From Goodreads: What if you knew the exact date and time the world will end, what would you do? Sam Tucker was faced with that dilemma when he began getting visions of the Earth’s demise. Luckily for him, he was able to save his family and as many people as he could before the tragic event occurred, and he did so with the help of unknown visitors. With Earth now destroyed, Sam, his family and thousands of other lucky survivors must live the rest of their lives on a faraway planet in a Dome that simulates life on Earth. But Sam’s mind can’t seem to rest as a few questions arise. Why did the aliens save them? How did they know about Earth’s sure fate? And exactly what are they hiding?

Emma Tucker begged for an escape from her boring life but never in a million years did she think it would come at the destruction of Earth. Living on a new planet and finding it difficult to get rid of her rebellious habits, Emma finds herself making friends with a member of the alien race and it soon develops into an unexplainable love; a love that is more dangerous than she could ever imagine. While her father is searching for his own truths, she has no idea that she is stumbling on a truth of her own.

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Sparks has created wonderful characters and situations in her debut novel, the Dome, and I found myself unable to put the book down until its completion.  Told from two different viewpoints, the reader follows both Sam and Emma as they journey across the galaxy as the earth is destroyed.  Both father and daughter have many issues that they must work out, the newest of them being placed into the Dome to live freely on an alternate planet, but not all is what it seems.

Having both Sam’s and Emma’s perspectives of the situations surrounding them was refreshing—I really enjoy having multiple narrators within a story.  I also enjoyed that Sam and Emma didn’t rehash the same experiences, but actually had their own stories inside of the novel, creating two stories in one. 

This is a great adult novel (there are some graphic sexual experiences), complete with romance, suspense, and mystery.  I really did enjoy it and cannot wait for the sequel, especially since the end of the Dome left off in medias res.  Four stars.  

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.