
Exo
Book One
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Narrated by:
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MacLeod Andrews
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By:
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Fonda Lee
The fight for the future begins. It's been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose their rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn't one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison, and Donovan's high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. That is until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan's abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience, determined to end alien control.
When Sapience realizes whose son Donovan is, they think they've found the ultimate bargaining chip. But the Prime Liaison doesn't negotiate with terrorists, not even for his own son. Left in the hands of terrorists who have more uses for him dead than alive, the fate of Earth rests on Donovan's survival. Because if Sapience kills him, it could spark another intergalactic war. And Earth didn't win the last one....
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Alien were not sure we love?❤
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Much of politics that was well explained and engaged you to understand why people did what they did, lot of cool action that made me chear or wince in symphaty. I mostly liked that the mc actually fell in love but Fonda Lee never took the fokus of the actual story to make it all about that like menny other books I have read.
Really hope there will be another one, want to know what happens to Earth ans the rebells.
Give me another one!
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Really good, not predictable
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Also, thank you to MacLeod Andrews for another great performance!
Wow - a pleasant surprise!
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I love it when a book surprises me. I was expecting a pulpy, alien occupation story with the standard coming of age MC whose unique gifts made him a cliche Mary Sue who single handedly save the planet. What I got was a whole lot more intergalactic politics and complex, understandable motivations on
all sides of a multi-sided game board. Human sympathizers and collaborators, alien partners and owners, all explored among a fascinating alien species and an inventive engineering of exo-celled humans.
“T.G.I.N.S. (Thank goodness I’m not squishy!)”
Yes, this was still YA, with minimal violence that kept to Hunger Games levels of gore. There were cliches, including a forbidden love interest and Donovan’s convenient connections to major events/people.
But, all in all, this managed to deliver some harder sci-fi topics and still keep the lighter YA vibe.
And, even though politics and terrorist themes aren’t normally my thing, I was captivated enough to immediately move on to book 2, Crossfire.
A YA story with surprising depth
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The characters are boring, unlikable and repeatedly make stupid decisions. This book also boasts one of the worst crimes in all of story writing, which is weak characters that are full of unjustified bravado and belligerence, who never suffer any consequences. Apparently a lot of writers think belligerence makes a character strong and respectable. It doesn't. It makes them stupid and unrealistic. On top of that, all of the "twists" were not only extremely predictable, but were very cliche.
The terrorist group who you are supposed to sympathize with are basically a slightly futuristic iteration of a certain gun toting bipartisan group that exists today, that is also xenophobic and obsessed with freedom at all costs. Mind you, gaining freedom in this story is going to cost humanity very dearly if it doesn't cause their destruction outright, as well as lose them access to vastly superior technology and leave them vulnerable to even worse enemies. That's not patriotic, that's idiotic. Finally, when one of the main characters started prattling on about God's will, I knew it was time to throw in the towel.
The only good thing about this book is the narrator. This is the second time I've encountered Macleod Andrews work. The first time was in Brandon Sanderson's The Reckoners series (which I also hated for all of it's ridiculous in your face morality and hypocritical characters) and he did a good job there as well.
Not For Me
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