Review: Nyxia

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen is about ten poor teenagers from all over the world that are brought together by Babel Corporation, a space organization that wants to train them to gather Nyxia--a substance that pretty much does everything. The only problem is that only eight of the ten can get to Eden, so they are pitted against each other in many trials. This story follows Emmett, a boy from Detroit who wants to win for his family.

This book was AMAZING. It hooks you from the first line and keeps you wanting more. Emmett is such an interesting and fun character to go on the journey with, but the other nine characters are also incredibly interesting to learn about. You get to slowly learn all their habits, backstories, reasons for fighting, and personalities. It's not too hard to keep them all straight, but it's a little challenge at the beginning because they're all just thrust at you at once.

The idea of nyxia is really interesting. What I got from it was it can form into practically anything, and there's tons that need to be mined from this Earth-like world called Eden. It's really cool reading about the different ways to use nyxia and how far you can go with manipulating it.

So I guess this is a bit like a sci-fi Hunger Games or Throne of Glass, where the kids learn and fight against each other to win spots on Eden. Alliances and nemeses form, and it's just all SO FUN AND INTERESTING!!! You definitely end up wanting multiple people to win + lose. (I personally loved Kaya and another surprise character I don't want to spoil).

There's a slight romance, but it doesn't really seem important to the story. Not much happened that was really needed, but it didn't seem too forced. I think it could've done without the romance, but it'll definitely make it interesting in the next book how that plays out.

Also, I just really want the next book now. I wanna know what happens next!!! It ends at such a good part!

Please read this book; you won't be disappointed.

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