Hero Regan has been treated as 'special' all her life, most infuriatingly of all by her mother. She's tired of it. It's not as if she's dangerous or something just because of a few voices in her head, is it? And with Fink, her telepathic 600 kilo wooly companion to protect her, she's hardly likely to be harmed by others.
She dreams of one day working groundside on the planet Jorn and living on her own terms. To prove her mettle to do that job she'd have to win the illegal, dangerous barrier races. If her mother found out about her ever being in such races, she'd send Fink to the dreaded Farm from where he might not return. Anyway you can't race without a team, and for a team you need to have at least one friend in your life. Then Hero meets Norah, also on the outer due to her own 'specialness', and her flying adder companion, Horace. They're experienced racers. Hero grabs the chance.
While the book is aimed at YA readers, everyone can feel for both Hero and her mother during their furious standoffs, neither sharing enough information to connect with the other. But soon keeping the racing a secret from their parents - and Jorn's police- becomes just one of the Norah and Hero's difficulties difficulties. Why is the City computer Librarian intervening in Hero's life with hints of old conspiracies and even blackmailing her? What is her mother's bio-tech company actually up to? And what is happening to her mind when pent up emotions come off her in waves? Hero's behaviour exasperates her minders, and often the reader too; and it causes a rift with Norah. She pushes on seeking answers but each one has a cost and seems to make things worse. (Note to parents: if you're going to ground your child, don't let her roam in your genetics-splicing lab doing experiments.)
This exciting science fiction tale throws you into an imaginatively well-constructed and plausible world without miring you in technical descriptions. After a line or two to give you each new idea, you're off again, racing among the sky-towers and praying there are no blue-outs, dodging the minders (just who are they working for?), avoiding hostile cliques at the school, arguing with parents, getting frustrated with the canny Librarian, and hoping against hope Fink can fight off the giant roaches in the tunnels. Along the way we also look at the possibilities that genetic engineering could give rise to: what choices will humanity one day, or even now, accept as 'good', and how much of it could turn out to be disastrous.
That said, I really want a ruc-pard of my own.
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