Legacy of Mars: Mars Ascends by D M PrudenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I received an ARC of this book. What follows is an honest review.
Legacy of Mars picks up where the previous book Mars Ascends takes place. It is a few years after those events. Our hero Melanie has taken a political position that was only supposed to be a figurehead but instead she has had to take a much larger role. Her friends (Dani and Felix) and her biological clone (Adrian) come to Mars to visit her. Adrian is only 4 years old but has the appearance of a teen because the cloning process accelerates aging. Melanie wants to find a cure so tries to take time off to help Felix (the only synthetic human) to come up with one.
At the same time, back on Terra (we would call it earth), they are fighting each other over land that is just not going to support them. They come under attack by a meteor thrown out of its path and aimed at Terra. They destroy it but start to think Mars is attacking them so they try to go to war with them.
One might think that with all this going on, one would need to have read the previous books. As I said in my review for the previous book, what you have to know is provided for you at the appropriate time and blended in to the the story nicely.
I would recommend it to most anyone. While there is not as much violence in this book as the last, there is still some. For that reason, parents of young teens and below might want to read it first to approve it. It is not a teen book but I would say some might be attracted to it.
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