She is in dire need of a transplant, and the only way to get her to the top of the donor list is for Emmett to be a part of Babel’s mission. Emmett’s family works hard, they work so very hard, but they still can’t afford his mother’s hospital bills. This book doesn’t shy away from it or any other hard topics. Systemic poverty in America is real and the system keeps people in that demographic over and over and throughout generations. But Emmett isn’t in it for the money Emmett is doing it to save his mother. All of these children come from broken places, and all are desperate to enter this program, because the company, Babel, is offering them an immense amount of money. Nyxia stars a young black boy from Detroit, Emmett, who is one of ten teens that are a part of a space mission. This book also feels a bit like a mixed hybrid of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, The 100, Divergent, but, in my opinion, it does it way better and more realistically and much more emphatically. Babel then wants the children to mine Nyxia, which is the new super resource and is a substance that can create anything. Then, they are sent on a mission to land on a new planet, Eden, where the life forms, Adamites, won’t harm children. Well, Scott Reintgen spins that story backwards, and created a company, Babel, that brings ten teens from all around the world, speaking different languages, from different cultures, and gives them headsets that translate everything for them. God, realizing what they are attempting, scatters them all around the world and makes them all speak different languages, hence our world today. Basically, after the Great Flood happened, a bunch of people came together and agreed to build a tower that would touch Heaven itself. Growing up, you guys might have learned about the story of Tower of Babel as a lesson about why we speak so many different languages. This book is the YA Sci-Fi book I’ve been waiting for my entire life. I can’t wait for everyone to be able to read this in September when it releases. This is easily one of the best books I’ve read all year. They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.” “But they don’t tell you the pain comes with you.

ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.