ARC Review: Honor Among Thieves (The Honors #1) by Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
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Series: The Honors #1
Author: Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre
Published January 15th 2019 by Katherine Tegen Books
Goodreads Synopsis
Meet your new favorite kickass heroine in this daring YA series by New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre, a thrilling yet romantic futuristic adventure perfect for fans of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You.
Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell.
Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan—a race of sentient alien ships—to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers.
Zara seizes the chance to flee Earth’s dangers, but when she meets Nadim, the alien ship she’s assigned, Zara starts to feel at home for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the dark, ominous truths that lurk behind the alluring glitter of starlight.
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I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
Honor Among Thieves follows Zara, whose been living on the edge of society when she failed to assimilate to life's rules well, and is now at risk after stealing from the daughter of a very important person, Deluca, who basically runs her city. When she is revealed to be one of this year's 100 honoured - chosen to take part in a year's mission travelling aboard one of the Leviathan, an alien ship, it's sort of a relief. Along with a fellow honoured, Beatriz, they board Nadim, and while travelling the solar system, they learn that not all they have been told is true, and that there are secrets the Leviathan have been keeping from them.
I wasn't sure whether this would be a book for me, because Sci-Fi is a hit or miss for me. I mean, I like watching the occasional Sci-Fi film, but very rarely do I read books of the genre. I did enjoy this book, but it took some getting through because I wasn't all that invested, and some parts of it weirded me out too. The idea that the honoured are living inside an alien, walking around in empty chambers, was disgusting, and especially when Zara had to cut into Nadim and crawl through his veins and arteries when he was injured. I also didn't like the way that Zara and Nadim bonded as it was neigh on romantic, and that just turned me off the book. I didn't want to DNF it, because I wanted to see if we learnt more about Typhon, the Elder Leviathan, and why he was the way he was, but I won't be reading the other books in this series.
Dates Read:
April 8-16, 2020Rating
3 Stars
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