Friday, January 20, 2017

Dark Energy by Robison Wells

Warning: This review may contain MILD spoilers for the novel Dark Matter.

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A spaceship has crashed in the Midwest.  It fell first on Iowa, then skidded tow hundred and fifty miles north into Minnesota.  Thousands of human lives were ended.  Now the world is waiting for whatever is in the ship to come out.

This is why Alice had to move from Miami, Florida.  Her dad is the director of special projects for NASA.  He has to go to the site of the crash and Alice has to go to The Minnetonka School for the Gifted and Talented.

While she's trying to decide whether she falls into the Gifted or Talented portion of the school, the crash landed visitors finally make an appearance, and suddenly everything changes.

They call themselves the Guides, and they look very Human.

While the leader of the thousands housed inside the giant spaceship are talking with Government leaders, two of the younger aliens also end up at the Minnetonka School for the Gifted and Talented.

One of them becomes first roommates, then friends, with the young alien woman.

Then things get even stranger....

This novel had a couple of twists I didn't expect, and a couple of plot points that you could see coming from a mile away.  And some things that made you roll your eyes because they were a little TOO good to be true, even in a fictional novel.

I would recommend this one to anyone who enjoys YA Earthbound Sci-Fi.

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Dark Energy is available on Amazon in Kindle, Hardback and Paperback.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

sounds like a very interesting read.