Rho, the newly-named Guardian of the planet Cancer, and her advisor, Mathias, travel from planet to planet, attempting to warn the other systems while at the same time avoiding attacks from an unknown and extremely hostile entity. Rhoma - or Rho, as she is called - and her bandmates are some of the only survivors of a brutal attack on one of their planet’s moons, an attack that Rho saw coming but was convinced was not real. The premise is intriguing, the universe is interesting, but I found it to be more style than substance.
Zodiac attracted me because I will always be the girl who watched one of the Star Wars movies every day for a week, and I am forever searching for YA novels that take place in space. In the case of Rhoma Grace, the heroine in Romina Russell’s action-packed new book Zodiac (available today from Razorbill), it is up to her - and the requisite gaggle of companions - to essentially save the entire universe.
It’s a commonly reoccurring theme in young adult literature - a teenaged girl discovers she is somehow special and must embark on a harrowing journey to save the known world.
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