Review: Nice start of a series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
The initial setting of this story is compelling: aliens took over the Earth, and only small portion of the humanity could stay free. However, the book take this idea at a higher level, asking the question, which is better: be free and fight, hardly being able to stay alive, or serve the alien overlords and have a higher standard of living?The plot is interesting, we follow Jet, who falls in the hands of the aliens becoming a slave warrior. I liked the action and the fighting scenes, they kept my attention. It's a pity that the book ended when it started to be really gripping.I found the book somewhat overwritten. The story started with Jet running from the Nirreths, but so much backstory was interwoven that it really slowed down the action. Throughout the book the author tends to repeat himself.There was one thing I had problem with: the aliens found the human women sexually attractive. I think it's coded in our genes that we are attracted to the other sex of our own species - it's one of our survival instincts to reproduce so our race can go on. I have my doubts it can work between such different species as Human and Nirreth.The aliens were interesting characters, especially because of their tails. I didn't learn very details about them, I think the size of the book didn't make possible for the author to go really deep.I enjoyed the book, and I want to know what happen next.