Mars Burning – Cidney Swanson

We’re starting to get to the end game of this series. The Earth chancellor thinks Jess and Pavel are dead, so she’s trying to figure out how to destroy Mars and put an end to any final threads the two may have left on Earth. Meanwhile, they’re desperately trying to help Ethan figure out how to disable the satelites around Mars.

In the meantime, there’s an election on Mars, and the Mars chancellor’s opponent decides to contact Earth on his own. (That was a hilariously dead on impression of certain government types from recent years, written before that actually happened. Some of the future dystopian stuff is hitting way too close to home these days…)

There are two more books left, so things should start moving pretty quickly now – I’m definitely interested to see how things wrap up, and how the Marsians end up getting themselves back to Mars.