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The Object: Book One
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"We don't know where it came from. We don't know what it is. We don't know what it plans to do."
Walking home from school always felt dangerous to Lillia. Creepy people watching you from their porch steps. The sudden shift of an upstairs window curtain. Spurts of conversation with no visible source. It's no surprise when she finds herself being followed by a drunk.
The surprise comes when the sky suddenly goes dark and she looks up to find a perfectly round and enormous object settling in over top the city. The object looks more like a moon than a spaceship, but it certainly doesn't look friendly.
Now Lillia must escape her stalker in the dark and get home as fast as she can. Her foster siblings are waiting for her, alone, and the wind already carries the sound of chaos erupting in the streets.
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"We don't know where it came from. We don't know what it is. We don't know what it plans to do."
Walking home from school always felt dangerous to Lillia. Creepy people watching you from their porch steps. The sudden shift of an upstairs window curtain. Spurts of conversation with no visible source. It's no surprise when she finds herself being followed by a drunk.
The surprise comes when the sky suddenly goes dark and she looks up to find a perfectly round and enormous object settling in over top the city. The object looks more like a moon than a spaceship, but it certainly doesn't look friendly.
Now Lillia must escape her stalker in the dark and get home as fast as she can. Her foster siblings are waiting for her, alone, and the wind already carries the sound of chaos erupting in the streets.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2012
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May 17, 2019
The Object: Book One (Object Series) by Winston Emerson
I really enjoyed this novel although I'm not that attached the the horror mayhem type of stories like this. This draws some similarities to H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, which again is a good novel just not my favorite. This novel takes place in Louisville instead of England and also has some similarities to the novel series The Beginning of the End by Michael Edward.
Winston Emerson creates some strong and believable characters and the writing is similar to that high literary style where the characters are drawn out well with all the flaws and foibles attached. We could have used a better balance of characters to offset the horror that was soon to ensue. There are several characters that stand out as potential for the reader to sympathize with, but a majority are pretty flawed and broken and though there might be opportunities to draw sympathy most of those characters become repulsive. There are a few of the gritty that redeem themselves, but in this type of fiction many of these characters die just as or just before you get to really know them.
There's a sense of plot somewhere in the background but because this has been published in the manner that it has been written within a blog-sphere the plot is mostly hanging rather loosely and this would be best read in its entirety, which at the moment is going to be difficult because not much more has been written and published yet.
I would give this five stars, but there are road-bumps that I couldn't get past. There are two characters that I would chose as the outstanding protagonists and they would be Lillia and Hayden. But those two characters take a dramatic turn in their life that may or may not have changed them entirely into unknown and unknowable characters. Because things are left pretty much hanging as in not explained and these are the two characters a reader might hang onto it becomes a sticky point among several sticky points.
The next sticky point is the mystery about the object. From front to back the reader doesn't get much of an advance in understanding to the tune that it's still not certain whether it has good or bad or indifference in its intent.
The next sticky point is the invasion of the body snatchers nature that the story is taking and the fact that it has the appearance that there is a contest or animosity between the snatched and it's difficult to tell if this is a side effect to the personality of the abducted body or if there are two different types of aliens or if in fact it's some sort of game or field exercise.
Once again as with this type of novel; the many well drawn characters are slowly being killed off as they meet together for some unknown purpose. It would almost seem at this point that most of the deaths are not directly perpetrated by the aliens unless we count in the panic and fear much the same as was caused by the Orson Wells radio broadcast. (Again many similarities here.)
This is a good story for the gritty characterizations and the portrayal of people caught in specific self destructive social structures within the big city. It has a good number of shock factors built into the narrative.
I think it would be best served whole though rather than piecemeal with the cliffhanger. Perhaps as the series plays out all of the mysteries that are brought before the reader will be answered eventually.
Of course the way that it is played out here might well be correct for the Genre it is trying to target.
J.L. Dobias
I really enjoyed this novel although I'm not that attached the the horror mayhem type of stories like this. This draws some similarities to H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, which again is a good novel just not my favorite. This novel takes place in Louisville instead of England and also has some similarities to the novel series The Beginning of the End by Michael Edward.
Winston Emerson creates some strong and believable characters and the writing is similar to that high literary style where the characters are drawn out well with all the flaws and foibles attached. We could have used a better balance of characters to offset the horror that was soon to ensue. There are several characters that stand out as potential for the reader to sympathize with, but a majority are pretty flawed and broken and though there might be opportunities to draw sympathy most of those characters become repulsive. There are a few of the gritty that redeem themselves, but in this type of fiction many of these characters die just as or just before you get to really know them.
There's a sense of plot somewhere in the background but because this has been published in the manner that it has been written within a blog-sphere the plot is mostly hanging rather loosely and this would be best read in its entirety, which at the moment is going to be difficult because not much more has been written and published yet.
I would give this five stars, but there are road-bumps that I couldn't get past. There are two characters that I would chose as the outstanding protagonists and they would be Lillia and Hayden. But those two characters take a dramatic turn in their life that may or may not have changed them entirely into unknown and unknowable characters. Because things are left pretty much hanging as in not explained and these are the two characters a reader might hang onto it becomes a sticky point among several sticky points.
The next sticky point is the mystery about the object. From front to back the reader doesn't get much of an advance in understanding to the tune that it's still not certain whether it has good or bad or indifference in its intent.
The next sticky point is the invasion of the body snatchers nature that the story is taking and the fact that it has the appearance that there is a contest or animosity between the snatched and it's difficult to tell if this is a side effect to the personality of the abducted body or if there are two different types of aliens or if in fact it's some sort of game or field exercise.
Once again as with this type of novel; the many well drawn characters are slowly being killed off as they meet together for some unknown purpose. It would almost seem at this point that most of the deaths are not directly perpetrated by the aliens unless we count in the panic and fear much the same as was caused by the Orson Wells radio broadcast. (Again many similarities here.)
This is a good story for the gritty characterizations and the portrayal of people caught in specific self destructive social structures within the big city. It has a good number of shock factors built into the narrative.
I think it would be best served whole though rather than piecemeal with the cliffhanger. Perhaps as the series plays out all of the mysteries that are brought before the reader will be answered eventually.
Of course the way that it is played out here might well be correct for the Genre it is trying to target.
J.L. Dobias
November 24, 2015
"The Object: Book One" -- I shoulda known better: it says "Book One" plainly in the title, but I foolishly thought there'd still be some kind of wrap-up before it ended and the next one started. The Object is an enormous spaceship-looking thing that suddenly parks itself over Louisville. (Louisville?!?)
Nearly all of the horror in this book is the man's-inhumanity-to-man type. There are a few characters (OK, three) that we do want to know and protect, but most are either inherently bad (or even just plain evil), or stupid, or both. And there are a LOT of characters, and shifting narrative viewpoints.
At the end of the book, we still don't know if the Object is necessarily evil. Or, for that matter, why it picked Louisville.
Still, the writing is not bad, and the plot is somewhat creative, so ... 3 stars.
Nearly all of the horror in this book is the man's-inhumanity-to-man type. There are a few characters (OK, three) that we do want to know and protect, but most are either inherently bad (or even just plain evil), or stupid, or both. And there are a LOT of characters, and shifting narrative viewpoints.
At the end of the book, we still don't know if the Object is necessarily evil. Or, for that matter, why it picked Louisville.
Still, the writing is not bad, and the plot is somewhat creative, so ... 3 stars.
August 22, 2013
Set firmly in a Louisville that is so rich with gritty texture and detail that it almost threatens as an antagonist itself, author Winston Emerson assembles a colorful cast of eclectic characters, each one struggling in their own way against the grind of day to day life. But, things can get worse. Oh how things are most definitely going to get a lot worse...when a great, mysterious sphere--The Object--appears without warning in the afternoon sky.
This book is a finger blister-inducing page turner. Emerson has a natural story-teller's voice that delivers one heck of a tale with no holds barred punches. If you're a fan of Stephen King, then The Object needs to be in your hands today!
This book is a finger blister-inducing page turner. Emerson has a natural story-teller's voice that delivers one heck of a tale with no holds barred punches. If you're a fan of Stephen King, then The Object needs to be in your hands today!
January 18, 2015
What an intricate tale woven here for us. Are they aliens? Are they peaceful? Will we all die? In a Stephen King-esqe world, the author intertwines the story of several people, pulling them together at the end. But, as with any good serial, the end is leaving us screaming NO!!! Where's the rest?! I'm definitely hooked and a new fan of The Object!
Now, why, if i loved it so much, is it only 4 stars? Some points left me slightly confused, or didn't make sense. But there are literally one/two. This is absolutely a great story.
Now, why, if i loved it so much, is it only 4 stars? Some points left me slightly confused, or didn't make sense. But there are literally one/two. This is absolutely a great story.
February 12, 2017
Well, I've finished as much as possible. I wish there were more, but I'm unable to find any continuation of this story. It is amazing! Fantastic, brilliant, edgy sci-fi with great characters that I really grew to care about, and a fascinating alien 'first contact' kind of thing going on. I really, really wish there were more.
October 31, 2014
Wow! This book baffled me for at least the first half. I didn't know what was happening but the author has written it to the extent that you can't put it down, you need to know! Looking forward to book 2
December 29, 2013
Interesting, but I'm not happy this book is part of a series. Aliens? OK. spaceships and government? OK. Panic and murder, death and destruction? OK. Series?
Bummer.
Bummer.
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