A review by mjfmjfmjf
The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper

3.0

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.