The Loneliness of Distant Beings (Ventura Saga #1), Kate Ling, Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9781510200166
Ling’s first installment of the Ventura Series was released in 2016 and came out with a bang (its funny because it’s set in space). With a spectacular cover, I had pretty high hopes!
Seren is your typical sulky, moody and misunderstood teenager. What’s not so typical is that she, and a small population, are hurtling through space in a ship on a journey to a new planet.
Seren longs to feel the sun on her skin and experience a life outside of the ship she and her family live on. Her ‘mental instability’ (depression) gets her sent to the doctor where she firsts meets Dom – and now we have a story!
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The world building is simplistic and easy to understand with all questions answered, creating a fairly safe story line so far. Then we learn of the Breeding Programme where all members on the ship are chosen for each other through a computer to ensure strong lines to continue the human race. Seren has been assigned to the ship Captain’s son – who isn’t Dom.
The book is interesting and angsty and is perfect for a quick teenage read. There is a lot of kissing! If their lips aren’t locked, they’re definitely thinking about it.
Action packed and quite enthralling, this wasn’t a bad read. Warning: selfish and regularly immature heroine may cause extreme eye rolling but it’s not half bad.
The series has since been completed as the final release came out this year.
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