In the future, only one rule will matter:
Don't. Ever. Peek.
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.
On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because in this world, pleasure is everything, held up by a ruling body that keeps their people in check by giving them what they want and closing their eyes to what's really happening around them. The only hope Loge has is to move its people to Earth, and they have a plan.
Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to wage war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems…and no one can be trusted.
Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to wage war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems…and no one can be trusted.
From Goodreads:
Ari Alexander is now back on Earth, and the world she left behind has been turned upside down. A new leader has risen to power, her friends have become her enemies, and Jackson is thought to be trapped on Loge with her archrival, Zeus.
Now Ari must determine who is the true enemy before Zeus attacks and Earth is forced into a battle of the dominant species.
Will Ari and Jackson's love give them the strength to survive the greatest war in human history?
My Review:
I had a really great time reading these books! I'd previously read Gravity and Hover, but that was over a decade for the former, and 8 months under for the later, so I'd basically forgotten everything that happened, so it was basically like reading it for the first time. And then I finally read Collide, and see how things end!
I had a really great time reading these books! I'd previously read Gravity and Hover, but that was over a decade for the former, and 8 months under for the later, so I'd basically forgotten everything that happened, so it was basically like reading it for the first time. And then I finally read Collide, and see how things end!
Ari has known, and has been trained since she was little, to become the Commander. But what she doesn't know is that Earth doesn't intend on keeping their promises to the ancients, that they believe there can only be one dominant species on Earth, and they intend on it being them. Though my question would be, isn't the ancients keeping the plants and such that provide normal food going? I know there's the artificial stuff that the scientists are coming up with, but would that really sustain humanity?
Man, the complicated politics of it all! These are really high stakes, the survival of the species, and both sides are taking it pretty seriously. Both sides where going about it wrong, but Ari and her group seemed to be the only ones who wanted to find a better path forward.
There is a prequel novel coming out soon, which is pretty exciting, because it seems to be set before the arrangement was made between humanity and the ancients. That it has some characters with familiar last names is very exciting!
I loved reading these books, and I can't wait to read more by Melissa West!
Author: Melissa West
Series: The Taking #1, 2, 3
First Read: December 5th-6th, 2012, August 11th, 2013
Author: Melissa West
Series: The Taking #1, 2, 3
First Read: December 5th-6th, 2012, August 11th, 2013
Read: January 17th, 18th, 18th, 2023
Source: NetGalley, Library
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're 2023 Dystopian Books and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books! And Collide is a End of Series 2023 Book!
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: August 16th 2022, August 13th 2013, January 28th 2015
Source: NetGalley, Library
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're 2023 Dystopian Books and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books! And Collide is a End of Series 2023 Book!
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: August 16th 2022, August 13th 2013, January 28th 2015
Gravity:
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| 5/5 Stars |
Hover:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Collide:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
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