Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ out of 5 stars
My
thoughts:
Blue Into The Rip is quite a
different YA book. It doesn’t have vampires, it’s not about the end of the
world, has no bows and arrows, and there is no magic to be seen anywhere. It’s
a sci-fi adventure in a similar vein to Ender’s Game with time travel thrown in
for good measure.
What a fantastic debut novel from
Kev Heritage. Blue Into The Rip has everything going for it: time travel, interesting
characters, suspenseful situations, good guys, bad guys and camaraderie.
Blue finds himself four hundred years
in the future thanks to a rip in time. The world is a very different place. Our
fifteen year old protagonist ends up in the academy of a mysterious military
organisation called SEARCH. This is where the action really starts, where Blue
makes friends and enemies and begins his own search to find a way home.
There is also an environmental
message thrown in about the possible future of the planet with global warming.
It certainly is a great premise for a series and I really look forward to
spending more time with Blue. So few stories are written aimed at middle school
boys and older with an interesting premise and this certainly fills a gap
there.
If you are an adult, don’t let
its YA tag stop you reading it. Blue Into The Rip is well written, creative, and just shows you that Independent authors are
creating work as good, if not better than traditional publishers. I highly
recommend you join Blue for a rollicking, thought-provoking adventure.
Book
Blurb:
Blue didn’t want to be in the
future
They didn’t want him there either…
A rip in the fabric of time, a
far-flung globally warmed future, a flooded Earth and the only remainder of
civilisation – a militaristic organisation living underneath ‘Desert Amazon’…
Getting back home to rescue his little
sister Annie was the only thing that mattered to messed up, mixed race
teenager, Blue (named after his stupid, googly blue eyes) – and that was the
problem – home was over four hundred years in the past.
Ripped forwards in time from his
odd hippy parents, their peculiar house and his lonely school life, Blue had
only one thing on his mind: return. But how does a lowly cadet in a
militaristic Academy living in a post-apocalyptic future achieve such a goal,
especially with the distractions of girls, pilot training, spacewalks and his
almost constant unpopularity?
The more Blue found out about
this flooded, gung-ho annoying future, about himself – who and what he was (was
he even human?) – and the equally disturbing and shocking truth about his
‘parents’ – the more he realised getting home was the only solution. Wasn’t it?
If Blue knew one thing, it was that he would at least try.
Release Date: January
2014
Author’s
Website: http://www.kevheritage.com
Purchase Book: http://www.kevheritage.com/blue-into-the-rip/
Publisher’s Website: Independent Author
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