You don’t normally expect a lot of heavy concepts in Middle Grade, especially with adventure stories such as this, but Rachel shows respect for her young audience by not shying away from issues of identity and trust, and even going into some of the political and tactical intrigues at play. They’re not always edge-of-the-seat, but she manages to draw you into the story and keep you turning pages. One thing in particular Rachel does well is to leave each chapter with a cliff-hanger. As an adult I enjoyed it, so I’m confident that my 11-year-old self would have eaten this up. It’s another pacy, action-packed Middle Grade story that hits all the right notes for that age group. I’ll start by saying if you enjoyed THE LOST PLANET, you’ll enjoy this sequel. Our heroes find themselves on strange planets with stranger inhabitants, confronted with vicious creatures, and working against the odds to save the lives of those they care about.
Things are not as they seem, and it soon becomes apparent to Chase and his friends that not everyone can be trusted. What seems like a fairly straight-forward mission goes dreadfully awry. But their time on the starship is about to get even more interesting as the captain has been called upon to moderate a territory dispute between two rival planets. His sister, on the other hand, remembers their parents, family outings, birthdays, and all the things Chase wishes he could recall. Which is doubly frustrating for Chase since he is suffering from severe amnesia, and remembers nothing of his life prior to the events of the previous book. He has been reunited with his younger sister, but she’s not proving easy to get along with. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.After the events detailed in THE LOST PLANET, Chase Garrity and his friend Parker are now living on the starship Kuyddestor. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.
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