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This is a really unique book!

The main character, Adra, is already from the future and she along with her family are put to sleep in order to be awakened on a new planet. Something goes wrong, however, and she wakes up a thousand years later with everyone she knows dead. I thought that the author did a really good job of showing how emotional this loss was for Adra, especially being so young and now having to fend for herself. We revisit her family and her relationship with them through dreams and memories, so I appreciated how that storyline wasn’t just dropped. Adra is considered a goddess by the new society, which is what saves her, but it also puts her in danger as she is required to provide miracles and not everyone is happy about her goddess statue. She meets Zhade, one of the people who wakes her up, who is an exiled prince and has his own complicated family dynamic. Both of them are using the other for their own gains.

One thing that was both interesting and frustrating (I think it was the right choice for the book but didn’t necessarily make for easy reading!) is that all of the characters aside from Adra speak this form of mangled English, and during Zhade’s chapters it even becomes part of the narrative and not just when he speaks. I have to say, this book didn’t fully captivate me until near the end, but the ending made me excited for the next book in the series.

Fans of lighter world building sci-fi like Star Wars will enjoy this one.