ISBN: 9780007443499
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Pages: 356
Living on Earth is a life sentence.
Home only to those who can’t escape:
Throwbacks, Neanderthals
... And me.
Meet me, Jarra. Earth
girl.
It’s the year 2788, and
the universe is divided into two different kinds of people: the Norms, who can
portal between other planets, and people like me, the one in a thousand who are
born with an immune system which doesn’t allow us to leave planet Earth.
Norms come back to Earth
for one reason: to study human history. But only if they don’t have to interact
with us “Neanderthals” along the way.
Well, I’ve got a plan to
change all that.
Call me whatever you like,
I’m every bit as good as they are.
And I’m going to prove it
to them.
I
received an ARC copy of Earth Girl by Janet Edwards from Harper Voyager for
review, which I absolutely LOVED reading! I really enjoyed reading about the
futuristic technology featured in this book, such as the Portals, which are
used to travel quickly from sector to sector, planet to planet and country to
country on Earth, within minutes. Another piece of futuristic technology that I
really enjoyed reading about were the Lookups, which were futuristic versions
of tablet computers used to watch “Vids”, receive video calls and mail
messages. The varying careers in Earth Girl were really interesting as well,
though I probably would have chosen to study History like Jarra! I especially loved
the concept of the Pre-History projects that were on Earth, as I have always
loved Archaeology! My favourite part of Earth Girl was the class system. Your
class depended not only on which clan you were from, and what job you did but
also on something that couldn’t be modified. Your immune system. Even though I
found it quite hard to believe some of her actions, my favourite character was
Jarra because of her strength and her utter determination. Although I really
like the mass market cover of Earth Girl, I prefer my ARC cover. I feel that my
ARC cover subtly portrays many aspects of the book within, such as the discrimination
of the “Apes”, which is represented with the silhouette of Jarra, insinuating
she is just nameless “Ape”.
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