Review: Good Premise - Terrible Execution
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
Moon Wreck - Secrets of Ceres follows the main characters as they fly to the asteroid Ceres. There they meet the companion ships of the one wrecked on the moon, and their occupants. A fleet of ships traveled from a distant solar system to protect Earth from an alien threat. A threat that will arrive in exactly 268 years. This statement gets repeated over and over. I’m not sure what bothers me, the fact that the date when the alien threat will discover Earth is so exact, or that this warning is flashed to the reader every other page. The reader quickly becomes desensitized of any reaction to the threat.Another disconcerting aspect is the character's interests. One is obsessed with weapons, so every other thought he has is about the possibility of seeing the ship's weapons. This guy only thinks about how much he misses his sister (or wife and kid, I can't keep it straight) and how much he wants to get his hands on alien weapons. That's it. He doesn't get hungry or tired, doesn't get frustrated with anything, just thinks about his sister and weapons. And how much he knows his friend wants to get back to his wife and kid. It's painful to read.