Polaris

Polaris (Avalon #2) 
Author: Mindee Arnett
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Pages: 432
Genre: Young Adult,Sci-fi 
Published: January 20, 2015
Rating: 3/5 stars
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Description

Jeth Seagrave and his crew are on the run. The ITA, still holding Jeth’s mother in a remote research lab, is now intent on acquiring the metatech secrets Jeth’s sister Cora carries inside her DNA, and Jeth is desperate to find the resources he needs to rescue his mother and start a new life outside the Confederation. But the ITA is just as desperate, and Jeth soon finds himself pursued by a mysterious figure hell-bent on capturing him and his crew—dead or alive.

With nowhere to run and only one play left, Jeth enters into a bargain with the last person he ever thought he’d see again: Daxton Price, the galaxy’s newest and most fearsome crime lord. Dax promises to help Jeth, but his help will only come at a price—a price that could mean sacrificing everything Jeth has fought for until now. 

My thoughts

This review contains spoilers from the first book in this duology

This book took also a while to pick up, which I wasn’t expecting. The book is set up the same as the first. You get a small mission. Something goes wrong there, and that sets up the next adventure. I was hoping that you were immediately on the final mission and not that small mission.

The final mission kept changing. Than they were going to do this, than that. It was sometimes a bit annoying, but it is like that in real live as well. Plans changes, and there are obstacles that needs to be taken into account.

Sometimes there is too much going on. It could be confusing, but in my experience it is not so bad. But you know that no plan will go without problems, in every plan things go wrong. After a while this gets kind of irritating and predictable. In the end some things had an easy solution; things fell in place a little too easy.

The main character is a bit negative, which is understandable in his position, but all this negativity makes it look like there is no way they can fulfill their mission. This feeling stays throughout the book and left me emotionally drained. This means that the writer did a great job in making me care about these characters, maybe a bit too good of a job :P. I know that I am emphatic; this results most of the time that I feel for the characters a lot easier than most. But because this book was so hopeless, this was sometimes emotionally exhausting for me and made it sometimes hard to pick this book back up.

I still liked this book, but it wasn’t as good as the first.