Review: SciFi Action Adventure - First Contact - Mobilizing humanity to fight for survival
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
This is a good old fashioned science fiction military adventure for the young at heart. Definitely YA material. Sex is non existent. Complicated human relations are kept to a minimum. There are no bad guys apart from the aliens.You feel you are back in Star Trek where everybody behaves and only the bad guys try to stab others in the back. Nice to know humanity can work together seamlessly!This is not the real world. Technology is developed and implemented in month, sometimes hours. A planet is colonized with 3 million people and a self sustaining infrastructure built in 3 years. Yeah, right.If you can get over the Utopian human relations and the too fast pace of technological development then you are in for an entertaining read. Lots of space battles with just enough detail to keep you going. It never goes on and on as some authors love to do.in fact, the story moves very quickly and you want to know what happens next. As soon as you get the idea of what will happen you are on to the next scene or chapter, where it already has happened. No pussy footing around here. I loved it.Highly recommended for the young from ages 14 to 90. I gave it only 4 stars for stretching my credulity of the goodness of human nature and unrealistic technological pace. Enjoy. It was a fun read and I was sorry to discover that the next book in the series comes out on 29th July 2014 with the third book scheduled for 25th November 2014. Damn, I'll just have to wait!