Rose is awakened with a kiss.  Sounds nice, right?  Well, not for Rose since she’s been asleep in her stasis tube for 62 years.

Rose awakens to find her world changed, her best friend and parents dead, and wild publicity swirling around her.  Rose is the daughter of two very wealthy parents and now is set to inherit their intergalactic empire.

The story is told in two ways.  First, we see how Rose interacts with her new surroundings and attempts to make new friends and second, in flashbacks of her life before she went into her stasis tube for the final time.

I enjoyed the flashbacks and seeing how her romance (as strange as it is) with Xavier developed.  My heart broke for them when they had to be apart when her parents placed her in stasis – sometimes for months at a time.

The author does a great job revealing plot points for maximum effect. Especially when it comes to the part in the story about an assassin trying to kill her. Who could want her dead?

The drawbacks included Rose’s behavior, at times bordering on childish and irritating – even though she has a reason to act the way she does, it still got on my nerves.

Another drawback was the fact this story is supposed to be SciFi.  There isn’t much SciFi expect talk of life and travel on other planets and a few new gadgets.  Not much else shows that life has changed from today.

All in all, this is a good read.  I stayed up all night in order to finish, which I rarely do. 

A final thought:  Some people aren’t fit to be parent.  Never has there been a truer statement than in Rose’s case.