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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Finally finished my re-read of Last Stand of Dead Men and am now halfway into Earth Flight by Janet Edwards, the final book in her Earth Girl trilogy. Really enjoying this a lot - so far it's been well worth the wait.
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And finished it last night - it's a book full of stuff I'd generally sneer at (a very obvious "message" of racism/prejudice is bad, some rather corny-sweet romance - both of those things aren't exactly
bad things obviously but I usually prefer more subtlety in my reading) but you know how sometimes the things you generally sneer at in other books just
work? The
Earth Girl trilogy is like that for me - I really ended up loving it.
It just felt so very refreshingly different from the recent generic "cocky girl is special and the fate of the world hangs on her but she meets handsome, mysterious bad boy and the rest of the plot is shoved aside from there on" trend in YA. Yes, there's romance, but with an actual nice guy, and the plot is never forgotten. Plus it was just nice to read a YA series that is set in a believable future (28th century Earth and Earth colonies) with plenty of fun but practical and realistic-feeling technology. There aren't a lot of books like these, especially with female protagonists.
I'm just sorry it was only a trilogy, but I'll be reading whatever the author writes next.