Review: Looking forward to the full length novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
**A copy of Solar Storms was given to me free by the author in exchange for my honest review**I'm giving this prequel 3.5 stars but rounding it up to 4.  Since it is a prequel to the full length novel, ORBS, it's hard to rate the story being that we only get 25 pages to get an idea what's going on.  However, for a short story prequel, this was very well done.  I'm a very big fan of hard scifi, and even the reverse of that as long as the author can make a strong story with fairly realistic facts.  That being stated, I don't know much about solar storms so I can't say how much of this is based in fact vs. theory, but I did find it to be entertaining and the way it was explained made it seem very plausible to me.  I will definitely be reading ORBS because there are a few factors in this prequel that I'm very curious to see expanded on.  I really want to find out how Mars is involved as well as why the US President so fully rejected the idea of solar storms doing physical damage to Earth, and how she reacted to the actual storms and the devastation they caused.ORBS comes out tomorrow and I'll definitely be looking forward to continuing with this story as well as more by this author in the future.