Here's my 5* review of Exiles by Daniel Blythe.
*** Sci fi survival ***
A community of teens and tweens stranded on an alien planet. What a perfect way to begin a sci fi tale.
Exiles by Daniel Blythe is a long read but absolutely worth it. There’s a lot of characters but the author made sure that none of them were forgettable. Neither was the world they inhabited, from the sci fi technology and drones, to the alien planet with its blue sand and animals they hunt, and the political differences in the rest of the universe.
I massively enjoyed reading Exiles. I wanted to know what these young people were going to face next, especially Mia and Maddi. I have to admit that I didn’t really like Beth until the final struggle began, but the way she unsettled the balance of Town was brilliantly developed.
All in all, if you like sci fi, tales of survival, and YA, read Exiles. What’s even better is that the story continues in the next novel, Voyagers.
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The blurb:
In Daniel Blythe’s science fiction epic, Exiles, Bethany Kane escapes the catastrophic failure of the colony ship on which she was born and makes landfall in an escape pod on a windswept world known as The Edge. She is light years from civilisation in more ways than one. Battered and shaken, she soon finds she is not alone.
A teenaged group find her and take her back to where they live and work in some semblance of society. They call it Town. It sits on a converted scientific base in the shadow of a crashed spaceship.
Beth struggles to adjust to her new life, beset by fears but desperate to learn new skills and earn the respect of the others, in particular the leader Zach, and the resentful Mia.
When a terrible, violent event shatters the colony’s existence, fragile ties and loyalties are breached. Is every one of them clinging to a secret? And just how isolated are they really?
