Tag: Aliens

  • Review of “Enigma”

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    Enigma is the second book in the Trigon Disunity trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It jumps forward a little in time from the previous book as it starts with humanity having made contact with several colonies after the discovery of other humans in space that occurred at the end of the previous book. The story…

  • Review of “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars”

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    To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is the first book in the Fractal Verse by Christopher Paolini. It tells the story of Kira Navarez, a young exobiologist who is working on a survey mission on a supposedly uncolonized planet. When she stumbles upon an unknown alien relic things start getting difficult though. The rest…

  • Review of “Emprise”

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    Emprise is the first book in the Trigon Disunity by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It tells the story of an alternate earth, an earth where something caused a near-catastrophic collapse in the mid-twentieth century. A few decades after the collapse a former astronomer in the United States hears an unusual signal coming from deep space. After…

  • Review of “Misery Plaza”

    This next one was a bit of a doozy. Misery Plaza by J. J. Alo tells the story of a man who is being forced to face his past. After being found by a previous associate the man, now going by the name Potter, takes his two young children and leaves town knowing the law…

  • Review of “Keep Close”

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    The book Keep Close by Kristen Wade was odd in that it doesn’t follow the stereotype for the typical story about an alien invasion. I say that because it doesn’t reveal the existence of the aliens right away and instead builds the tension for a while before the reveal. The story is about two teenagers,…