Review #426: Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”

----T.S. Eliot

Sylvain Neuvel, a Canadian author, pens his debut sci-fi thriller, Sleeping Giants that is the first book in his new series, Themis Files, that narrates the story in one of the most unique way ever possible in the world of telling stories, i.e., through interviews, transcripts, journal entries, conversations, newspaper articles, etc and the readers are bound to carve their way out through this challenging and intelligent story of a girl stumbling upon a giant robotic hand when she was little and later when she grew up, she helped her country's government to help find the other pieces of this giant alien robot, but what purpose does this alien robot serve, and who kept it scattered across this planet?

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Review #240: From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.”

---- Stephenie Meyer

Karen McQuestion, a best-selling American author, pens her new young adult novel, From a Distant Star that is a cute love story masked inside a story about an alien from a faraway planet in some different galaxy who unfortunately landed up in the backyard of a dying teenager due to an accident, but this alien is not someone who have a body or mind to speak for himself, if he needs to survive, he needs a human body ASAP.

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Review #207: The Great Pyramid of Cydonia (Aoleon The Martian Girl, #5) by Brent LeVasseur

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn't apply.”

----Toba Beta, an Indonesian author

Brent LeVasseur, an American science fiction author, pens his very fist children's science fiction series, Aoléon The Martian Girl, and the fifth and the final book in this series, The Great Pyramid of Cydonia, which follows the adventures of a regular middle-grade farm boy with a Martian girl and with some Martian robots and aliens, they try to stop the Martian invasion on Earth and try to save the Martian girl's parents who were abducted in the city of Cydonia.

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Review #205: Part4 Illegal Aliens- Aoléon The Martian Girl by Brent LeVasseur

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn't apply.”

----Toba Beta, an Indonesian author

Brent LeVasseur, an American science fiction author, pens his very fist children's science fiction series, Aoléon The Martian Girl, and the fourth book, in the series, Illegal Aliens- Aoléon The Martian Girl, which follows the adventures of a regular middle-grade farm boy with a Martian girl and some Martian robots and aliens to stop the Martian invasion on Earth that takes them to the new and extremely dangerous level of journey.

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Review #204: Part3 The Hollow Moon- Aoléon The Martian Girl by Brent LeVasseur

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn't apply.”


                                                          ----Toba Beta, an Indonesian author



Brent LeVasseur, an American science fiction author, pens his very fist children's science fiction series, Aoléon The Martian Girl, and the third book, in the series, The Hollow Moon- Aoléon The Martian Girl, follows the adventures of a regular middle-grade farm boy with a Martian girl to her planet, Mars where they fall victim to some of the greatest and thrilling adventures.

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Review #26: Stormling by John Hennessy

Stormling by John Hennessy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Stormling is the first book in the Mordana Chronicles, authored by John Hennessy, who is not only a talented and skilled author but also a dear friend. I got accustomed with his work after reading the remarkable and sinister series called the Dark Winter series. After reading Stormling, I swear that I will have to read whatever this author pens down, who has not only an wide imaginative mind but also has quite exquisite taste of drawing his characters which are equally unique, dark and glorious.

Many thanks to the author, John Hennessy, for giving me this opportunity to read and review his book.

My words fall short for appreciating his ingenuous style of narration and unfolding of the tale in Stormling. No I'm not going to compare with any other author, instead his books made me believe in so many tiny little details of the world, and how to bring out appreciation. His characters open a world which makes the impossible sound possible and make us believe the aura of John's make-believe world. This book is not only long but also demands a lot of attention. And with the burst of myriad of unusual characters, John has not only added the glitter with spunk to his tale but also made it incredibly engaging.

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