Review: Wake up and smell the ashes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
This second book in the series is much better than the first one. Very little emphasis is given to the age of the young characters. There is a lot of explaining of things, too, like journeying through time and using black holes for propulsion. I also like the increased emphasis on the Navajo and the relationship of mythology to reality.That aliens might be hostile is something Stephen Hawking has already talked about. That their technology would be way beyond ours is a given. The use of mass drivers to hurl rocks at a planet has already been shown to great effect in the television series Babylon 5 when the Centauri used such devices to attack the Narn homeworld. They would have the same effect on the Earth as covered in this book.Keeping the truth of a very bad situation from the people, as done in this book, is also something that has been done in reality, and done frequently.The book thus mixes what could be, logically, we things that have happened, which strengthens the novel. I am interested to see how the author works out the problem of dealing with at least two hostile alien races and the humans who wold use the aliens for their own purposes.