SuitabookBelonging and exclusion
Noemi returns to Genesis after travelling with Abel and is shunned, while the story asks where and with whom people belong.
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Claudia Gray - Author
This is a fast-moving space adventure about responsibility under pressure: Noemi and Abel confront illness, pursuit and difficult alliances while trying to protect people across worlds. Alongside the action, the story considers whether identity depends on a body, origin or chosen relationships.
**AN OUTCAST FROM HER HOME.** Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel--the most advanced cybernetic man ever created--Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance. As the only soldier to have ever left the planet, it will be up to her to save its people...if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. **A FUGITIVE FROM HIS FATE.** On the run to avoid his depraved creator's clutches, Abel believes he's said good-bye to Noemi for the last time. After all, the entire universe stands between them...or so he thinks. When word reaches him of Noemi's capture by the very person he's trying to escape, Abel knows he must go to her, no matter the cost. But capturing Noemi was only part of Burton Mansfield's master plan. In a race against time, Abel and Noemi will come together once more to discover a secret that could save the known worlds, or destroy them all. In this thrilling and romantic sequel to *Defy the Stars*, bestselling author Claudia Gray asks us all to consider where--and with whom--we truly belong. *Defy the Worlds* is the second book in the Constellations series, the first of which is *Defy the Stars*.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fast-moving space adventure about responsibility under pressure: Noemi and Abel confront illness, pursuit and difficult alliances while trying to protect people across worlds. Alongside the action, the story considers whether identity depends on a body, origin or chosen relationships.
Noemi returns to Genesis after travelling with Abel and is shunned, while the story asks where and with whom people belong.
Abel is a sentient cybernetic being, while other technological applications and contrasting forms of artificial personhood shape the conflict.
Be aware of a pandemic, ostracism, capture, threats to individuals and whole worlds, technological manipulation and possible death-related material. The romance is described as significant but not overwhelming; the ending is a major cliffhanger.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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