Title: Satellite
Author: Nick Lake
Pages: 480
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Release Date: 5th October 2017
Blurb from Goodreads:
A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth.
He’s going to a place he’s never been before: home.
Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It’s also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known.
Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They’ve been “parented” by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight.
But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma? Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds.
He’s going to a place he’s never been before: home.
Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It’s also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known.
Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They’ve been “parented” by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight.
But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma? Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds.
My Review:
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Hachette Children's Group and NetGalley*
Leo was born in Moon 2, a space station that orbits the Earth. He has never set foot on Earth. Not yet.
Once
Leo is sixteen, he and his friends Orion and Libra, who are twins that
were also born in Moon 2, will be allowed to travel to Earth.
The trio can't wait for the day they escape Moon 2, but will Earth be everything they expected?
Or will they wish they'd never left?
I love space and science so I was intrigued to read Satellite.
I liked Leo. The way he saw/thought of the Earth was unique and refreshing.
I appreciated that romance wasn't a huge part of this book. There was only a minuscule amount.
The plot was interesting and held my attention. I'm not sure how plausible it was, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
I'm not sure why the space station was called Moon 2. Was the ISS Moon 1? Maybe I missed something.
The text speak did annoy me at first but then I got used to it/ignored it.
Overall this was an enjoyable read.
