Review: An Engaging Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2012
This is really a sci-fi detective novel.  The protagonist is a human, earth born archeologist who is digging up secrets on a long lost alien civilization.  As the novel starts, he is dragooned by the dominant alien alliance in that area of space to work with them digging up this same civilization's secrets.As the novel progresses, he begins to understand why the humans are so reviled by the Alliance and begins to unravel a plot that could mean the end of all life in the Alliance and on Earth and an evil that has been thousands of years in the making.As other reviewers note, there are some editing problems, but they don't really distract from the story.  I would have given it a 5 star rating, but the ending was a little too fast (seemed like the author was out of time and just wanted to wrap it up) and the love story was a little forced.Still, I really enjoyed the story.  It kept me engaged the whole way through.  I definitely recommend the book and at $3 it's a steal.