Qualify, Vera Nazarian
Qualify, Vera Nazarian
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Qualify

Author: Vera Nazarian

Narrator: Sofia Willingham

Unabridged: 22 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/05/2019


Synopsis

You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.

If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted . . . Such as curing your mother's cancer.

There is only one problem. Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she's a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she's come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she's been crushing on, and who doesn't seem to know she exists.

Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

You Qualify or you die.

About Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian is an award-winning artist and a writer with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy. A member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords of Rainbow, outrageous parodies, including Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret, and the high-octane adventure YA/teen dystopian apocalyptic science fiction series The Atlantis Grail, which has been optioned for film and is in development as a major motion picture franchise or TV series. Vera lives in a small town in Vermont.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on February 06, 2017

I downloaded this book because I really liked the concept - a giant asteroid is heading for Earth and the people from Atlantis, who have left Earth thousands of years ago have returned to help out - but they can only rescue a million people. The powers that be decided those aged 12 to 19 can compete......more

Goodreads review by Em on August 12, 2024

13/5-22 I have no words except this was perfection 2/2-23 I’M LITERALLY CRYING BECAUSE I FINALLY FOUND THIS BOOK IN A PHYSICAL COPY I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO BUY IT 23/5-23 It’s been a year since I read this book and I still think about it daily 13/8-24 My first reread and, yes, I still loved it.......more

Goodreads review by Eureca Laurice on April 19, 2015

It’s a long story that could have been cut short. I didn't skim, I swear by the old Gods and the new ones. Its part boring, I don't know if my friends here (in Goodreads) will read this, but I'm sure hell not. The writing is atrocious, that on first few chapters they'll decide to dnfed this already. B......more

Goodreads review by S.A. on July 22, 2020

Excellent dark science fiction. The premise of the story is that earth is going to wiped out by an asteroid and only the children could qualify to go on rescue ships to the planet of Atlantis. The story is told from the point of view of Gwen and her siblings and from that we learn that Qualification......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on November 09, 2017

An asteroid is speeding toward Earth, and its impact will cause humanity's extinction. Shortly before impact, space ships carrying the descendants of Atlanteans (it really was a real place on Earth! except then they left for another planet!) appear above major cities and alert everyone that they can......more