contreras. Ever since his dad disappeared two years ago, Isaak's been struggling to keep up in school, and he never seems to be able to live up to his mom's high expectations. But everything changes when he finds an ancient coin among his missing father's possessions. The coin makes him a target of both the Martian colonial government and a crazed scientist with a vendetta--and it leads him to a girl from another time named Nadin, who believes that Isaak might just hold the key to saving both their worlds. That is, if they can survive long enough to use it...
I really, really love the archaeology/geology bits of this book, and I wasn't expecting them at all. I thought it'd be a pretty typical space book (which, lets be fair, I love SO MUCH) so I was totally surprised to find all the excavation and the mystery (and the doorway/gate stuff, which made this book so much cooler!)
The first half of Fourth World is by far my favourite. I'm still not sure if I actually like the citidome parts - I was really wishing for more excavation, wanting to go back to that even though the sinister controlling forces of Iamos were really compelling and I liked Nadin's journey. I much prefer Isaak to Nadin, though (maybe why I prefer the first half...) and found it a bit hard to connect with her.
Overall, I really enjoyed this sci-fi thriller, and its inventive and creative colonisation of Mars!
Characters ★★★☆☆
Setting/world ★★★★☆
Writing ★★★★☆
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