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She’s a pragmatist by necessity and doesn’t have the luxury of lofty reasons to be on a treasure-stealing expedition that might very well get her killed, but she’s more than she seems just as the stuck-up stuffy Oxford boy is more than he seemed to her, as well. She’s street savvy and toughened by life. On the other side of the coin is Amelia Radcliffe, school dropout, scavenging the abandoned city desert of Chicago for her very existence, and on a mission to secure enough alien artifacts to earn her sister’s release from slavery and worse. He has a love for learning and gaining knowledge, but also a determination to prove his father right or at least finish his work to keep people safe from an unknown alien threat. Jules makes himself an authority on the Undying Race. Jules Addison is brilliant, highly-educated, pampered and somewhat naive, but he is convinced his scholarly father is right about the dangers of rushing in and accepting the Undying Race’s message as a no strings attached gift. They are enemies and a canyon separates their ideology in many ways, but its amazing how the race for survival and survival of their race strips back the differences and leaves them surprisingly out for the same end. This unlikely pair of adventurers are as opposite as it gets. The story is told from two teenage perspectives. A message through a portal that leads to another world after one failed attempt to send a colony ship out seems like a godsend and people aren’t willing to look a gift horse in the mouth, save one man, and he’s ignored because he’s not telling people what they want to hear. The beginning introduces an earth a little into our future that is just limping by- population restrictions, few resources to share among many, a knowledge that in only a few generations, they will be extinct. For all its excitement, this was also a layered slow-burn thriller that leads to a king of a cliffhanger. There was a bit more Indiana Jones going on, lots of action/survivor elements, and some twists that all kept me riveted. Unearthed was not much like I was expecting. A message from an alien race, a race to find and decipher artifacts from that race through a booby-trapped alien temple, dangerous artifact scavengers, and… that’s only the first leg of this race for humanity.