**Special Review**
Genre: Sci/Fi futuristic and Survival
Seventeen-year-old Leigh wakes up on a spaceship with no recent memories of how she came to be there. She soon learns that she has been transported to another planet where humans are trying to begin a colony. She is part of the third landing party to her location, but they do not know how many colonies there are or how many landing parties there will be. She decides this could be a chance to escape her family’s past and chooses to tell everyone her name is Lorelei. As her group settles in to this new place it becomes obvious that they are all under eighteen and ill prepared for this unfamiliar terrain. They all rise to the challenge, however, and create jobs and rules for making this a community. Lorelei decides she wants to interview everyone to see if she can discover any correlations between their stories and maybe get some answers for how they came to be here. There are many challenges they face due to their limited supplies and knowledge of their new planet, but they all remain hopeful that eventually as more people join them that they will get answers. Will they ever remember how they came to volunteer for this mission? Will they ever learn why they had to leave Earth? Will they ever start to feel like this is home?
A solid beginning to what I assume will be a series. The premise is interesting and there are definitely plot twists and developments throughout as the characters learn more about their situation. There is definitely more for them to find out, however, including nearby colonies they have heard terrible things about as well as a suspected spaceship crash nearby. There are many characters, so at first it is really important to keep everyone straight, but as the story goes on and they get to know each other better each character starts to stand out more. Definitely recommended for readers who enjoy sci/fi and futuristic stores.