Review: Fun book for younger readers
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
It would be a fun read for 10 year old boys who enjoy a rip-roaring yarn about outer space goings on.  I did enjoy the authors imagination.  He shows promise, but the unsophisticated sentence structure and point by point how-to guide on how to save a planet, reads like a 'Boy's Own' Annual that came out in the sixties.An enjoyable read for anyone wanting an interesting storyline, but it would be unsatisfying for those wanting in-depth character studies of the main characters.  I also spotted fairly big inconsistencies between the preview and the main body of the book.  The sequence of events around the escape is rather murky and doesn't interweave at all well between the description at beginning of the book and that of the actual sequence of events, described later in the book.Some of the sayings were incorrect as well, though that could be a cultural thing.  The lack of much interest in families left behind, prior to being kidnapped, made for a shallowness to the story, which may be okay for children reading it, but adult readers wouldn't identify with that way of thinking.For a first effort, it isn't bad, but I'm not sure that I'll stick around to buy any sequels.