Review: PW + SM + OS + AT = Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
I only read a couple books like this one even though my son never grew tired SciFi books. He told me that you needed only four characters for SciFi book: a pretty young woman (PW), her defender (SM), and old scientist (OS), and an alien threat (AT).Add a friendly alien to the character list and you have “Terror on Arrival” by Kyle Robertson.The books I enjoy the most are those with a good plot line, which flows freely.  I am also quite enthralled when the author allows me to stand in the shadows and observe the actions.Mr. Robertson’s book tries to meet my criterion for a good book except for a couple small problems.First, I found the flow to be more like a riffle in my favorite trout stream; a riffle that routinely steals my favorite Zonker fly. In this story, it was the dialogue of the French Scientist (The Darwin Warrior.) I finally skipped any attempt at the French dialogue like I walk around the riffles to fish the productive downstream side.Secondly, I was never completely able to enter the shadow that I mentioned. I feel that I was hindered by the author’s use of the third party in much of the dialogue. I felt that I was being told the story not observing it from the shadows.However, I think this book contains an exciting plot and I would recommend it to SciFi fans. Thanks to this book, I am adding a sprinkle of SciFi books to my reading bucket list.