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A review by roxanamalinachirila
The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey
3.0
One thing I like about "The Girls from Alcyone" is the fact that the main characters are, indeed, girls - not like in "Gone Girl", where the character in question is, in fact, a woman.
In the not-so-far future in which people land themselves in deeper and deeper debts and give away their kids to corporations, Sigrid is removed from her family (and Earth) and taken to Alcyone, a planet owned by the Kimura corporation. Having the right genes, she and several other 8-9 year-old girls can be experimented on so they can be enhanced biologically and turned into super-fighters.
Don't let this part of the summary fool you, though: "The Girls from Alcyone" is a fast-paced, light sci-fi novel, with a dash of lesbian sexuality thrown in for good measure. Some of the science is very unlikely (giant elevators going 400 km up from earth, where space ships can pick passengers up from, asteroids where there seems to be an atmosphere despite the low gravity), but the action is fun. Some of the plot twists were a bit unlikely and some of the characters a bit cliched, but I'll still be reading the sequels... eventually.
In the not-so-far future in which people land themselves in deeper and deeper debts and give away their kids to corporations, Sigrid is removed from her family (and Earth) and taken to Alcyone, a planet owned by the Kimura corporation. Having the right genes, she and several other 8-9 year-old girls can be experimented on so they can be enhanced biologically and turned into super-fighters.
Don't let this part of the summary fool you, though: "The Girls from Alcyone" is a fast-paced, light sci-fi novel, with a dash of lesbian sexuality thrown in for good measure. Some of the science is very unlikely (giant elevators going 400 km up from earth, where space ships can pick passengers up from, asteroids where there seems to be an atmosphere despite the low gravity), but the action is fun. Some of the plot twists were a bit unlikely and some of the characters a bit cliched, but I'll still be reading the sequels... eventually.