And there had better be a sequel because I had no idea the book was ending. Okay, so I was soooo into this book that I didn’t notice I was reaching the end. Thank you to Netgalley, Simon Pulse and Caryn Lix for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Here's a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the Author's twitter. I'm curious to see what the author's next move is. My one final question is, will there be more for the characters? The ending left a lot to the imagination. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate this book, it's just not my new favourite. The cover caught my eye immediately, and the description sounded like something that would be right up my alley. If you like those things, you may find that you like this book as well.

I would say this book is a mix between Alien, and X-Men, but written for teenagers. Is that because of Stockholm syndrome or is that because they actually have a good reasoning? Is Omnistellar just another evil corporation? Only time will tell. At the beginning of the book Kenzie trusts the company and Sanctuary completely, but slowly the prisoners change her mind. That being said, the story was mostly solid, and I could easily imagine the world the characters were in, and the monster's that surrounded them. I couldn't quite picture the characters, and I really felt like I was missing something, like reading the second book in a series. I had a lot of questions while I was reading this book, and most of them were answered only with, it's a mystery how it happened. Kenzie is kidnapped by the prisoners, and used as a hostage to get what they want, until something more sinister shows up. All that changes one day, when a false alarm leads to a real emergency on the prison, when only her and her mother are on board.

A corporation called Omnistellar not only runs the lives of the prison guards, but also the lives of rich people everywhere, giving them a special citizenship that comes with a quality of life that others just don't get to have. Her life will be and always has been about her citizenship and the prisoners. From simply flying in the wrong place to murder, there's a wide variety of people in there, and Kenzie, the main character and only viewpoint, is a junior prison guard living on the station with her parents. Not just any space prison, though, this one holds hundreds of teens with special powers, that have been incarcerated for various reasons. Caryn Lix's debut young adult novel 'Sanctuary' is set in a space prison far above Earth.

Sanctuary by caryn lix