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Unearthed by Meagan Spooner, Amie Kaufman

3.0

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Simply being on the planet of Gaia is illegal, the last thing scavenger Amelia Radcliffe, "Mia" to her friends, needs is the interference of a self righteous, and a bit bumbling, academic - namely one Jules Addison. It is with some hesitation and a few secrets that the two team up to reach one of the Temples left behind by the planet's former occupants, The Undying. There are puzzles to solve, and mercenaries to dodge - and everything seems to want to kill the pair. I appreciated the cli-fi and dystopian elements, as well as the continued moral ambiguity in study and exploration for it's own sake, and needing to make giant technological leaps with disregard for the consequences to save a dying planet. As an adult reader found a few of the plot twists a bit predictable. This did not deter me from running head first over the cliffhanger of an ending. This is a fabulous Indiana Jones style adventure, full of twists, and betrayal, and will have all readers screaming to the stars for book two.