Really just not my kind of thing--YA-ish dystopian in the style of The Maze Runner et al. I must have requested it by accident.

This was a nice start to a new series. I always like these sort of books, but somehow this one failed to totaly hold my attention. I'm not sure that I would move on to Book 2.

Thank you for sending me this ARC.

i really enjoyed reading this book, it was a great start to the series, it introduced great characters and had a great plot. I look forward to more from the author.

The story wasnt bad, it just wasnt really my kind of thing.

It had way to much "romance" in it, which kinda ruined the story for me.

The premise of the story with the Aurorians, science and future world had my interest piqued, however it didn't have a steady enough pace and I struggled to finish this so I did end up skimming a lot of the beginning while still being able to understand the goings-on.

The story started like any story does, slow, but it didn't pick up until about 45% through the book, then it just kind of went down again and didn't pick back up until around 65 - 70% through. There isn't much character development and the story felt a bit rushed, because it is a lot of scientific information up front and a lot of world building information, there was a lot of food talk and that did appear to take up a good portion of the end and some of the beginning, so I skimmed through those parts.

The main character likes a guy from where they live, underground and kisses a few times, but upon leaving to go above ground she's falling in love with another Aurorian and forgets about the other guy for a while then he just gets mentioned briefly. There was quite a bit of romance, which isn't really my jam, but I'm sure other readers may like it, but to me it seemed forced and a bit of a turn off.

There is a lot of information gathering near the end (about 75% through) and it got exciting, but overall it was not something I could really enjoy as it was hard to connect with any of it.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

The book takes place in 2209. Years after World War III, a planet crashing into our sun, and a solar flare disintegrating our atmosphere have forced the last humans in America to live in an underground cave system they named Inanna. Events the author gives you just enough information about to successfully build the backstory of Inanna. The details also come as a tease to your imagination and curiosity. Intended not only to grant comprehension of Inanna's existence but to provide understanding in why Inanna must evolve. One who does not learn from the past is doomed to repeat it. I genuinely believe the author should write companion books on each of those events. I would be first in line to purchase each of them.

What stood out most to me was the detail in which the author takes you through the backstory of the Aurorean people and how their species was created. It was so believable that I stopped reading the book at one point to research the Tardigrade. I found out they exist. Tardigrades do have a unique ability to survive in extreme temperatures, immense pressure, and in the vacuum of space. As well as the ability to put themselves into a cryptobiosis state. How many science fiction books teach you something cool about the real world around you? The author took amazing, factual scientific details and turned it into a very probable and captivating post-apocalyptic Earth story you cannot put down.

At the time the book opens Kimber is 23 years old. A young woman in a world where humans can no longer inhabit the earth above ground. Only Auroras like herself can walk the surface. What was intended to be a symbiotic union between Humans and Auroreans has degraded in recent years into an intense and strained relationship. The rules in Inanna do not allow for an Aurora to join the government, nor have representation aside from the Mothers in city council meetings. With each meeting, they lose more rights as an autonomous race among the humans in Inanna. On the cusp of rebellion and uprising, Kimber is tasked by her ailing mother to venture out into the desolate Earth to find evidence from the counsel's past to dismantle their power. To bring the people of Inanna the truth. So they could develop and grow their community and species into the new world it was meant to be.

I strongly recommend this book to everyone. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

After trying to begin the book, I was unable to continue due to my lack of interest. I will try to pick it up again at a later date, and if I am able to continue reading, I will post a more detailed review here.

I am extremely sorry, but this was not what I thought it would be and it doesn't suit my reading preferences. Thank you very much for the free e-ARC.

Overall, I enjoyed this Young Adult book. The pacing of the book was good. The author did a good job in building the world and drawing the audience into this post-apocalyptic world.

The reader follows Kimber and Tristen as they journey to Fort Knox to uncover the secrets that can save the Auroreans from the human society that created them. As these new human hybrids become older and more mature, the human counsel is steadily taking their rights away from them. There is a slight insta-love development between Tristen and Kimber and a possible love triangle between these two characters and a human. Some parts of the story felt a little rushed. The ending was definitely rushed and somewhat unbelievable. I think there would have been more resistance from the counsel members and the Auroras as the hybrids were fighting for their rights.

I believe it is worth the read and I am interested in reading the next book in the series to see what else takes place and see how this situation is resolved.

I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Oh, where to start.. where to start. Okay, so, Kimber definitely intrigued me enough to want to read it. However, once I dove into it.. I was just completely bored. At first, Kimber seemed kind of interesting and the world intrigued me as well. It's just sucks because for the first 25% of the book all you get is information dumped on you. Endless information that you would rather skip through just to find something interesting. Even if it's a small little piece of excitement..

Besides that, this book is all about an adventure. I guess you could say it had some type of romance in it but honestly it didn't matter to me. Then this book had zero drama. None whatsoever which made this journey completely boring. Nothing happened except the damn journey.

In the end, this felt like a super boring documentary on watching paint dry because nothing really happened in this book to spark any interest of mine. It had potential to be somewhat entertaining and interesting due to this world but it fell flat.

This has a decent premise, but it's so bogged down by the science behind it and giving us the entire history that the plot and characters aren't well developed. I love that the author really put time into how the world could come to be uninhabitable and how to tweak DNA to create a human hybrid that could withstand the new atmosphere. It's clear that she wanted it to be as realistic as possible. But with everything focused on that, the story became simple and the characters had no depth.

Kimber is a human/snake hybrid, which is pretty cool. She has an almost boyfriend, but then immediately forgets about him when she and another Aurorean go on a journey to get some science data. We didn't get to know anything about Tristan, just that he's a hybrid too.

The journey had almost no drama; there aren't any creatures out to get them, no one got severely injured, nothing to make me excited while reading this. I'd have liked some enemies to fight and some build up of the romance. This just didn't have any meat to it.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is really nice to read. The setting of this story was very well described and I always felt like I could see the described surroundings while reading the book. The writing style is pleasant and very fluently to read. The characters are good described and interesting as well.

I enjoyed Kimber’s story in the crazy world of 2209. Kimberly is part of 22 genetically modified humans that were created to save humankind (200 humans are left) after the destruction of the ozone layer. Hingey gave a ton of details (I enjoy science so I liked all the details but I can see where other people might find these details too much) and once part two gets moving it was really interesting. I think my only issue was when the POV would change between paragraphs but I enjoyed reading those other POV’s too which added to the depth of the story but were hard to jump into and then back out of POV’s. I will be looking forward to part II.

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The concept of the book is pretty cool with the end of the world due to a flare from a wayward planet being engulfed by the sun and only the genetically modified humans, like Kimber can return to the surface to get supplies. The rest of the humans live underground, never to see the sun again. But there is discontent as the humans try to take away the rights of the Auroreans (folks like Kimber).

Sadly there were a few things that detracted from the story. It is mostly told through the view of Kimber but several times it switched to her mother, Kimberly, Caleb, and Tristan. That would have been fine, except that it would happen in the middle of a paragraph and I would get confused, especially when it was between Kimber and Kimberly. The names were too similar and my mind mixed them up.

The other thing was some of the scientific info dumps that happened right when Kimber is on the run to find out more about the past and get leverage to fight against the council. It was interesting but not really the right place to put it.

I still enjoyed the book though, especially the overland travel of Kimber and Tristan (with the descriptions of the past civilization stuff) and I feel like the series has promise.

Review posted on Goodreads (see link) and also below. Thank you for sending me this ebook - I think there is potential in this series with a little work!

"I was provided with an eARC by NetGalley in return for honest review.

The premise of this series really drew me in and I loved the concept of the Auroreans, the science of it felt futuristic but beliveable. I wasn't expecting to feel so tense in what is technically a barren wasteland, but the author succeeded in holding the tension.

However, my overall feeling of the book was that it needed a final editing session to polish it up. There was lots of info- dumping, especially at the beginning that I had to push past to get to the good stuff. And there were a number of instances where descriptions could have been condensed in order to keep the plot flowing. It was nice to see the story through a few different eyes and it added depth, but in places this was in the form of a random paragraph planted in the middle of Kimber's narrative which was a little confusing.

I think the novel improves in the second half as we get into the action, and there's real potential for the later books to be great, fun reads if the writing style is worked on because the ideas themselves are really unique and clearly thought out."

When I started reading this book I had obscenely high hopes that this would be what would pull me into a whole new direction with my reading. Unfortunately, it didn't meet that expectation and I ended up not finishing this read. The author had an amazing idea, one that I was eager to see play out but when I reading it I got this feeling that the author didn't really know what direction she wanted to head to. It started off well enough she laid out the story and explained how the children underground had their DNA grafted and why but she lost me when she got to the whole romance part. It felt forced and not to mention she kept going back and forth in the paragraphs between Kimber's point of view and Caleb's. It all felt rather weird to me and I didn't particularly care for the writing style.

i really enjoyed this book; the author did an incredible job describing the scenery and locations that the main characters were located in. The storyline is very interesting and i am looking forward to the second book in the series.

Thanks to Netgalley Smith Publicity for providing an E-ARC of Kimber in exchange for an honest review.

I was really looking forward to reading this book. The premise sounded very interesting, but I could not relate to the characters. The story felt shallow at times, and there was too much info dumping.

Thanks to NetGalley and Smith Publicity for providing me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. My review is my own and not influenced by others.

3 Stars.

This book drawn my attention from the moment I saw the cover. The description sounded great because of the comparison with The Hunger Games and The Divergent Series, which I both like to read, so I was glad I got the opportunity to read the e-arc of this book.

The writer hit some very interesting topics like religions and gene modification but also fear. A quote which I find very interesting is:
‘’When people get scared, they will vote for everything. They will do anything in the name of control and stability. History has proven it over and over.’’

What I liked about the book is that you not only read the story through the eyes of Kimber, but also through the eyes of Caleb and Tristan, the characters however lacked depth, it stays shallow. The humor and interaction between the characters in this book was something I liked very much.

The writer has a way of describing things that gave me mixed feelings. Her descriptions are very accurate so there is less room for your own imagination, it can however help to get a feeling of the setting. You can literally see how everything looks like which can help to get into the story. However, the descriptions were in my opinion too long en it made my attention to slip away, something that I pity because the idea of this world was interesting.

The end gives enough possibility for the next book in this series.

I DNFed this book so no star rating will be given. This book had a good premise, but I felt the execution wasn't the best. It was loaded with descriptions and as I reader I felt frustrated because there was no room to create my own vision of the setting with all the detail given. I appreciate being able to try this book out, but its too frustrating for me to finish it.

Thanks to Smith Publicity for providing a digital ARC of Kimber in exchange for an honest review.

This book has a crazy unique world and a lot of potential, but the set up ruined it for me. Technically, Kimber's comprised of a Prologue and 2 parts but the entire first act just felt like an extended prologue. 2 act structure books can work when there isn't much action or plot in the first act, but normally it's to give us a feel for the characters.

Kimber doesn't trust us infer anything about its world or characters which means the majority of the book is just a line of someone or something being introduced, and then multiple paragraphs about their backstory. It makes it hard to connect with anything so when things actually do get interesting in the second part, you're too uninvolved to care.