Living Hell
HarperCollins · Paperback · April 4, 2011
What happens when a single moment changes everything?
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- Who it’s for
- A self-contained spacecraft becomes a tense arena for teen survival when its familiar order breaks down.
- Themes
- Survival under attack, A trusted home turned dangerous
- Pacing
- Fast
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What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force.
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As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship that’s nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.
A Ship Turns Strange
A self-contained spacecraft becomes a tense arena for teen survival when its familiar order breaks down.
Come here for
- Space-bound survival with a sharp shift from serene to threatening
- The unnerving idea of a nurturing ship becoming dangerous
Expect
- A teen perspective on life aboard a spacecraft
- A tightening struggle against an increasingly hostile ship
Where it sits
| YA Survival Stories | 53% |
|---|---|
| YA Horror | 52% |
| YA Science Fiction | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Adventure
- YA Survival Stories
- YA Fantasy
- YA Horror
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- YA Science Fiction
- Alien Contact for Teens
- Space Opera for Teens
- Death & Grief for Teens
- Authors
- Catherine Jinks
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 4, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Survival under attack · A trusted home turned dangerous
- Reading lane
- YA Adventure