Review: Mulan with spaceships!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2012
I read this book, and I have to say that I loved it.  This book is about many things, it is about striving to reach for your goals no matter how impossible it seems, but it is also about loving someone for who they are no matter what.  The Earth we know is gone, humans have moved to a different solar system, and women are once again back to being wives and mothers due to the shortage of them at one point.  Kris wants to be a navigator for a ship, not a wife for an old man, and her twin brother wants to be a musician, so Kris cuts off her hair and takes her brothers place at school.  Kris' roommate North is one of two boys at the school that are kind to her, and she finds herself falling in love with him, the biggest problem with that is that North thinks that she is a he, and he is not gay.  Kris has to deal with her feelings for North, keep her secret and stay alive from a horrible bully to keep her brother safe from losing his hand.This book is very well written, but I would say that parents should be aware that it is not for everyone, there are some sexual situations, nothing too explicit or over done, and some violence, at one point the bully threatens to cut out Kris' eyes and tongue, BUT there is very little actual violence or gore.  I actually enjoyed reading this book, and went back and re-read it so I would highly recommend this to even adults looking for something to read.