A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth. He’s going to a place he’s never been before: home. Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It’s also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known. Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They’ve been “parented” by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight. But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma? Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds.
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The only home that Leo has ever known is on a space station. He, along with twins Orion and Libra, were born on the Moon 2 space station. Now, fifteen years later, Leo doesn’t just have to look down at Earth and imagine what it would be like to live there. The day that the three teens will be going back down to Earth is quickly approaching, and there are so many different feelings about what this might entail. Leo has always struggled with his strained relationship with his mother. For the most part, there is no relationship, at least not in the convential sense. He really doesn’t see her often, and when he does, she doesn’t treat him like what he imagines a mother son relationship should be. Leo’s real support system comes from his grandfather, and this is who he will be staying with when he lands on Earth.
There are so many different variables that go into the teen’s arrival back on Earth. For one, none of them know what gravity will feel like, and even more importantly, how it’ll affect their bodies. Not only that, but things are Earth are in dire straights. Humans have completely wreaked havoc on Earth, leaving it on the brink of being inhabitable. What will Leo’s future look like once he’s landed?
It did not take me long once I started reading Satellite to remember what Nick Lake does not like to use any punctuation marks or capitalizations. I also quickly remembered how distracting I found it to be when I read one of his other books. I liked this book, but found it a little torturous to read at times because of Lake’s writing style. Overall, I enjoyed the twists and turns that Lake created; learning about his mother’s story, the thought of a teen coming to Earth for the first time, it all seemed so great from the outside. However, the route that Lake took left me feeling a little ripped off. I really was hoping for a story that explored Leo coming back to Earth and his transition to normal life. That was not the case in the end. Overall, I recommend this book for teens that enjoy light science fiction.
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