Rogue; Planet Athion by Debbie CassidyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Fighting For Survival
Rogue makes my heart hurt. She’s been through so much, she doesn’t even have her own name anymore. We are thrown in at the deep end with her as she fights for survival in a gladiator pit, her House’s team fighting against another’s. Her team may be victorious and she may be alive but she still lives in a cell, living on gruel and tortured by her captors.
Rogue was kidnapped from Earth and dispatched to a rock at the end of nowhere to entertain the masses. No longer fertile due to a drug she has been transformed into a berserker. She still has friends who make her life bearable, but she is tormented daily as the lone woman in the fights.
The author builds a world cleverly bit by bit as the nature of Rogue’s situation is revealed. We learn about the different species she is fighting against and with and hear more of her personal story. Then she is thrown at the hardest House Team to beat and she knows her days are numbered.
This subject matter is handled well and the horror and banality of Rogue’s situation is conveyed to the reader. We cannot help but empathise with her situation, an ordinary girl from England suddenly out amongst the stars fighting for her life.
There is a cliff hanger but the next book is already available.
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