FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF YA FICTION CARRYN W. KERR
At five years old, Cassidy had outlived almost Earth’s entire population. Now, at sixteen, she’s in a forbidden relationship with an unworthy Earth boy.
Cassidy Jones was five years old when her parents escaped Earth with her and her brother. They were safe in Earth’s orbit in the town of Petriville—hovering at the center of an indestructible … center of an indestructible sphere—when the meteor impacted Earth and killed Cassidy’s grandparents, aunt and cousin.
But now, eleven years later, Gina Petri, Petriville’s founder, assigns a mate to each youth. When Cassidy refuses to participate in this forced mating, her dissent places her and her family in Gina’s firing line. This becomes especially pertinent when Cassidy enters a communication pod and meets an alluring hologram. Eric isn’t in Petriville and he insists Gina will murder his people if she discovers their existence, because he is one of Earth’s few survivors.
The more Cassidy gets to know Eric, the more she’s drawn to him—and the feeling seems mutual. He has lost so much in his life and her compassion for him runs deep. Despite the intensity of the static electricity when Cassidy and the hologram of Eric touch, she yearns for the day when she will meet him in person.
All the questions will be answered when Petriville returns to Earth, and that day is quickly approaching…
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The Renascent World is a very interesting post apocalyptic/space travel read. The world that our main character Cassidy lives in is very unique with the small population, animals and rules. I was fascinated to see how these segregated people live separate from all the normal temptations of life. Life on Earth is not supposed to be possible and yet Cassidy meets Eric, there begins our story.
I liked the book and read it to the end. There was constant action and surprises popping up along the way. The amount of twists was shocking! There were times I was frantically flipping because my characters were in a particular sticky situation. The story was written well. I only have two things that stuck out to me as odd.
One, I am not sure if the way I interpreted Cassidy and Eric’s relationship is correct. It is insta love with these two, which felt like the typical Romeo and Juliet relationship. They meet each other a few times and “love” each other right off the bat. They don’t have particularly deep conversations apart from maybe one time. They don’t laugh together or know anything that is important to the other one. I didn’t believe they actually loved each other. Perhaps the author wanted to convey a typical teenage romance. If so, it was done perfectly. I honestly wanted Cassidy to be with Jonas. He was her friend her whole life. They go through some seriously tough times together where he steps up and protects her. I see where he would love her and how she would fall for him. And yet, Cassidy wouldn’t look twice at him? Why is Eric so much better? Jonas actually worked with her as a partner rather than just telling her what to do like Eric did.
Two, the brother sister relationship was odd to me. Okay, they are in a futuristic setting. There is no crime, death, or anything wicked (so they think), going on. I see where brother and sister wouldn’t be like a modern day pair. But, I have two older brothers and they never would act the way Liam did. I found him a little ridiculous. Anytime Liam was with Cassidy he was nothing but supportive. Even when she was messing up and putting her whole family’s life in danger her brother was amazing about it. An older brother would be the one person to tell her how it is. Instead, he showered her with compliments and every scene told her he loved her. With this being said, the moment something risky is going to happen, the two don’t partner together, but instead rely on their much weaker friends. No way would a brother so dedicated just up and split. When they were about to part ways he said, “I love you very much my beautiful sister.” I burst out laughing imagining each of my brothers saying that. No realistic brother calls his sister beautiful every time he sees her and proclaims his love. It was just weird to me.
Overall, the book was just plain cool. The world Cassidy grows up in is very neat and I had no idea where the book was going. Our bad guy was just plain evil too, that is always fun.