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    Martians Abroad
    Martians Abroad
    Martians Abroad
    Audiobook7 hours

    Martians Abroad

    Written by Carrie Vaughn

    Narrated by Amanda Leigh Cobb

    3.5/5

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    Well-known for her bestselling series Kitty Norville, Carrie Vaughn moves to science fiction with Martians Abroad, a novel with great crossover appeal. Polly Newton has one single-minded dream, to be a starship pilot and travel the galaxy. Her mother, the Director of the Mars Colony, derails Polly's plans when she sends Polly and her genius twin brother, Charles, to Galileo Academy on Earth. Homesick and cut off from her plans for her future, Polly cannot seem to fit into life on Earth. Strange, unexplained, dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates begin piling up. Charles may be rightthere's more going on than would appear, and the stakes are high. With the help of Charles, Polly is determined to find the truth, no matter the cost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 17, 2017
    ISBN9781501957536
    Martians Abroad
    Author

    Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons, her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado.

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    • 4/5
      Polly is surprised by her mother with a trip to an exclusive school on Earth. Her twin brother thinks this will be great but Polly doesn’t want to go and already has ideas about how her becoming a pilot are mapped out and this school wasn’t in her plans. Turns out the school can really help her out since the cream of political and money circles of Earth go to Galileo Academy. The off world students stick together for most part due to trying to get used to the gravity.
      Polly has more issues fitting in then Charles but when things go wrong on an outing for her year mates she jumps in and does the right thing. This helps her out a bit socially but she still isn’t happy at school. More things happen during the school year as Polly and with some assistance from her twin get to the bottom of it.
      Overall a good YA read and I’m glad to see more from Carrie Vaughn.


      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
    • 5/5
      MARTIANS ABROAD was an interesting science fiction story story starring Polly Newton and her twin brother Charles. Polly and Charles were born on Mars which is being colonized by Earth. Their mother is the Director of the Mars Colony. Polly's only goal in life is to learn how to pilot a spaceship. She is extremely disappointed and angry when she finds out the her mother has enrolled her and Clark in the Galileo Academy on Earth. The Galileo Academy is the school where the movers and shakers of Earth and the other colonies send their kids so that they can form connections that will benefit them for the rest of their life.Polly is not at all excited to go to Earth and go to that school. She has good reason. The kids from off planet are treated as a lower class minority. They also have to deal with being less able to survive on Earth because they aren't used to the gravity. To make it even worse it looks like someone is staging some dangerous situations for Polly to deal with. First, one of the Earth girls who has become her friend is knocked off a cliff while they are on a field trip to Yosemite. Polly manages to save her but at the cost of fractured ribs. The next situation occurs when they are touring Manhattan which is now one big museum.Polly, Charles and their friends identify the person arranging the accidents but they really don't know why the accidents are being arranged. They are fearful when they learn that their next field trip will be to the Moon. Space is dangerous enough without having someone arranging accidents. Polly is a great character. She is curious and brave and quite a hero though she says what she does is just what anyone would do.This science fiction book reminded my of an oldie by Robert A. Heinlein. PODKAYNE OF MARS (1963) also has a brother and sister who are on their way to Earth. The female lead tells the story in both books. In Heinlein's book, the brother is younger and a socially maladjusted genius. In this book, Charles is Polly's twin. The genius part is the same and so is the maladjustment. Science fiction fans will enjoy this story.
    • 4/5
      Polly Newton has had her life planned out for a while now – intern at the astrodome on her native Mars, and eventually get into a starship piloting program. When her mother arranges for her and her brother Charles to attend the prestigious Galileo Academy on Earth, her whole life gets derailed. Life at the academy doesn’t exactly turn out to be what she expected either.Books set at schools are always a little more fun because of the setting, and Martians Abroad is no exception. There’s something intrinsically compelling about reading about your protagonist getting used to a new place and new people. Polly is a pretty typical teenager – confused but completely certain she knows best, stubborn, and rebellious. But when things get hairy, she does the right thing, and everyone likes her for it, including me. Her difficulties fitting in are exacerbated by her reaction to Earth. Vaughn did a great job of conveying how alien a planet like Earth would be to someone who grew up on a naturally uninhabitable planet. The other characters don’t stand out that much, except for Charles, who I really wanted to know more about.I’d say the biggest flaw with this book was the plot. I couldn’t believe that the antagonist would get away with the things they did so easily. I feel like it also made Polly’s growth arc too contrived, it felt like she was constantly reacting rather than growing on her own. Maybe I would have felt differently if the book hadn’t ended so soon; it ended just as things were getting interesting. I hope there will be a sequel because I would like to follow up with what happens to Polly and Charles.
    • 3/5
      A fun read but it felt more like a teen book to me. Still a good choice for people wanted and old school scifi book.
    • 4/5
      Polly and her twin brother Charles are graduating and looking forward to going into apprenticeships. Polly wants to become a pilot, and Charles is going into colony administration. Then their mother, chief administrator of Mars Colony One, informs them that she is sending them to Earth, to the prestigious Galileo Academy, the first Martian students to be admitted there. Polly rebels, but is somewhat placated by the assurance that this will be a fast-track to piloting school.Earth gravity is a nasty surprise, Galileo Academy is very rigid and expects all of the students to be intimately familiar with the Earth history that Polly and Charles were never taught, and their Earther classmates are very competitive and contemptuous of the few colonial students. And their field trips keep turning dangerous. Polly perseveres, makes friends among some of the other colonial students, and tries to carve out a place for herself.A well-wrought coming-of-age story. Not quite traditional YA, but it's young characters give it youth appeal, and it would not be out of place in a YA collection.