This was one of the three books included in that 3-in-1 that I bought over the summer that got me hooked on the Deltora books and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. At first, I rather dismissed it as being a little ridiculous. I checked to see if I could get the rest of the books at the library, which I can't, and sort of shifted it out of my thinking.
It keeps coming back.
I don't know if that means that it's a good book after all or if there's something that is just calling to me. Maybe my completionist soul is pestering me for leaving the series uncompleted. I don't know but I can't stop thinking about it.The premise of the story is that the top scientists discover an asteroid heading towards earth that will most certainly destroy the planet. No avoiding it, it's going to happen and soon too. So, in a rather desperate act, they cobble together a space craft with a lot of untested technology, fill it up with a bunch of influential people and their families, and aim it at a star that probably has habitable planets orbiting around it. That's book one. I'm over simplifying it of course. The protagonists are a group of teens and pre-teens.
Actually, I think it's the characters that are drawing me in. I've never really liked planet killing asteroid stories. I always find them deeply disturbing. They make me feel helpless and small.
Of course, we are all helpless and small when viewed on that scale.
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