Climate change has raised the oceans and drowned many cities. I believe that this is the first book in a trilogy and I will certainly be looking for the next book in order to continue my read about this quest. While travelling in space and saving humanity is a dream job for most of these young people, there is a dark side that is just barely hinted at. Of course being a YA book, a romance develops between these two but the author kept it fairly believable.

While Naomi would rather stay on Earth with her family, Leo, is eager to go and is grateful for this opportunity to change his fate and make Italy and his dead family proud. Naomi, an Iranian-American engineering and science genius and Italian Leo, a former champion Olympic swimmer. The two main characters were well crafted and likable. This was a fast-moving, action packed YA read that kept me engrossed from start to finish. Out of these twenty-four, only six will be chosen to build a new world. A group of twenty-four young people, from all over the globe, are brought together to be trained for a unique mission to colonize one of Jupiter’s moons. The future of mankind is hanging in the balance as cities are destroyed and chaos occurs all over the world. The Final Six is set in the not too distant future as climate change causes the world’s lands to be swallowed by the sea. In this cutthroat atmosphere, surrounded by strangers from around the world, Naomi finds.

She fears something equally sinister awaiting the Final Six beneath Europa’s surface. But Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, is suspicious of the ISTC and the fact that a similar mission failed under mysterious circumstances, killing the astronauts onboard. With Earth irreparably damaged, the future of the human race rests on their shoulders.įor Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, this kind of purpose is a reason to go on after losing his family. Overnight, they become global celebrities in contention for one of the six slots to travel to Europa-Jupiter’s moon-and establish a new colony, leaving their planet forever.

When Leo and Naomi are drafted, along with twenty-two of the world’s brightest teenagers, into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever changed.

This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian. Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon.

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