This spectacular space mission,inspired by Othello and Star Trek, goes boldly where few YA titles believe gone beforeThings are not going too well for Olivia (“Vee”) Sindall at the beginning of Malorie Blackmans latest epic novel. She and her brother Aidan are the only survivors on a starship heading back to Earth, and the rest of the crew – including their parents – having been wiped out by a killer alien virus three years before. So there is loneliness and grief to deal with,as well as the everyday problems of space travel.
They are also being pursued by a species called the Mazon, whose sole reason for existence seems to be to terminate with extreme prejudice Vee and her brother and any other humans they can lay their tentacles on. Then Vee manages to upset the Mazon even more: she sabotages their ships on a mission to rescue the Earth colonists they’re attacking, or snatching most of them to safety in the nick of time.
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Source: theguardian.com