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Aeon's Legacy #1

Hurricane Moon

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In the late 21st Century, with Earth wracked by climate change and political upheaval, an ambitious private foundation launches a starship to find a new world. Aboard Aeon are Catharin Gault, an idealistic astronaut-physician, and scientist-passenger Joseph Devreze, a molecular biologist as brilliant as he is irresponsible. He has his own hidden motives for fleeing old Earth.
Things begin to go amiss while everyone is still in the cold suspended animation called cryostasis, on the long journey through interstellar space.
Programmed to search for a planet with a large moon—the only way to guarantee stable seasons, tides and an Earthlike ecosystem after terraforming—the starship finds a destination better than Catharin ever dared hope for: two Earth-sized planets locked in orbit around each other. Planet Green has abundant plant life and a puzzling lack of large animals. Planet Blue is an oceanic world covered with hurricanes. The green planet with its bright blue moon seems like a perfect stage for the drama of civilization to begin anew and turn out better this time. But the journey took far longer than anyone anticipated, and a millennium of cryostasis exacted a heavy price: insidious molecular damage.
Now Catharin must rely on the untrustworthy maverick Joseph Devreze to help her save humankind on Planet Green. Their mutual attraction ratchets up even as their conflict escalates. Together Catharin and Joe must decide how they can face, and embrace, a future at odds with Aeon’s planned mission and their own expectations. Meanwhile the mystery of the Hurricane Moon looms over them all. And so the season of crisis begins.

399 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

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Alexis Glynn Latner

46 books23 followers
Alexis Glynn Latner writes romantic speculative fiction that touches readers’ hearts as well as their minds. Her science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in many print and online magazines and anthologies, including the USA Today best-selling Pets in Space®. Her science fiction novel Hurricane Moon was published by Pyr in 2007 and again by Avendis Press in 2014 with three sequels in the Aeon's Legacy series. A new romantic science fiction series called Starways began with Witherspin. The fourth novel in that series will be Revenant in 2025. 
She also has three collections of previously published stories: Ascendance (science fiction), Tomorrow's Mascots (romantic science fiction), and Sixth Sense of Wonder in late 2025 (science fantasy.)

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Profile Image for Mei.
1,897 reviews475 followers
April 1, 2016
I received this book from Netgalley for my honest review.

It's been some times that I've read SF. And I must say that I've missed it! :)

The romance here is almost non-existent since the book is focused not so much on pure science (fiction), but on the psychological impact of life on a totally different planet, with different loight/dark hours, different moon, different geography, different plants, etc.

And it was very fascinating for me, even if the writing style could be better. Still the idea is very interesting and it took me very little time to finish the book.

I love tales about space exploration and getting on a completly alien planet!

The planet here is fascinating: I was expecting something very terrible is going to happen, but really nothing does. The flora and almost inexistent animal life is completely harmless to humans! The planet is ready to be colonized and there's nothing threatening there, but everybody is on thier toes and it does have a heavy psycological influx.

While reading I was thinking how very true what they're feeling was.

That is the biggest plus here!

Now I'm curious to read the next and see how things evolved there! :)
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1,098 reviews45 followers
October 7, 2015
Je ne peux pas écrire que j'ai aimé Pourtant, j'adore les histoires de mondes nouveaux, d'explorations sf etc
Ce qui m'a certainement ennuyé ici c'est, d'une part, l'aspect " je ne vexe personne" en prônant une tolérance exagérée et peu crédible à mon sens et, d'autre part, les chapitres sur la religion et les ébats sexuels
Je n'ai véritablement "accroché" avec aucun des personnages principaux (ni Joe le spécialiste en génétique stéréotypé, ni Christina la médecin chef et son côté utopiste moralisateur)
Le côté scientifique (espace et biologie) est plutôt bien écrit et parait plausible(réel ou non) mais n'explique pas tout, loin de là et c'est dommage
Le point positif est l'importance accordée par l'auteur aux odeurs en lien avec la mémoire et les mécanismes de la pensée induite chez l'homme placé dans un milieu entièrement inconnu C'est assez rare pour être souligner
Enfin, il y a ces deux planètes Blue et Green, leurs mystères à découvrir C'est le fil conducteur qui m'a tenu jusqu'à la fin du livre.
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619 reviews25 followers
March 26, 2016
ARC/Sci-fi: I want to thank Net Galley for letting me read this book because it was wonderful. Even though it I'd "book one", it does have an ending, not a cliffhanger. Sorry, no spoilers here.

I so enjoyed the thought process the author put me through. The characters were whole and they grew throughout the book. The crew finds themselves on a new planet with a water twin next door. The faux-science and theories were great and made me not only think "what would I do," but I wanted to hang out with Cat and Joe.

Yes, there was some problems with plotlines, gravity, and continuity, but all was forgiven. I wanted pictures of what everyone in the book was privy to seeing. I just wanted Wing to take a selfie with Blue in the background.

This book is an easy read, but it did take me a while to read as I had to get some needlework done for a baby shower. The last third of the book flew by. I'm going to have to put book two on my wishlist.

I do recommend this book for the sci-fi fan. Lots of great ideas and characters.
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75 reviews14 followers
September 10, 2010
First third/half was engrossing, but petered off the closer it got to the end. The hardsci aspect was a nice change from what I have been reading lately, but I had hopped the book would carry through till the end.
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192 reviews17 followers
July 28, 2008
Some interesting ideas, but generally too painful to read. It felt forced and exaggerated in the plot, characters, and setting.
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June 16, 2025
I think this would have been better if I had more science-y or more sci-fi knowledge. At points, they were talking about different processes or parts of the ship and I had no idea what they were talking about, but that was probably just me.
It was really frustrating that 'Joe' got introduced as one character, but then immediately changed their name. I get why it made sense within the story, but it was confusing reading it, when we first learned about that character with a different name.
I feel like it kind of lost the point of the plot, once they'd landed on the planet. I wasn't really sure where it was heading and there wasn't really a main plot goal in line, or at least it didn't seem like there was one.
1,092 reviews
June 23, 2019
With Earth going to hell in a hand-basket a space vessel with several thousand people in stasis is launched toward a distant star system hoping to save at least some segment of humanity. When the first few are brought out of stasis at the targeted system they ascertain it is not viable and decide to go back into stasis after programming the vessel to find another star system. One is is more likely to support life. Relationship issues of the human variety come to the fore. The book ends but enough issues are raised for the next book in the series.
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1,369 reviews26 followers
April 9, 2016
' Moon" eBook was published in 2014 and was written by Alexis Latner (http://www.alexisglynnlatner.com). Ms. Latner has published 4 novels.

I received a galley of this novel for review through https://www.netgalley.com. I categorize this novel as ‘PG’ because It contains some Mature Situations. This Science Fiction novel is set in the far future. A colony ship is launched from Earth on a long term mission to reach a suitable planet and start a human colony.

The primary character is Catharin Gault. She is the mission doctor and one of the leadership core. At the last minute before the mission leaves Earth, she makes the decision to allow brilliant biologist Joseph "Joe" Devreze to join the expedition. She is somewhat troubled by him, but at the same time attracted to him.

Originally planned for just a few hundred years, the destination turns out to be unsuitable and they must continue on. They end up spending more than a thousand years traveling before a suitable planet is found. While the passengers have been in suspended animation for all of this time, the unexpected duration of the flight has had an impact on their health.

The final destination is an unusual binary planet pair. One world is green and lush, but without any significant animal life. The other is an ocean world with little land mass and constant raging hurricanes. They settle on the green world, but the equally large blue planet fills the night sky with its presence.

An outpost is established on the green world and passengers begin to be awakened to take part in the colonization efforts. As expected, there are many trials the small outpost goes through. Before long Catharin finds herself falling in love with Joe.

I spent just under 10 hours with this 401 page novel. I had high hopes for it in the beginning, but is turned into more of a romance than I liked. It was well written and I liked the character of Catharine, but it spent too much time on the emotional relationships for my taste. I give this novel a 3.7 (rounded up to a 4) out of 5.

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105 reviews7 followers
August 15, 2016
Hurricane Moon is a futuristic sci-fi novel set primarily on an alien world. The Earth is failing and running out of options. Volunteers are sent on a mission into deep space to find a viable planet to colonize. The people on board the ship are placed in cryogenic stasis. As they revive to an alien world fitting the basic parameters ideal for terraforming, everything seems to go wrong. First, it had taken them about 1000 years just to find a viable planet. Secondly, they were never meant to be in stasis for so long and there was significant unforeseen damage to their DNA. Third, all radio signals from Earth had abruptly stopped less than a century into their voyage according to the computers, so it appears they are truly on their own. Add into the mix the adverse effect the strange blue oceanic moon is having on them and problems abound. Can the colonists live long enough to adapt to this new world or will their bodies give out before their scientists can develop a cure?

I would first like to state that I received this from the author for an honest review. That being said, I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me a little of a short story I read in grade school that I adored - The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh - but with it's own unique set of problems to overcome. I was impressed by Ms. Latner's attention to detail. She has successfully woven an intricate tale of survival in a vivid world very different from our own and even added in a little romance to sweeten the deal. I am truly looking forward to the next installment of this epic space adventure.
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Author 13 books95 followers
November 5, 2010
This may not be the most unique ideas, that in the future Earth falls to ruin and we send our best out in the universe to find a new Earth, but this is definitely the best-executed idea that I’ve read in a while. Much of the story rotates around the biology and evolution of people and their environment; much speculation is made about why there is a Planet Blue and a Planet Green, and we never really know if it’s the truth, only that this is what the characters have decided must have happened. I loved the science behind it all, mainly because I used to be obsessed with the moon (I kind of still am) and how it affects us daily. The characters react as you expect people to react to something so foreign as two Earth-sized planets on spin-lock around each other.

Latner does a wonderful job of making you feel scientific by the end of the book. She explains without making you feel stupid, and so you know what these highly-scientific characters are doing without getting into unnecessary details. Her use of tension is subtle, but effective: I jumped twice and even yelped once when I was reading and a friend called out to me as he walked past. That hardly ever happens to me (I read so much that I’m almost jaded sometimes). A unique book with a good execution, and even with some romance, this book was entertaining and even informative.

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1,593 reviews23 followers
October 19, 2018
Just before leaving Earth forever, the starship Aeon has a request to take on another passenger. Chief Medical Officer Catharin Gault must approve the addition of Joseph Devreze to the crew. It’s not an easy call. She finds him obnoxious and full of himself, but more than that she’s appalled by his ethics, or rather his lack of them. Here’s a brilliant molecular biologist, a world renowned expert on DNA, with a Nobel Prize who’s made a fortune creating sea dogs, dogs with flippers and gills so they can breathe underwater. As he puts it, “Novel organisms are very profitable. And people pay outrageous sums for cosmetic genetic alterations, such as calico hair.”

Much later Gault is relieved that she approved him for the mission, because the Aeon has been in space centuries beyond the safe limit for its crew to remain in stasis. Their DNA has begun to decay, and the colonists that have finally made it to the new world of Green are in danger of being both the first and the last generation of colonists.

Latner’s tale of interstellar exploration and colonization is fascinating, believable, and thought provoking. The science is hard and the romance appropriately stimulating.
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314 reviews26 followers
September 27, 2007
I waiver between giving this book 3 or 4 stars. Too bad they don't let you give 1/2 stars here.

A very interesting plotline and world creation. Characters seemed a bit two-dimensional and transitions were pretty abrupt. Almost made me feel like the writer had Asperger's. The author did an excellent job of tying up all the loose ends and giving the book a satisfying conclusion.

Despite it's flaws it was a very interesting read and I would gladly read the author's next book.
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711 reviews20 followers
December 24, 2016
It's refreshing to read an sf book which takes the science seriously. I've read a lot of sf books with less science than Hurricane Moon but few which make better use of science.

That said, I also really enjoyed the fully-realized characters and how they met the challenges that come with traveling to the stars to make a new life on a new world.

Even better, Hurricane Moon is the first book of a trilogy. Now I get to read book two!

7 reviews2 followers
April 18, 2012
The cheesy cover almost made me give it a pass. Glad I didn't!
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