Why did I love this book?
She’s jarred awake from cryosleep. Get to the pods. The ship trembles. It’s crashing.
They were supposed to be in orbit, with plenty of time to wake, get reacclimated, and finish training before settling in the colony. No time now. Everything’s on fire. They’re all going to die. Anikka barely gets to the pods. And she’s the only survivor.
What happened to the Daybreak Colony? Why did the ship crash? And will she find a way to survive a planet bent on killing her?
I couldn’t turn away once the book started. Anikka proves a tenacious character, and the planet she crashes onto is richly imagined with a full biosphere and lots of surprises.
Read it if you want something like Hatchet in a science fiction setting. Worth it!
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Anikka has worked her butt off to earn a place on the Last Resort, a colony ship leaving overcrowded Earth. But instead of a peaceful trip to a new world, Anikka wakes from cryo-sleep as the Last Resort hits the atmosphere and crashes in the jungle, completely ruining her plans.
Wounded and alone except for an anxious AI, Anikka is determined to survive even when the planet itself is trying to kill her. All she has to do is get to the colony. But rising mysteries trip her every step of the way. Why did the ship crash? Why isn't…