Twilight War: A FiveFold Universe Sci-Fi Survival Adventure

by D.J. Bodden, D. Ahren Bell

They survived the void, but the jungle will swallow them wholeExiled from their homeworld, Janus and the rest of Team Invarian have spent a year learning the laws of the jungle. Between the exotic fauna, clan politics, and an ecosystem that seems designed to eat him, Janus has his hands full, but at least he's escaped the Cult of the Survivor--that is until Architect Nikandros shows up on his doorstep with an old friend and an ultimatum.

Forced to run in a new planet's version of the Trials, Janus and Team Invarian will have to overcome the environment, the other teams, and the Cult's factional infighting. It's a whole new race with team-on-team battles, bio-engineered monsters, inexplicable anomalies, and the high-tech ruins from the planet's lost past. As opposition mounts and the locals go to war, Janus will have to make hard choices.

He may have to sacrifice the people of Krandermore so his homeworld can survive.

Twilight War is the second book in the Janus Invarian series. Written by D.J. Bodden and D. Ahren Bell, Twilight War is a hard-sci-fi survival adventure with undertones of Aliens vs. Predators. Buy it now to continue the journey from the dust of Irkalla to the deadly rainforest of Krandermore.

498 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2024

About the author

D.J. Bodden is a tech-startup COO who writes books because words are magic. He's an avid reader of science-fiction and fantasy, a gamer, a former pilot and coffee trader who's been to every continent but Antarctica. He's been woken up by gunfire, jumped out of helicopters, and climbed medium-sized hills in scorching weather; He likes to make people laugh for the wrong reasons; He tries to sell people grimoires disguised as fiction; He is scared of spiders, and only recently learned to ride a bike.

D.J. lives in Switzerland with his wife and thinks it's important that they should someday be adopted by a fox.

Reviews

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Janus Invarian and his team have been exiled from Irkalla and are currently trying to make a life for themselves in Krandermore, a tidally locked land with a jungle called the twilight valley. They live in Cofan Town in survivor's refuge where coldsiders and sunsiders live on either side of the valley. Their life is suddenly turned on it's head when Architect Nikandros turns up at their local bar with an old friend in tow and forces them to take part once again in this years trials. Nikandros was using their families still in Irkalla as leverage so they could not refuse. Ryler the acolyte, and once best friend of Janus, who'd been spying on them all along for the Cult of the Survivor was to join the team. Can Janus, Lira and Mick trust Ryler with their lives even now that they could feel he was still withholding important information from them? They discovered that the cult was using them all in an experiment where Irkalla had been the control, and the cult could manipulate the parameters whichever way they liked. All three missed not only their families but their home planet, however though exile is a dream of a glorious return, it is also a vision of a revolution and Janus was intent on upsetting the cult's apple cart, especially since they could never return. This series is amazing, and this 2nd book is full of thrills, I love the fiery dragon who joined the group and I love the incitement as I am a real sucker for a rebellion and hate religious fanatics with a vengeance. Bring on book 3!

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Janus Invarian and crew are back at it with a new set of trials.
If you liked the first one, this one definitely takes things up a notch.
When I first started reading book 1, I thought it was just going to an action packed race across a desolate planet. I never expected a deeper story and seeds of rebellion.
It started off a bit slow. We had to know where the characters were now. Once it got going, it didn’t let up.
I am very much looking forward to seeing how everything winds up in the next book.