Title: The Evaporation of Sofi SnowSeries: The Evaporation of Sofi Snow #1
Author: Mary Weber
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published Date: June 6th, 2017
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia
Page Count: 352
Format: Kindle
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Ever since the Delonese ice-planet arrived eleven years ago, Sofi's dreams have been vivid. Alien. In a system where Earth's corporations rule in place of governments and the humanoid race orbiting the moon are allies, her only constant has been her younger brother, Shilo. As an online gamer, Sofi battles behind the scenes of Earth's Fantasy Fighting arena where Shilo is forced to compete in a mix of real and virtual blood sport. But when a bomb takes out a quarter of the arena, Sofi's the only one who believes Shilo survived. She has dreams of him. And she's convinced he's been taken to the ice-planet.
Except no one but ambassadors are allowed there.
For Miguel, Earth's charming young playboy, the games are of a different sort. As Ambassador to the Delonese, his career has been built on trading secrets and seduction. Until the Fantasy Fight's bomb goes off. Now the tables have turned and he's a target for blackmail. The game is simple: Help the blackmailers, or lose more than anyone can fathom, or Earth can afford.
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My Review:
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for my honest review.
I had no idea what to expect when starting this book, and it completely amazed me.
I had no idea what to expect when starting this book, and it completely amazed me.
"You have everything, yet you don't even know who you are inside. It's the worst form of self-loathing, because you use it to rob from others. Until we become a freaking shell of who we were."
Sofi and her younger brother Shilo are in a game that is very futuristic and complicated for me to explain because I'm not sure I fully understand it. I will say that I found it absolutely fascinating with how the politics of this world and the game were mixed together. Sofi's mom is a leader of a big corporation in this world, and it appears that she chooses the company over her own children.
"In a room of passionate individuals who danced and sang and painted and performed, she had the distinct impression this recitation was an act. Like a habit practiced too often, too long, until too much of its meaning died."
This world also has aliens of some sort, they are very different from humans on earth and are scary in a way to the humans.
We also see things from Miguel's point of view and he is an ambassador to this alien nation from earth. Miguel is a really complicated character, and we didn't really get to learn a lot about him as a person outside of who he was to Sofi.
Sofi and Miguel have a very complicated relationship/friendship. I'm still not exactly sure what happened between them, but it's now very complicated.
Overall I loved this story. Sofi and Miguel and this whole world is fascinating to me, and I can't wait to see what happens next. If you can I would say to at least look at a physical copy of this book as each chapter has a faded out background pattern to it, that gives a little hint to something that they figure out in the books.
The side characters were all fascinating to me, and I really wasn't expecting for certain things to happen and I was just as shocked as the characters. The AI in this book is amazing as well and I really liked how she was helpful and not made to seem 'evil' in any way and instead was just an assistant of sorts to Miguel.
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