Review: Avoid this one
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
I read a ton of sci-fi and have read 1000's of sci-fi books and I think I can count on one hand the books I could not finish and this is one.  I am not overly picky and usually when people complain about grammar issues or unrealistic things like space battle ranges etc I am easily able to get past it and enjoy the overall plot or characters etc. But this book is simply too much. I do like the authors "voice" or whatever you want to call it and the characters are likeable even if seemingly completely unrealistic and undeveloped and I could see the author at some point creating something fun and worth reading but this isn't it.First, the writing is terrible - tons of run ons, confusing grammar etc. I get that it's not professionally edited but this feels like a bad first draft from a high schooler. Honestly I feel like I could give this to 5 friends and 90% of this could be cleaned up so c'mon! Second, the characters don't seem realistic - a CEO of a multinational conducting ops on the moon reacts like a teenager.  The characters feel like they are just there to move the plot where the author wants to go with zero concerns of their own or self interest or issues with what is happening. Third there are just too many things big and small that continuously come up that seem implausible. Aliens that can arrange an asteroid to clear the path for mankind to evolve but can't handle dealing with another race with lesser technology without us and whose big hurdle is hey you made it to the far side of the moon and we will at that point deal through whatever individual happened to stumble upon us. A CEO whose main reaction to this technological entity is to think wow now I can ride to the moon without those bumpy takeoffs vs even the slightest thought that wow my whole wealth and business etc may be destroyed by this and who negotiates with them by telling them all his concerns and discussing them with others while on their ship. A world president that takes a meeting with no questions asked at the drop of a hat and oh hey by the way we are going to land in a vehicle that no one has ever seen before with a person that no one can do any sort of background check on. It just gets to be too much to ignore when you feel like the author could have talked this stuff through with some friends and made things a whole lot better. Any of these could be ignored but all together it reaches the breaking point. Sorry if this seems harsh, I know time and effort goes into everything but this needs a lot of improvement - hopefully it will get there.