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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
I'm kinda struggling with my rating. This book is one I would classify as a thriller. It's not Dark but the mood is heavy and bleak throughout the story (think doom and gloom ratcheting up to 1000%) and Chris Chambers was a perfect choice for narrating this. The thing is that my mood is always influenced by what I'm reading so I rarely choose doom and gloom for that reason.
About till the 87% mark or so the story had the equivalent of "winter is coming" going on, only with Faceless and not a clue (apart from what up till the end of the book, Cam is still hiding) about how to fight them. At around that mark the Faceless general, Kai-Ren appears (FINALLY!!!) and get the treaty going for which Cam was send back to announce that Kai-Ren wanted and snowballed the whole thing.
Heather K here expresses far more eloquently than I'd ever could everything that is Cam and Brady.
The thing is can I handle more and dive into the other 2 books of the series???
P.S.: I wonder if Kai-Ren kidnapped Cam because he knew/saw that he was gay AND quite wanton if I do say so myself.
About till the 87% mark or so the story had the equivalent of "winter is coming" going on, only with Faceless and not a clue (apart from what up till the end of the book, Cam is still hiding) about how to fight them. At around that mark the Faceless general, Kai-Ren appears (FINALLY!!!) and get the treaty going for which Cam was send back to announce that Kai-Ren wanted and snowballed the whole thing.
Heather K here expresses far more eloquently than I'd ever could everything that is Cam and Brady.
The thing is can I handle more and dive into the other 2 books of the series???
P.S.: I wonder if Kai-Ren kidnapped Cam because he knew/saw that he was gay AND quite wanton if I do say so myself.
The first, I don’t know, fifty pages are vaguely okay, and then it just turned into insanely weird Stockholm syndrome alien rape flashbacks. I kept hoping it would improve or possibly that I would quit wanting to punch the narrator in the face, but it did not and I did not. I kept thinking that a book with four stars had to have some redeeming qualities. Spoiler: it does not. So much horrifying sexual assault! Literally no plot! Terrible characters! Whatever the opposite of a recommendation is, that is what I give this book.
absolutely loved this! did not know where it was going to go, and keep me hooked with the fab writing all the way through! i want to read all of lisa henry's books now :)
This is a fantastic sci-fi romance. I was a bit leery of it, because I'd read that it is pretty dark, and yes, it is. This is not a cute and fluffy story. It's grim and bleak, and oh, so bloody good. Brady, the nineteen-year old recruit from whose POV the story is told, is a tangle of anger and desperation and insecurities and hopelessness, and he has every cause to be. For once, here's a teenager whose angst is reasonable. It's also a pretty raw depiction of classism and what it's like to have been born at the bottom, to have given up everything for those you love and then have it ripped away, to have been given nothing, and then be treated like dirt for it. Add to this being conscripted into a hopeless war with a frightening alien power at age sixteen ...
But then there's Cam. Cameron Rushton, who was abducted by those aliens four years ago and has just been returned, and by complete chance sucks Brady into his eerie life with all its ominous complexities. And for the first time in years, there is something good happening in Brady's life. Yeah, it's a kicker.
Despite this, you can't stop reading, because the writing is EXCELLENT. There's not much action, nor a convoluted plot, but Brady's voice is utterly believable and his telling of the story is utterly compelling. It's raw and dark, but also funny, also sweet, also heartbreaking. This is Good Stuff.
But then there's Cam. Cameron Rushton, who was abducted by those aliens four years ago and has just been returned, and by complete chance sucks Brady into his eerie life with all its ominous complexities. And for the first time in years, there is something good happening in Brady's life. Yeah, it's a kicker.
Despite this, you can't stop reading, because the writing is EXCELLENT. There's not much action, nor a convoluted plot, but Brady's voice is utterly believable and his telling of the story is utterly compelling. It's raw and dark, but also funny, also sweet, also heartbreaking. This is Good Stuff.
I really enjoyed the mind melding and Cam and Brady together. But I really did not enjoy the Kai-Ren stuff and it made me uncomfortable. I felt sort of betrayed by whatever was going on between him and Cam. It just seemed so wrong. And the short time we spent on his ship was the worst. I am really not looking forward to him being back for the sequel.
This book gave me all kinds of feelings. Mostly positive. There were some icky moments.
After the seconds chapter I thought "please don't give me Cam's pov". I didn't want to read about the horrors he went through. And no I didn't get Cam's pov, but still got to read about his experiences in a roundabout way. Eeek! So, yeah thanks for that. ;D
There was one thing I didn't really think was accurate. They started interrogating Cam only after a few days, maybe a week. An alien invasion is a serious matter, so I thought they would start questioning him immediately.
Alas, it's a well-crafted story and I enjoyed it!
After the seconds chapter I thought "please don't give me Cam's pov". I didn't want to read about the horrors he went through. And no I didn't get Cam's pov, but still got to read about his experiences in a roundabout way. Eeek! So, yeah thanks for that. ;D
There was one thing I didn't really think was accurate. They started interrogating Cam only after a few days, maybe a week. An alien invasion is a serious matter, so I thought they would start questioning him immediately.
Alas, it's a well-crafted story and I enjoyed it!