Review: An interesting short story, but not as described.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2012
This story was one that was described as "Out of the galactic equator comes a race intent on harvesting every last human on Earth. Now on the longest night one man and one woman will find the key to prevent the human race's extinction. Short Story"Only that wasn't what it was at all. Yes it was a very interesting story about survival against a race of aliens from the galactic equator. Yes there was a man and woman. But no key to the prevention of the human race's extinction was found. I suspect that will come later when the author develops this into a full novel. This isn't a short story really either, it is an introduction, an excerpt if you will from an unfinished novel. I am becoming increasingly annoyed by book descriptions that don't advise this. I have no issue reading book excerpts and sample chapters, but when you are not given the full details and buy a book extract expecting it to be a proper short story with a proper ending, well I begin to get cheesed off to say the least. I just like plain honesty, and dislike attempts to decive me. In Australia at least such misrepresentation of a product is illegal, and will get you charged with fraud.All that aside this does make for an okay short read. The first few paragraphs opens the scene, the attack on a military convoy, the alien beasts, the military woman who knows a thing or two about foiling the alien senses. With the scene set, the characters of the story set up a challenge to reach a possible store of food and weapons as they battle the aliens. I can see this will make a good novel when it is expanded upon.For any other writers out there thinking of serving up a sample chapter or unfinished novel, please, please let us know before we download your work. It will save us disappointment and in my case I will review it as a sampler, instead of a short story that should have a proper ending. Because this one was misleading and didn't have such a proper ending I'm only going to give it a 3, good, but disappointing. I suspect that people who realise it is just a sample chapter will like it more now that they know this.