That was the plan, anyway, until Phaet's world and everything she thought she knew began to crumble all around her. If she can rank high, she can free her mother and save her siblings. Luckily, she's warily struck up an alliance with one of the best new recruits, Wes Kappa, an unknown tranfer from Base I. People have been known to die in the incredibly brutal militia training, but Phaet hopes that if she does well and ranks high she will be able to earn more than she could have in her old position. The Militia polices the the bases and protects them from Earthbound attacks. Things change after her mother is arrested because the only way for Phaet to keep her younger brother and sister safe is by enlisting in the Militia as the youngest ever trainee at fifteen years old. She hasn't spoken much of anything in the nine years since her father died, but she lets her best friend, Umbriel, do most of the talking for her - and like others she stays off the government's radar.

Phaet (pronounced 'fate') Theta lives on Moon Base IV and works as a Greenhouse 22 Gardener Assistant. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen.Actual rating 2.5 rounded up to 3 full stars. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. She's three years older than her brother and sixty years younger than her violin. Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring ecologist. Suspenseful, intelligent, and hauntingly prescient, Dove Arising stands on the shoulders of our greatest tales of the future to tell a story that is all too relevant today. Until Phaet's logically ordered world begins to crumble. Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: that's the plan. Training is brutal, but it's where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider. The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth-dwellers. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government's radar.

She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. Join us on Thursday, February 26th, at 7pm as Karen Bao launches her debut novel, Dove Arising.

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