Salvation Day

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published July 9, 2019 by Berkley.

ISBN:
978-1-9848-0369-6
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Kidnapping the lone survivor of an abandoned spaceship where she would house her exiled cult, Zahra uncovers a terrifying government secret that threatens all humanity. By the author of The Memory Trees. A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.

They thought the ship would be their salvation.

Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya—the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.

But what Zahra and her crew could not know was what …

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interesting (hardly new, but still quite interesting) idea, butchered by the typical «ya» writing: endless intenal monologs (even dialogs seem like monologs here). and what's with this «f» word all over the text? why? what for?dear «ya» authors, you just can't use curses to build tension, it doesn't work that way in a text :-) it's actually the othe way around: you have to build tension with other literary tools for a curse to be naturally inserted if you need it. most times you really don't though.

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