By the tender age of five, Cassidy had outlived her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. In fact, by that age, she had outlived almost the entire population of Earth. Now she’s sixteen and in a forbidden relationship with an unworthy Earth boy.
Since a meteorite strike destroyed Earth, Cassidy Jones has lived with her parents and brother in Petriville. This town is laced in cruel and dark mystery. And it hovers at the center of an indestructible sphere in Earth’s orbit.
When Cassidy refuses her mate, she places her family and herself in Gina Petri’s firing line. This becomes especially pertinent when Cassidy enters a communication pod and meets the alluring hologram of Eric. As one of Earth’s few survivors, he insists Gina will murder his people if she learns that they’re alive after all.
As Cassidy and Eric’s attraction grows, his great losses trigger deep compassion in her. Before long, they experience their first virtual touch, but she yearns for the day she’ll meet him in person.
All the questions will be answered when Petriville returns to Earth, and that day is quickly approaching…
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Reader advisory: This book contains scenes of violence and murder.
A Must Read!
"A Must Read!" -- The TBR Pile Review Group
Rating: 5 Stars
Cassidy lives in space after the world was destroyed. When she old enough, she’s given a mate and she wants nothing to do with a forced partnership. She’s already smitten with a boy. Eric, the handsome boy who survived on earth. Cassidy tidy world is quickly crumbling and she’s not sure where to go or who to trust.
Yes! This is exactly what I was in the mood for! I absolutely loved Cassidy. Loved her! She was a normal, considering they’re in space, girl. When the forced mating happens, I was outraged as she was. Eric seems so perfect. Too perfect, he had me suspicious. I really like how everything played out. The action, the romance, the twists. The details and world building were freaking fantastic!
I absolutely recommend reading The Renascent World, you will not be disappointed!
A page Turner book!
"A page Turner book!" -- Reader Review
Rating: 5 Stars
The Renascent World is a great well written Science Fiction book. It is filled with exciting scences. I often wonder myself if one day a meteor will hit our planet. This is definitely a page turning book and will continue to keep you entertained for hours after you start reading this book.
Engaging and enjoyable sci-fi adventure
"Engaging and enjoyable sci-fi adventure" -- Elite Reviewing Group
Rating: 4 Stars
When Cassidy Jones was five, she, her brother and their parents, along with several other carefully selected families, were chosen to populate Petriville, a city contained in a huge sphere in Earth’s orbit. Thus, they were saved from a meteor which struck Earth and destroyed most of the people remaining on the planet. For eleven years, Cassidy and her friends have lived happy, sheltered, privileged lives in the sphere, always with Earth looming in their sky as a visible reminder of where they came from and where they hope humanity may return one day.
However, the hermetic existence of the citizens of Petriville is about to be shattered forever. While helping her environmental scientist mother monitor Earth for signs of renascent life, sixteen-year-old Cassidy makes a monumental discovery which will change everything, both for her and her fellow survivors. Gradually awakening to powerful new-found emotions and the dark truth lying at the heart of the seemingly utopian perfection of her sealed world, Cassidy is set on course for conflict with Petriville’s totalitarian founder, Gina Petri, and a perilous journey back to Earth …
The author’s world-building is skilful and detailed, immersing the reader in an environment which, despite its on-the-surface idyllic setting, is established as unnervingly wrong from the get-go. Told from Cassidy’s POV, her discoveries deftly peel away layer after layer to reveal the terrible truth and purpose of Petriville. Eugenics, slavery, guilt, freedom of choice, and finding the courage to resist tyranny are brought to the fore in Cassidy’s journey of realisation and renascence, in which she will experience the joys of love and loyal friendship, the exhilaration of adventure, the terrors of torture, and, ultimately, the devastating grief of loss.
The central love story can feel a little over the top at times, but it rings true in that it is in keeping with Cassidy’s first experience of love as a teenager, with all the intensity and flowery language that entails. Her love interest is kept suitably enigmatic: we are never entirely sure whether he is genuinely the man of her dreams or will turn out to be someone else entirely. Their adversary, Gina, comes across as a chillingly effective combination of 1984’s Big Brother and Harry Potter’s Dolores Umbridge. Given her intelligence and the power she has accumulated as a woman, in what has up to now been a predominantly male field, she is one of the most intriguing characters as well as the most horrifying. More on her backstory and motivation would have been interesting and added to her depth as a villain.
Well-plotted, evocatively descriptive, at times humorous and at times shocking, The Renascent World ends both on an upbeat note and with a sinister hint of things that may yet be to come. A recommended read for fans of romance, sci-fi and adventure.
That is a gripping introduction to your story of Cassidy and her virtual (?) love who survived on planet Earth. A plausible scenario that I like in science fiction, especially for young adults.
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