Gravity by Melissa West
eARC received from Entangled Publishing
Release Date: December 18
Reviewed by: Middle
Sis Jenn
The Sisters Say:
Gripping and Grostesque--with a touch of romance!
In the future, only one rule will matter:
Don’t. Ever. Peek.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
Don’t. Ever. Peek.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
I had been looking forward to reading Gravity since I first
read the blurb months and months ago.
The concept was new and refreshing, and I couldn’t wait to dig into
Jackson’s secrets! Now that I have read
it, I will say—his secrets are definitely worth reading! Adventurous and romantic, Gravity will lift your off your feet and
send your soaring through a broken world teetering on the brink of
destruction.
The world building was my favorite part of this book. Earth has been ravaged by war after war, to
the point where nothing grows naturally any more. As a result, humans had to reach out to the
Ancients to try and bring the Earth and its resources back to life. I found the new government interesting—how the
future seemed to bleed back into the past where family lineage was the way to
power; yet the technology was much more advanced than our own. Prejudice and poverty are rife, and those in
power seek to obtain perfection.
I found Ari to be a kick butt heroine, even though she was
daft at times. Her father is one of the
most powerful people in this dystopian world, and he is in charge of the safety
of the citizens. Since power is handed
down through families, this makes Ari the next in line to be the sort of
supreme commander. She has ninja skills
that would make Jackie Chan look twice, and she doesn’t give in to pain and
vulnerability. I liked that strength
about her, and I liked that she also had a mind of her own. She wasn’t brainwashed like you would think
many who have been indoctrinated to believe something would be; instead, she
looks at the evidence, weighs the consequences, and then chooses what she
thinks is best for the world. The only
thing that bugged me at times is she seemed to be clueless when it comes to
relationships. There were things that
she didn’t understand that were right in front of her, and that made me want to
smack her at points.
Don’t. Ever. Peak.
But with Jackson Locke?
That’s just not possible! He’s
gorgeous—sculpted and made to look like the perfect human being, but he also
has the hero complex that just makes me swoon.
Add the fact that he floats over Ari every night while she is asleep
(hot!), and he is just full to the brim with sexiness! But Jackson has secrets of his own, and I
really didn’t see them coming. Maybe I
should have, but Melissa did a great job of making you focus on other aspects
of the world and the forth-coming war that when you discover his secret, you
don’t really see it coming. Jackson made
me smile—that’s how I would explain him.
He’s the guy that’s caring and can hypnotize you with a look, yet once
the trance is broken, you see how dangerous and deadly he truly is.
And The
ENDING!!!! Oh my goodness, I can’t wait
for the next book to come out because I need to know what is in store for Ari and
her world! I was able to predict that
something weird/crazy would happen just from the hints, but everything is still
all up in the air; and I’m not really sure if I have any idea about what is
coming. So, Melissa and Entangled…..we
need book 2 now!!!! Now!!! Please!!!
I did find a few plot holes throughout the story, but since
this is just the first book, it is probably because those revelations have yet
to be revealed.
Melissa creates a world torn apart by despair and greed,
where its brother against brother, friend against friend—a world where fate is
manipulated, love is perilous, and truth is obscured. So ignore the warning, and take a peak!
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