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Aiden
Earth turned against its people, making it impossible to breathe the air. Forcing people to live in modified skyscrapers called Towers.
Shortly after moving into the Tower random people started to disappear for no reason. This has been going on for over three hundred years. Now a fact of life. Most accept this, but not Aiden. It's happened one to many times to him. He embarks on a gut-wrenching adventure to uncover the truth behind the Vanishings.
Aiden is full of action, suspense, and mystery. It challenges the reader to not take things for what they appear to be.
Shortly after moving into the Tower random people started to disappear for no reason. This has been going on for over three hundred years. Now a fact of life. Most accept this, but not Aiden. It's happened one to many times to him. He embarks on a gut-wrenching adventure to uncover the truth behind the Vanishings.
Aiden is full of action, suspense, and mystery. It challenges the reader to not take things for what they appear to be.
281 pages, Paperback
First published July 22, 2014
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Nathan Howe
71 books4 followersNathan Howe was born in Michigan. He has lived most of his life in Metro Detroit, he currently lives in the area. The only time he spent out of the area was when he was serving in the Army. Nathan served four years in the active Army, and in the Michigan National Guard. He was an intelligence analyst (not as exciting as you’d think); he followed that by becoming a mechanic in the Guard. He attended Macomb Community College and Wayne State University earning a degree in Economics. He set out to start his career after graduating several years ago. He is still looking. Nathan enjoys reading. He likes everything from science fiction and fantasy, to thrillers, young adult, etc. He also likes to watch movies, and TV. He’s a big super hero fan. He loves music, both listening and learning to play. Nothing brings him greater joy than writing.
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August 28, 2014
"The world is not what it seems to be."
That is the basic premise of Aiden, a new science-fiction, dystopian story in the same line as the Legend and Divergent series, but the story is unique to itself. The human race is forced to live indoors due to a chemical war that broke out that left the air toxic to breathe. This story takes place in post-apocalyptic Detroit, where society is living in, what we know as, the Renaissance Center, but it's referred to as The Towers. Aiden has reached the age that he has to complete his Proving, to determine what he will study, and what line of work he will be in. If he is unsuccessful during his Proving, he will be sent outdoors and likely meet a violent death. During Aiden's Proving, his sister vanishes, and the story continues as Aiden comes to terms with the reality of his society and where his sister vanished to. The story concludes with a serious plot-twist that made me excited for the subsequent books in the series.
I give this book 4.5 stars--it is incredibly creative and imaginative. I especially enjoyed the setting in Detroit. Aiden is often looking into the skyline of the city, and reminiscing on what the city looked like before the war broke out. This is a common thought of those of us living in metro-Detroit today--reminiscing on what the city would have been like in it's heyday before the riots in the 1960's. The incorporation of science and military themes was also very interesting. There was even a love story, but it was certainly not the main point of the book.
All in all, I would definitely recommend this book to all dystopian and science-fiction fans!
That is the basic premise of Aiden, a new science-fiction, dystopian story in the same line as the Legend and Divergent series, but the story is unique to itself. The human race is forced to live indoors due to a chemical war that broke out that left the air toxic to breathe. This story takes place in post-apocalyptic Detroit, where society is living in, what we know as, the Renaissance Center, but it's referred to as The Towers. Aiden has reached the age that he has to complete his Proving, to determine what he will study, and what line of work he will be in. If he is unsuccessful during his Proving, he will be sent outdoors and likely meet a violent death. During Aiden's Proving, his sister vanishes, and the story continues as Aiden comes to terms with the reality of his society and where his sister vanished to. The story concludes with a serious plot-twist that made me excited for the subsequent books in the series.
I give this book 4.5 stars--it is incredibly creative and imaginative. I especially enjoyed the setting in Detroit. Aiden is often looking into the skyline of the city, and reminiscing on what the city looked like before the war broke out. This is a common thought of those of us living in metro-Detroit today--reminiscing on what the city would have been like in it's heyday before the riots in the 1960's. The incorporation of science and military themes was also very interesting. There was even a love story, but it was certainly not the main point of the book.
All in all, I would definitely recommend this book to all dystopian and science-fiction fans!
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