This was my second read of Aurora Rising and honestly I’m just so happy that I got to experience it all over again! If you’re looking for a perfect escapist novel during these weary times – filled with fun, feels and a fabulous squad of ragtag misfits of astronomical proportions, then Aurora Rising is definitely for you! 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.Ī huge thank you to Allen & Unwin, who kindly gifted me a copy of A urora Rising and Aurora Burning in exchange for honest reviews, all thoughts are my own. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth.

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:Ī cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasmĪ sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmatesĪ smart-ass tech-whiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulderĪn alien warrior with anger management issuesĪ tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering.Īnd 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. The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction, Adventure Fiction.įrom the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic. Book One in The Aurora Cycle, published in Australia by Allen & Unwin (2019).

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