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Waiting on Wednesday 44

Waiting on Wednesday 44Earth Girl by Janet Edwards (Find on Goodreads)
Published August, 16 2012 by Harper Voyager
358 pages

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.

Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.

A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by BREAKING THE SPINE devoted to showing off what books you can’t wait to get your hands on this week! This week’s WoW comes from Megan (aka the HBIC of Book Brats). Didn’t I just do this last week? Oh, well, you get to see MORE about what I want!

Let’s go over the things Megan likes again. It’s a long list, so I’ll try and keep it short. I like science fiction, I like true dystopian fiction, I like badass girls, I like things that make me sit on the edge of my seat biting my nails. So many books have tried for this and fallen a bit short, but when a blogger mentioned EARTH GIRL by Janet Edwards to me, I knew I had to read this. So that is why I am going out on a limb today and picking EARTH GIRL for my Waiting on Wednesday. Doesn’t it sound epic?

Anyway, what are YOU waiting on this Wednesday?

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