The World According to Ellie Quin by Alex Scarrow

Available only through Kindle.

This is the second book in the Ellie Quin series and Scarrow is getting into his stride and the pace of the story is picking up.   At the end of book one Ellie had finaly made it to the City of New Haven and promptly been mugged and left destitute.   Into her life rides a saviour in the shape of Jez, a street-wise pole dancer at a seedy night club.   Both girls have an ambition to get off this backwater planet but their every attempt to raise themselves above subsistance level seems doomed to fail.   In the background Scarrow runs a second story line which must surely become more prominent as the tale progresses.   The Administration, the self- appointed government of the human occupied part of the galaxy, has discovered that due to the genetic pattern of the embryo from which Ellie was born she poses some, as yet unspecified, threat to them and they send their top assassin Deacon to dispose of her.   As the book ends the girls, unaware of the danger that is approaching, team up with Aaron, the shuttle pilot who rescued Ellie in book one, in a money making venture that they hope will provide the cash to take them off the planet.

This story is classed in the trade as "Young Adult" but I have found it very enjoyable which is all that matters!