We don’t get to see the alien world (yet), except in simulations, but it appears to be just as unfriendly as the games run by the Babel overseers, except fatalities are real.Okay, enough cliches, the plot is the best part of the book What is Babel up to? Is it just wealth? Is there something else going on behind the scenes (that I can assure is very much the case)? As Emmett peels back the layers of Babel, we get to see what’s behind the curtain. But…we spend so much time watching what’s going on, we fail to wonder about the real driving force behind the whole show. As Emmett and Co unravel more of the plot, the more we boo and hiss. They build relationships along the way, and Emmett’s friendship with his roommate Kaya is a treat Watching them build relationships and working as teams is a big part of the book, and watching their creative solutions to some of the problems are fun. Each person has their own motivations for being there, and each has the same drive as Emmett. People get hurt, and it can affect their standings, badly if they are out for too long. There are no guarantees about who will win, and they are often brutal, with no prisoners taken. The contest between the characters is well written and tense.The other characters seem very different at first glance, and part of the early part of the book involves Emmett finding out how they are all linked He’s driven to succeed, courtesy of his family’s slave heritage, hammered into him by his father who works three jobs to make a life for Emmett and his dying mother. He’s likeable, self aware, and just smart enough to know something is going on, without easily figuring it out. Emmett, the main character who tells us the whole story, is a great MC.
In fact, by the end of the story, you will realise we’re just scratching the tip of the iceberg. This is no teen “fight school” type book, it goes way deeper. On the flight, he has to compete against nine other teens for the right to go mine, with the two losers being sent back to Earth with a mere pittance.
Turns out there’s more to the plan than first thought. Emmett Atwater, a poor kid from Detroit, is chosen to go to said planet to mine for Nyxia for a period of time, with the reward being the kind of wealth he could never have imagined.
Their secret (other than immense wealth)? A substance called Nyxia, found on an alien planet, which can be manipulated to do almost anything. Hang on, Babel has taken over Google and taken over the world. In a not too distant future, Google has taken over the world.
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