Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
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With war looming over the minds of the young people of earth, humans are being tricked into giving up their immunities in order to live peacefully on earth. It is no longer about the divisions inside the human race. the divide is upon the ancients and the humans.
this story is more like a film and the main characters are built to last. they are young, militant and trained fighters yet the human race is at a huge disadvantage. West gives the reader an edgy seat with this book. it is not the kind of read that leaves you breathless but you will definitely be worried if humanity will survive. She gives the reader a mysterious weave yet gives just enough information that you have not bitten every nail off, before the end.
enjoying just enough information was good for me. Needing to know more was important for me too, but i was able to make it on the little that west supplied and that was good enough. the spy seemed like a total user and thief, heck all the aliens did. but I am definite this is the way West wanted her audience to view them as. Humanity did not look like total losers though, and that was a relief for me.
The reader walks away from this book realizing that there is more to life than meets the eye. That we should be thankful for all the beauty that we still have left and are able to enjoy. Not only that, but that racism in general really should matter less, and what should be important to us are the simple things that we need to survive, like clean water, clean air and real non gmo foods. Well that is what I got out of this book. I took the author's underlying hints as such and looked at the life that we humans inhabit here on earth and what we should all value.
we never know when an alien corporation will strip us of all the clean water that we need, or take away our rights to enjoy a delicious meal. That is the underlying message of this book that I am strutting away with and knowing that I will make the right decision for humanity by continuing to do what my ancestors have always taught me to do, honor our mother, the earth.
I rate this book five stars and encourage those that are wrestling with the thought of supporting tar sands, fracking or the like to take a deeper look and read gravity, you will be challenged to honor the earth!
this story is more like a film and the main characters are built to last. they are young, militant and trained fighters yet the human race is at a huge disadvantage. West gives the reader an edgy seat with this book. it is not the kind of read that leaves you breathless but you will definitely be worried if humanity will survive. She gives the reader a mysterious weave yet gives just enough information that you have not bitten every nail off, before the end.
enjoying just enough information was good for me. Needing to know more was important for me too, but i was able to make it on the little that west supplied and that was good enough. the spy seemed like a total user and thief, heck all the aliens did. but I am definite this is the way West wanted her audience to view them as. Humanity did not look like total losers though, and that was a relief for me.
The reader walks away from this book realizing that there is more to life than meets the eye. That we should be thankful for all the beauty that we still have left and are able to enjoy. Not only that, but that racism in general really should matter less, and what should be important to us are the simple things that we need to survive, like clean water, clean air and real non gmo foods. Well that is what I got out of this book. I took the author's underlying hints as such and looked at the life that we humans inhabit here on earth and what we should all value.
we never know when an alien corporation will strip us of all the clean water that we need, or take away our rights to enjoy a delicious meal. That is the underlying message of this book that I am strutting away with and knowing that I will make the right decision for humanity by continuing to do what my ancestors have always taught me to do, honor our mother, the earth.
I rate this book five stars and encourage those that are wrestling with the thought of supporting tar sands, fracking or the like to take a deeper look and read gravity, you will be challenged to honor the earth!
*I received Gravity in exchange for an honest review, and I greatly
value the fact that I can help others choose their reading materials by
providing this service.
Melissa
West writes young adult and new adult novels for Entangled Teen and
Embrace and Penguin/InterMix. She lives outside of Atlanta, GA with
her husband and two daughters and spends most of her time writing,
reading, or fueling her coffee addiction.She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and a M.S. in Graphic Communication, both from Clemson University. Yeah, her blood runs orange.
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I really took the underlying messages from those that could not eat off campus and other small happenings and applied it to everyday life on earth today. I am glad that West wrote this book and hope that others are able to gain a positive message for humanity like I did from this book. We are more than just vessels we are here to do something good, we are not just here to exist for nothing! Our meaning is more than skin color etc. We are the human race built from this earth and should be respecting our peoples and our mother first and foremost! Awesome read!
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