Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising.When Andra wakes up, she’s drowning. Not only that, but she’s in a hot, dirty cave, it’s the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When … everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists–including her family and friends–are dead. They died centuries ago, and for some reason, their descendants think Andra’s a deity. She knows she’s nothing special, but she’ll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth.
Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has other plans. Four years ago, the sleeping Goddess’s glass coffin disappeared from the palace, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he’s hoping the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne–if he can get her to play her part, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn’t actually have the power to save their dying planet, they’ll kill her.
With a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate, let alone find a way to unseat the king, especially since Zhade hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she’s woken to?
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Utterly inventive and unique, this story has more surprises in store for you than you can imagine.
Johnson’s rich, intelligent world blends sci-fi elements with palace intrigue and swoon-worthy characters in a way that is wholly unique and utterly brilliant. This book will make you laugh, make you fall in love, and then it’ll blow your mind.
Woooowwwwiiee. I did not expect these twists and turns, and I feel like I should have! The language was brilliant, the look at human evolution was scary and amazing. Five brilliant stars.
Goddess in the Machine is a YA/Sci-fi book by Lora Beth Jonhson and the first book in the serie.
Andra is in cryonic sleep for a trip that suppose to take an hundred years. When she wake up, with the impression of drowning, she’s in a dirty cave and soon learn thats its not year 2102 but 3102. She’s been sleeping for a thounsand years… Meaning that all the people she knows, other colonist and her family are dead.
For some reason, the descendant of those colonist thinks she’s a goddess. She doesn’t understand why as she’s not special but will play along while trying to figure out how to go back to Earth since the place she is, Hell-Mouth is nothing but a desert planet.
Zhade is the exile bastard prince of Eerensed. He have been looking for four years for the sleeping Goddess’s glass coffin who was stolen from the palace and hoping she will be the solution for him to take the throne back.
I have really like this book and I’m looking foward for the sequel with how the book end.
My Review of
GODDESS IN THE MACHINE
By Lora Beth Johnson
Published by @Razorbill an Imprint of Penguin RandomHouse
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This was an ultimate sci-fi book with all the power of a young woman, Andra that is known now as the “Goddess “. She was thrust 1000 years into the future with her family to colonize a new planet. But what was supposed to be 100 years in cryosleep was 1000 and her family and the rest of the colonists died a long time ago. There is fantastic world building that takes place when she awakens in a desert full of people who call her the Goddess and look to her for salvation.
Zhade the exhaled bastard Prince of Erensed has been the one watching over the Goddess in her sleep since she appeared and the one who woke her from her sleep to accompany him on a journey back to his banished Kingdom. Andra is told that there are other Goddesses like her there so she goes hoping to find some of her own people that perhaps survived. But everyone has their own interests at heart and their own plans for the Goddess.
The relationships are surprising and the twists are so real. They come upon you and bring violence and bloodshed. The communication is a little unusual to get used to as it’s an unusual take on the English language. While it may be a challenging read for younger adults, it is an all around fantastic action based read that was intriguing me non-stop.
Now the ending has me hanging and I’m desperately in need of a book two. I’m entangled in this story and will not be complete until I finish the duology. I will be sitting here counting down the days until I find out about a second book..
I wanted to love this book, and I just didn’t. I was very bored, I didn’t care about what was happening. The language in this book actually made me cringe.
I overall just didn’t like this read. I claimed this with points on bookish first, I counted down the days, I was super stoked, and I ended up dnfing it after about 100 pages and haven’t been able to pick it back up.
I’m sure a lot gets explained as you continue reading on, however I couldn’t bring myself to continue reading. My indifference was honestly alarming. I am not rating this book. If I have to, it’s a 1 star. I think that others would enjoy this book more, I just couldn’t get connected. I don’t want this to dissuade anyone from reading this book. The language reminded me a lot of the Maze Runner, and as an adult I didn’t like that book either.
Trigger Warnings: loss of family, death, murder, abuse.
The last science fiction book I read was Cinder, and I finished it a while back. I enjoyed that one, and I thought I would like this one just as much. Truth be told, it was a good book, but I wouldn’t have read it if it wasn’t for the audiobook.
The best thing about this book was, without a doubt, the main character, Andra. I had the chance to read about the main character, who wasn’t the typical female assassin. She was just a typical teenage girl who found herself in an unpleasing situation. She wasn’t the standard white and skinny girl, and I appreciated that. Andra was more on the plus-size part, and form the cover I could tell she was Asian. She also had a impulsive personality, and she knew what she wanted. Andra was a strong female protagonist, and I am all about it.
Another thing that I liked a lot about the book was the would building. It was very rich and quite gripping. A world where technology is seen as magic where the main character has to find a way to use technology and not be considered too threatening, and get killed.
I also enjoyed the fact that the disappearance of Andra’s family wasn’t just to be. Every action that happens throughout the book has something to do with Andra’s family. It shows me how deep the connection they had before going into the colonist program, and I love that about this book.
On the other hand, there were also some things I didn’t quite like. Everybody was phasing the number and the impact of the plot twists. For me, they weren’t that great. They didn’t keep me as engaged as they should. Furthermore, they bored me. Most of them were foreseeable too.
Also, I didn’t quite connect with the characters either. It might be my problem, and it may not happen to everyone, but I think it was worth mentioning.
Overall, Goddess in the Machine was a good book, but not an amazing one. I still recommend it as I think it is a valid young adult book, and I could see myself coming back for the next book in the series.
Andra, a teenager from the 2160s, is put into cryogenic stasis fulling expecting to wake up on another planet one hundred years later with her family and about a million other colonists. She is woken up in a dirty cave in 3102 by Zhade, an exiled prince. Society has devolved and the remnants of tech that remain are considered magic. Andra is considered a Goddess.
Andra must navigate palace politics and survive in this strange future. Zhade has his own agenda – taking his rightful place on the throne. This is one of the best YA sci-fi books I have every read. It is clever, intelligent and full twists. Andra is an amazing character. Faced with adversity, instead of having a massive meltdown, she problem-solves while adhering to her moral code. Goddess in the Machine makes you think about what defines humanity and what the future may hold. It is one of those books that stays with you. I’m really hoping there is a sequel.
Ok, so it took me until the middle of the book to get into it. The part that really bothered me was that the people from the future used a different gibberish language. So, you had to assume what they meant with what they said Once you get passed that hiccup then the story gets interesting enough to keep you engaged and reading till the end.
BookishFirst First Impression Based on Preview: This sounds like a really interesting story and I hope to read more of this book in the future. The characters all seem well written so far with potential and I want to learn more about them. The cover also looked really interesting.