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The Creative Fire (2012)

by Brenda Cooper(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1616146842 (ISBN13: 9781616146849)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pyr

series

Ruby's Song

review 1: The 'Creative Fire' is a spaceship, where thousands of people have been living out their lifetimes while flying through space. Ruby is a 'gray', the lowest level of humankind on the ship, much akin to slaves. When a tragedy happens to part of the ship where Ruby is and she meets a 'red', a person from a higher level, she must make some life-altering decisions. Ruby is a rebel who wants to save the ship, to make things more equal on the ship for her fellow 'grays' as well as others in the 'red' and 'blue' levels, and most of all, she wants to develop her talent for singing. The ship is nearing home, after many generations of being away, and Ruby is instrumental in the rebellion to make everyone be more 'equal' in preparation for their arrival at home. To do so, Ruby must m... moreake life-threatening and life-altering decisions, and she must have courage and inner strength when it seems that things are going all wrong. This is the first in a series, subtitled 'Book One of Ruby's Song', and although this book has a satisfying ending, the reader will want to know what happens to Ruby next.
review 2: I like Brenda Cooper and expect to keep on reading her - but this is not one of her better books. That said, its YA and YA is apparently harder to pull off than complex world-building sf (which I like better and Cooper is quite good at). Then again this is YA with sex - so perhaps it wasn't supposed to be YA. Anyway - this is a multi-generational ship supposedly on a there-and-back-again voyage. And our hero Ruby is supposed to have been inspired by Eva Peron and Evita - something I'm not really familiar with - which probably subtracts a bit from my enjoyment of the book. What makes me think of this book as YA is how little it goes into the complexities of shipboard life - both the nuts and bolts and the politics - something Cooper can certainly have done if she wanted to. Not Rite of Passage but I will definitely look for the sequel. less

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