Waiting on Wednesday: Dove Arising by Karen Bao

DOVE ARISING
By: Karen Bao
Publication Date: August 19,2014

First of all, that cover is GORGEOUS… It’s what drew me to this one in the first place because you guys know I’m a cover girl! BUT THEN … then I read the summary and I’m completely excited about what this is about! Plus I’m always looking for new Sci-Fi YA!! I can’t believe I have to wait until August for this!!

SUMMARY

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.

Then her mother is arrested.

The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth-dwellers. Training is brutal, but it’s where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider.

Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: that’s the plan. Until Phaet’s logically ordered world begins to crumble…

Haunting and prescient, Dove Arising heralds the emergence of a bold new voice in science fiction.

ABOUT KAREN

Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring scientist. She has a brother three years younger than her and a violin sixty years older than her. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen.