Thetis
The Deep Sky Saga Book
2
by Greg Boose
Genre: YA Sci-fi
Fantasy
Pub
Date: 10/8/18
Lost
meets The 100 in this action-packed YA science fiction series.
Blind
and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a
rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a
few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the
moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony
on Thetis is just as he feared–cloaked in mystery and under an
oppressive rule with no one to trust–and that outside the walls,
it’s even worse. Surrounded by terrifying new landscapes and
creatures, Jonah and his friends fight to save the colony and restore
order to the planet.
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The
gray grass under Jonah’s boots pops and shatters with every step. He follows
the adults into the trees, stepping where they step, bracing his hands where
theirs just were. It’s hot and sticky, and his gray jumpsuit clings to his skin
like wet tissues.
“We
found the yellow jacket right over there,” the woman says, pointing to the
bottom of a large, twisted tree. “Showed up in our headlights while we’re
headed back to camp.”
Jonah
stares at the tree and the blood on its trunk, wondering why they didn’t leave
the jacket where it was for evidence, or immediately investigate once they
found it. He also wonders whose blood it is. Did Paul wake up and attack Dr. Z,
ripping her jacket off and then chasing her into the forest? Or did Dr. Z carve
up Paul’s skin with some new message to warn the others?
He
stumbles past everyone, making his own path, and soon finds himself standing on
the edge of a cliff. Half a mile below, thousands of geysers erupt in the
valley, creating an enormous cloud of green mist that hovers overhead, blocking
out the sun. The cliff Jonah stands on goes on for miles and miles, almost
completely circling the valley. Way off on his right, a series of waterfalls
descend the cliff into a giant pool that narrows and funnels into a twisting stream,
cutting right through the geysers on the valley floor.
“You
see those little black dots in all those waterfalls?” the woman asks as she
comes up behind him.
Jonah
thinks he might see some black specks in the water when he squints but can’t be
sure.
The
woman holds her sheaf out in front of Jonah’s face and turns on the camera. She
raises her chin, triggering the zoom function, and suddenly it’s as if they’re
hovering right above a waterfall halfway up the cliff. On her screen, small
horned animals with squashed, pig-like faces bob up and down in the water above
one of the falls. There are hundreds of them, maybe thousands. And they go over
the falls seemingly without worry, plummeting with their short arms held above
their heads. The woman zooms in even closer on a couple of the animals,
following them all the way down the cliff, down waterfall after waterfall, and
when they finally reach the giant pool at the bottom, they go underwater and
never resurface, disappearing without a trace. Her sheaf scans the pool’s
surface and then follows the stream cutting through the valley. Not one of the
animals floats through. Thousands keep coming down the falls, and then they’re
gone.
“Are
they…Dying? Are they killing themselves?” Jonah asks.
“Maybe,”
the woman answers. “But we don’t know for sure because we can’t find any
bodies. They just,” she snaps her fingers, “go away. Even with our drones, we
can’t figure it out. Yet.”
Jonah
watches for a few more seconds before his eyes are drawn to a splattering of
blood near his feet. There’s more to his left, and he quickly starts to follow
it down a ridge that hugs the cliff’s edge.
“Yo,
Firstie,” Vespa says behind him. “Wait up.”
The
man with the ponytail suddenly pushes past Vespa and then Jonah, descending the
ridge in a jog with series of loud, hacking coughs, his head still nodding, his
rifle bouncing on his back.
“He
lives for this kind of stuff,” the woman says as she drops in line behind
Vespa. The bald man takes up the rear, whistling and clicking his tongue as if
this is just a walk in the park.
“Does
he keep nodding because of the…What’s wrong?” Vespa asks.
“It’s
from the wormhole,” the woman says. “He hasn’t been able to stop moving his
head ever since we went through two years ago. Even does it in his sleep, from
what I’ve heard.”
The
ridge continues to descend and curve left, ending at a large, circular space
dotted with cave entrances. As Jonah comes down the final steps of the ridge,
he doesn’t know where to look: at the half-circle of black doorways punched into
the stone, or at the small sculptures all around him; rocks of all sizes and
shapes are stacked on top of each other, balancing and wobbling in the swirling
wind that sweeps through the area.
“Who
the hell made those?” Vespa asks.
A
low groan comes from one of the caves. The man with the ponytail whips his gun
off his back and looks through his scope, nodding and bobbing the barrel of the
rifle from cave to cave until pointing at one on the left. “He’s in there.”
In Achilles the first book in The Deep Sky Saga we meet a
group of teenagers who were on their way to the planet Thetis to help colonize
it after teenagers on Thetis were killed. Jonah’s ship crashes on Thetis moon
Achilles before they can make it to Thetis. People are slaughter from one side
of the moon to the other.
After all of the horrid things that Jonah and his friends
experience on Achilles they are finally rescued by people from Thetis. But their
nightmares don’t end when they reach Thetis. Jonah runs into more monsters and
ghosts on Thetis and they all want him to join them and become their leader.
Monsters or something have taken over the people who were on
the Mayflower #2 when it crashed on Achilles and now they have been brought to
Thetis where their nightmares continue. Jonah keeps hearing voices his head
telling him to follow them and give him instructions of where to go and what he
must do. Jonah is not sure where the voices are coming from or if they are even
real. Jonah just wants to save all of his friends from the monsters that are
taking them over. He wants to help Thetis to become a better place to live for
everyone on the planet as well as the people from Earth, hopefully one day.
Thetis is a face paced book that grabbed my attention from
the first page and still hasn’t let go. Thetis is just as good as or maybe slightly
better than Achilles. But seriously if I had to pick one or the other I don’t
think I could I truly and honestly loved both books.
The Deep Sky Saga just gets better and better with each
word. I love the world that was created for The Deep Sky Saga. It is filled
with lots of action that keeps you hooked from one page to the next not knowing
what is going on around you. You feel as if you have been sucked right into
that wormhole with Jonah and everyone else. I can’t wait to see where The Deep
Sky Saga takes us next and what journeys lay ahead.
I would recommend Thetis to all fans of science fiction. If
you like TV shows like The 100, Lost or even Star Trek then you will love
Thetis and Achilles.
Achilles
The Deep Sky Saga Book
1
Young
colonists find themselves stranded on an unpopulated moon—and not
as alone as they thought—in a series debut from the author of The
Red Bishop.
The
year is 2221, and humans have colonized a planet called Thetis in the
Silver Foot Galaxy. After a tragic accident kills dozens of teenage
colonists, Thetis’s leaders are desperate to repopulate. So Earth
sends the Mayflower
2—a
state-of-the-art spaceship—across the universe to bring new
homesteaders to the colony.
For
orphaned teen Jonah Lincoln, the move to Thetis is a chance to
reinvent himself, to be strong and independent and brave, the way he
could never be on Earth. But his dreams go up in smoke when their
ship crash-lands, killing half the passengers and leaving the rest
stranded—not on Thetis, but on its cruel and unpopulated moon,
Achilles.
Between
its bloodthirsty alien life forms and its distance from their
intended location, Achilles is a harrowing landing place. When all of
the adult survivors suddenly disappear, leaving the teenage
passengers to fend for themselves, Jonah doubts they’ll survive at
all, much less reach Thetis—especially when it appears Achilles
isn’t as uninhabited as they were led to believe.
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When I read the summary for Achilles I knew I had to read it
as I have been looking for a book or movie about spaceships and people living
on another planet for a long time. I saw the reference to The 100 and Lost and
that just sealed it for me. I have been looking for books and shows like The
100 and Lost ever since I saw them for the first time this year.
Humans have been trying to colonize the planet Thetis for a
while now so when an accident kills most of the teenagers on the planet Thetis
calls Earth and ask them to send more. Earth sends the Mayflower 2 to Thetis
with more teenagers and adults to Thetis but they never make it. The Mayflower
2 crash lands on one of Thetis moon called Achilles. The people on the
Mayflower 2 don’t know anything about Achilles or all the dangerous animals on
the moon. The survivors are determined to find a way to continue their journey
to Thetis and get off Achilles before they all end up dead.
Achilles if filled with lots of action from the first page
that will keep you jumping with excitement wanting to know more. With the crash
and the ship being in several different pieces with people slung from one end
to the other not mention people hanging out of their seats sitting in the tops
of very tall trees with deadly spikes coming out of their branches to flowers
opening up and shooting at them leaving fires in their wake to arms being
ripped off to people hanging upside down inside the ship. There is enough
action to keep you glued to the pages and the adrenaline pumping.
Achilles is a great introduction to The Deep Sky Saga that
opens us up to the world that is to come. I can’t wait to dive into the next
book and see what is waiting for all our little friends on Thetis and how far
they have come in the colonization.
If you like spaceships, living on another planet, fighting
space monsters, teenagers surviving on their own and being resourceful then you
are going to love this whole new world of The Deep Sky Saga, starting with
Achilles and then on to Thetis.
The
fourth of six kids, Greg Boose grew up on a large produce farm
in northeast Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Miami
University, and then later received his M.F.A. at Minnesota State
University Moorhead where he focused on screenwriting and fiction. He
lives in Santa Monica with his two young daughters.
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