Dove Alight (Dove Chronicles Series #3)

by Karen Bao

Overview

The action-packed finale of this explosive sci-fi series for fans of Ender’s Game and Star Wars.

Shy, introverted Phaet Theta has gone from being a top student to an interplanetary fugitive to the reluctant but fierce leader of a revolution. With the Earthbound on their side, she and her friends finally have a chance at toppling the evil leaders who’ve held the Moon captive for decades. But as the death tolls rise, the cost of the war weighs heavily on Phaet, even as she’s forced to lead her siblings and Wes, the love of her life, into terrible danger.

Phaet started this war because she lost someone she loved. Will she have to lose another to end it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780698152793
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Series:	Dove Chronicles Series , #3
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring ecologist. She’s three years older than her brother and sixty years younger than her violin. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she recently graduated from college in New York where she studied environmental biology. Karen began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen. Dove Alight is her second novel. Visit her at karenbaobooks.com.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2017
Gr 8 Up—The final installment of the series opens five months after the events of Dove Exiled, with Phaet leading the charge to rescue those loyal to the resistance known as Dovetail from one of the few bases left on the Moon. With more mouths to feed and resources quickly dwindling, Dovetail must locate supplies soon if they plan to defeat the Committee. Their only chance of survival is finding allies on Earth. Help is not the only thing that Phaet is hoping to come across on Earth. Since she left Wes there months ago, she has longed to see him again but knows she can't let anything keep her from completing their final mission of taking down their lunar oppressors. The heroine has to learn to balance her many competing identities as she protects her family, figures out her feelings for Wes, and takes back the Moon from the clutches of the Committee. Bao's writing will leave teens on the edge of their seats right from the first scene, and it remains consistent to the very end. As always, the characters are incredibly fun to watch as they interact and go on adventures while fighting for their cause. VERDICT An action-packed yet satisfying conclusion to the series that should please fans. Purchase where the previous books have done well.—Kristee Copley, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC

School Library Journal

2017-02-14
In this trilogy closer, Phaet, the East Asian teen symbol of the resistance, faces losses and the final battles over the fates of the moon and Earth.The jargon-packed (Pygmette speeders, an Omnibus ship, the Singularity, "the Pandora Particle Accelerator, or PaPA") in medias res opening of a Dovetail resistance mission may send readers back to Dove Exiled (2016) for a refresher. Despite the successful mission, Dovetail is running into supply troubles, including one of troops—they've started a draft and are dipping to soldiers as young as 15. Phaet proposes a risky mission to Earth to form an alliance with Battery Bay, which would bring her back to love interest Wes, a white boy. Before any deal can be struck, villainous, brown-skinned Lazarus strikes as part of a Committee-Pacifia alliance attack. Lazarus is a clichéd, cartoonish bad guy ("Love has made you soft"), which makes it unfortunate how predictably he comes back. Once the Earth sojourn is out of the way and they start engaging directly with the Committee back on the moon, the stop-and-go jerky pacing begins to smooth out. Of the handful of climactic twists, all are effective except for one too heavily foreshadowed and artlessly deployed—unfortunately, that one is the final twist. The epilogue is one of the few places where this book deviates from the formula of the standard teen-dystopia trilogy conclusion. Notably diverse cast aside, derivative and predictable. (Science fiction. 12-18)

Kirkus Reviews