Jay Kristoff, Amy Kaufman: Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1) |Lara

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From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.


Aurora Rising is the first book in Kaufman and Kristoff’s science-fiction YA trilogy called The Aurora Cycle. It's 2380 and Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley (I know, there’s a lot of Aurora’s, but don’t worry you’ll catch it all up xd) has just woke up from cryo-sleep two hundred and thirty-seven years later than she should have. Namely, she and her family were supposed to be part of the colonization program from earth to Octavia – one of the newfound planets in the Milky Way. The last thing she remembers was a fight with her dad after which followed a huge explosion after which she remembers absolutely nothing. She was saved by Tyler Jones – Aurora Academy’s star student and captain to be. Aurora serves as an intergalactic peace force between different species of the system. Terrans – as people from the Earth. Betraskans – who are another alien race people from earth came across. Sydralathi – ancient, elf-like creatures, with porcelain white skin and pointy ears whose lifespan can last up to several hundred years.

Aurora starts having visions and showing glimpses of telekinetic powers as a side effect of her long time spent in the Fold. She is taken by the Terran government and starts having suspicions about their good intentions, just in time as Tyler gets his new squad and, as well, starts seeing things aren’t as they seem.

This has been one hell of a book-surprise. I’ve really expected to be heavily disappointed after Kaufman and Kristoff’s Illuminae series, which I kind of hate, and I thought “How could I like another sci-fi series written by the same authors I didn’t like before?”. But it turned out, Aurora Rising has an entirely different story to tell. I loved everything about this book, from plot to breathtaking world-building, but characters are the ones that truly made me fall for this book.

Tyler Jonson is Aurora Academy’s most promising student who has been working his ass off for years to become an Alpha. He’s the leader everyone wants to follow: brave, firm and compassionate, with tactical knowledge that could win wars. Tyler is pretty much nothing more than a hot love interest and a leader that keeps this insane squad together, but I still like him.

Scarlett – Tyler’s badass twin sister who is positioned as Ace in their team (person who is in charge of negotiations and talking, they know a lot of languages and are usually good with people). Scarlett is a sarcastic badass, with hidden depths that not many people can see, flirty and shallow at first, but a real fighter inside.

Cat is my favorite by far from everyone in this squad. Female pilot aka Zero, the best one you could find in the Milky Way. I just can’t get over her love and complicated relationship with Tyler that is followed by blind loyalty and unremarkable determination. I really loved her and *spoiler* the crew leaving her ended me, so I really need Tyler to come back for her.

Kal is a 19-year-old Sydralathi who can’t seem to fit anywhere. I rather liked him (especially cause Aurora called him Legolas xd) until all that mates-pull-shit started going on. I don’t really see what do YA authors have against nicely developed romance without shit like destiny and love on the first sight, but okay. I don’t particularly care for either of them, especially since Aurora is probably the most annoying character the world has ever seen.

Finian and Fila are the two remaining squad members and I really can’t remember anything significant about them, probably because I didn’t like them, or care. Finian is probably there to raise crews sarcasm rate and serve as Scar’s love interest, and Fila just fixes things so that would be it.  

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