{"id":8448,"date":"2017-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:22:16","slug":"m-mars-one-missing-mayhem-by-jonathan-maberry-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"M = Mars One & missing & mayhem, by Jonathan Maberry (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookSix years to prepare,
\nTwo ships to Mars<\/a>,
\nOne pair of broken hearts…<\/p>\n

Of course, falling in love was an inconsiderate choice on his part, but how could Tristan’s teen self keep away from charming, lovely, phenomenal Izzy – even when he knew that he’d leave the planet forever at age 16?<\/p>\n

In this near-future Earth’s desperate gamble to find more room by settling on Mars<\/a>, not everyone agrees. Despite years of planning<\/a> and training and built-in safeguards, small disasters begin on the Mars One spaceships – how?<\/p>\n

Should humankind keep reaching for the stars?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 Mars One \/ Jonathan Maberry. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: As part of Earth’s first colony crew to Mars, 16 year old Tristan is elated, fully trained, and ready to launch… except that part about leaving girlfriend Izzy forever and worrying about anti-Mars violence coming to their Wisconsin hometown.<\/p>\n

Intense preparations for launch of Mars One’s first two ships have taken years, bypassed national borders, and been documented on all media. Even Izzy’s and Tristan’s “doomed romance” is a reality TV show (paying for her college, that’s why). And the Neo-Luddites have protested every step of the way, now bombing sites related to the mission.<\/p>\n

One of four teens on Mars One, Tristan has faith in his mom’s rigorous engineering safety checks – why are systems having problems in space?
\nThese families have been training together for so long – can they keep finding solutions?
\nPsychological testing over and over – no one aboard either ship wants the mission to fail, right?<\/p>\n

The further the two ships travel from Earth, the longer the communications delay becomes – goodbye, Izzy. Goodbye, everything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six years to prepare, Two ships to Mars, One pair of broken hearts… Of course, falling in love was an inconsiderate choice on his part, but how could Tristan’s teen self keep away from charming, lovely, phenomenal Izzy – even when he knew that he’d leave the planet forever at age 16? In this near-future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,68,51],"tags":[10,90,22,7,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,49,184,166,67,15,21,35,33,58,3,6,8,28,293],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-future","category-mystery","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-netherlands","tag-outer-space","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mars-one.jpg?fit=1399%2C2115&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8476,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}