Synopsis:
When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying’s advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered.

For Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an alien culture offers unprecedented opportunity for study… as long as scavengers like Amelia Radcliffe don’t loot everything first. Mia and Jules’ different reasons for smuggling themselves onto Gaia put them immediately at odds, but after escaping a dangerous confrontation with other scavvers, they form a fragile alliance.

In order to penetrate the Undying temple and reach the tech and information hidden within, the two must decode the ancient race’s secrets and survive their traps. But the more they learn about the Undying, the more their presence in the temple seems to be part of a grand design that could spell the end of the human race…

Review:
I think I might have been on a different planet while I was reading the reviews for this book or possibly I was reading a completely different book to everyone else. Maybe both?
I thought I would break down my review and modify it to what others are using as selling points for this book.
Adventure Yeah okay to be fair there was a little bit of an adventure. But it’s kinda short lived or easily forgotten about when all the characters talk endlessly about the most stupid and irrelevant things that my brain literally left my head and searched for something interesting to do..
Lara Croft Okay Lara Croft is the pinnacle of bad ass chicks which really isn’t relevant in this story. At no point did Mia make me go ‘yes now here is a kickass female.’ NONE. So my only other guess is that the fact they raid a temple would reference Lara Croft but again with such a small similarity is it really worth comparing Lara Croft to Mia? Who was too emotional to be a kickass? Nope..
Cliff-hanger I don’t know… can you really say that? I saw the ending coming and to be honest it wasn’t even that intricate that I think a lot of people would have guessed it. Yawn!
Realistically I think the promotion words used for this book were inaccurate and very misleading.
To be honest I felt like there was way too much dialogue and not enough action. For something that everyone called an action packed book there was a lot of talking and walking and not a lot of kicking butt. And I like kicking butt and less talking so this didn’t really work for me. I also thought that there was more description behind the characters thoughts and memories than there was in the current surroundings they were in..? I mean I would much rather have the run down temple described to me than the fact Mia’s uncles wife, twice removed, family friends sister did this. See where I’m going with that? I mean can we kill both of the main characters family so they literally STOP TALKING ABOUT THEM. Please and thank you.
The whole puzzle solving this was very boring… I mean it’s probably one of the reasons why my brain checked out. The booby traps and the puzzles were ‘hard’ so to say for the characters but even harder for the reader to follow nor care about what was going on.
I also really hate it when characters hang out for what a week and they are in love and blah blah blah *vomit* this does not happen and I’m really over every single book having this fast paced romance cause you know what it ends up in? Divorce and self-resentment! I’ve been with my partner for 8 years and sometimes I don’t even love him, let alone after three days. No one loves that fast and I’m seriously struggling why they even bothered putting romance in here in the first place. It wasn’t needed.
Now that I got some of the harshness out of the way I liked the premise of the story. Temple raiders in space, yeah it’s unique and a good idea.
Besides the failure to kick ass and the instant love mess, I didn’t hate the main characters. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t love them either but they were reasonable enough to sit through a meal and not throw cake at them. Their dialogue was enjoyable and probably one of my favourite parts of the book. I think if they spent more time arguing and throwing each other sides of sass I wouldn’t be sitting her writing a crap-tacular review.
Overall, this book was just meh. The good aspects were outweighed by the bad and realistically there was a great deal of the book that we have all seen before. I hope the next book stays the fuck out of the characters heads. I don’t even like being in my own head let alone the characters.

Rating: 3/5
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781484758052