Review: Screaming Furgs....Your new best friend could be an ALIEN!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2013
Excellent character driven stories like "Zero Recall" are not quick reads, not something to be finished in a few short hours. There is so much depth within this story it made me pause from time to time and just say damn, or to be more precise "NINETY HELLS".Our hero from Book 1 is no longer the boy aka Zero.  He is Commander Joe Dobbs of the Congressional Army, a legend, a CONGIE, now forcefully retired by fellow ground-crew member, Maggie. Retirement finds him some fifty-five turns later back on Earth in search of his elusive brother, Sam. But as those turns brought a transformation in Joe, he finds Earth has changed too. They don't want him back, people of HIS OWN PLANET despise him, in their eyes he is now the alien.Retirement will be short; Zero is a pawn in a universal game of chess. And this time, his ground team won't be human.  Instead, it's become a much more colorful team of what used to be the bad guys; Huouyt, Jreet, Baga, Ooreiki and Grekkon. Their mission is more than what it seems, as this unique team strives not only to complete their assignment, but not to kill each other in the process. These Battle mates are characterization at its best; they are DEEP, developing in unexpected ways as is the nature of Miss King.What I loved and enjoyed most about this tale is how it evolved; strength, determination, honor and stubborn attitudes, their destiny's blending. A complex growth of true FRIENDSHIP takes root, creating bonds none of them would ever have considered from a life form different from their own.If you think that you can predetermine where this adventure will take you, guess again. This one had me screaming like a Takki, raging like a Congie, as it changes more times than a Huouyt has patterns.Yes, those are "Legend of Zero" terms but as this epic unfolded, I became transformed, absorbed by the interactive writing. Their world became mine, I found I thought of them not as aliens anymore but just different looking kind of people/sort of  :P  Within this Sci-fi adventure is hidden a lesson, one of life we all can learn from, to overall not judge an alien or a book by its cover, to use that pun.The ability to really get into her characters' minds is what makes this book really tick. Like a parasite, Miss Kings cast of unique characters bore into my brain, developing, exploring, layers upon layer as THEIR story unfolds.I can't wait for the adventure to continue.