M. L. WangFantasy · Fiction·b. 1992
Orbit
Synopsis
After barely escaping Earth, Joan and Daniel arrive at the Dakkabana space station, where the fallout of what they left behind is only beginning.
Daniel, still just thirteen, is forced to take up the Firebird mantle his father once carried and fight the enemies that come with it, while Joan discovers that leaving Earth hasn't freed her from being an outsider — on the planet Duna, her place is at the bottom of a rigid racial hierarchy.
Grieving, destabilized, and quickly becoming the station's most wanted fugitives, the two are forced into uneasy alliances with an unlikely handful of misfits as they race to unravel the mystery of Killer 31 and keep Firebird alive. The second and, so far, final book of M. L. Wang's Theonite duology, continuing directly from Planet Adyn.
How it reads
Prose complexity 3/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence


