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Drachanism
Twenty hours after twelve alien spacecraft appeared over Earth; Russia launched a nuclear missile at the closest ship. The missile strike did not go to plan. Not only did the ship destroy the missile within seconds of launch; all twelve ships responded with very precise strikes against over ninety percent of land-based missile silos and mobile launch platforms, completely destroying the vast majority of Earth's nuclear weapon capability.
Twenty-four hours after twelve alien spacecraft appeared over Earth; the entire combined combat capability of every country on Earth was destroyed or disabled without a single human casualty. Completely overmatched, the world's governments joined together and entered negotiations with the advanced visitors. The result of negotiation were called the Earth Accords.
Twenty years later the Earth Accords have resulted in all of humanity becoming a unified work force designed to trade natural resources for advanced technology. To enforce peace (or maybe just obedience) a very small group of humans have been equipped with extremely advanced weapon systems and work as the world's only military unit.
These humans make up the Earth Defense Force.
Not everyone is happy with the situation, and while Earth speaks in public with one governmental voice; intrigue, plots, and conspiracies blur the lines between the peace of the world and the progress of humanity.
Will the Defense Force maintain peace for all humans or work towards a greater prosperity for some of humanity?
Or something else entirely?
Twenty-four hours after twelve alien spacecraft appeared over Earth; the entire combined combat capability of every country on Earth was destroyed or disabled without a single human casualty. Completely overmatched, the world's governments joined together and entered negotiations with the advanced visitors. The result of negotiation were called the Earth Accords.
Twenty years later the Earth Accords have resulted in all of humanity becoming a unified work force designed to trade natural resources for advanced technology. To enforce peace (or maybe just obedience) a very small group of humans have been equipped with extremely advanced weapon systems and work as the world's only military unit.
These humans make up the Earth Defense Force.
Not everyone is happy with the situation, and while Earth speaks in public with one governmental voice; intrigue, plots, and conspiracies blur the lines between the peace of the world and the progress of humanity.
Will the Defense Force maintain peace for all humans or work towards a greater prosperity for some of humanity?
Or something else entirely?
321 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 25, 2025
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May 25, 2026
First few chapters laid out a solid idea but my attention was quickly derailed by grammatical errors and punctuation mistakes throughout. There are quite a few sentences with end quotes but no beginning quotes so you’re not sure if someone was talking or not. It’s also extremely jarring and confusing to experience the author constantly switching back and forth between past and present tense.
Some additional critiques: Lots of characters just don’t get developed at all. TJ, Dan, Roger, and Aaron are all mentioned and should presumably be a bigger part of the story, but I don’t feel like I know anything about them.
Evie and Mara are bland and interchangeable: I’m still not sure why there were two doctors/scientists with essentially the same expositional dialogue when there could have just been one instead.
Then as you keep reading there are just some clunky scenes/conversations like the one where a group of women are joking about liking chocolate and explaining that women really like chocolate to the male protagonist, which inexplicably spans 4 pages.
Also, everyone seems to laugh at everything in this book. A quick search reveals the word “laugh” is used 95 times in 318 pages, or roughly once every 3 pages. This must be the most hilarious universe that’s been enslaved by aliens, ever. That or the author wants me to believe that the laughing characters are friendly without putting in the work to develop them further… you can literally use a character laughing as a test of whether or not they’re a good guy or bad guy in this book.
At one point it’s explained that the twins are bonded to weapons 14/15 but then later weapon 7 appears to be the one bonded to one of the twins and not 14? Then at the end weapon 8 is also mentioned for some reason while she’s being tested by Evie? It’s not consistent.
What happens to weapon Twenty-Four, aka Omega, aka Ohm? After giving her two nicknames within five minutes of meeting her, the protagonist doesnt even mention her in the last half of the book.
Around chapter 12/13 I started to notice a lot of hallmarks of AI written text. Lists of buzzwords without a lot of meaning. Use of the qualifier “almost” before a bunch of adjectives when it doesn’t need to be used. Metaphors and similes that don’t make any sense but sound “deep.”
Example:
“Zero was present in the way only she could be: a cool clarity at the back of my thoughts, like the memory of a breeze. I was so used to her now that I almost expected her commentary, but today she was dialed down to silent encouragement, letting the moment be “mine.” If anyone else had ever spent time as the passenger in my skull, I’d compare notes, but as it was, I just felt less alone, less like a problem in need of a fix.”
“Her entire body was rimmed in soft blue-white light, like she was the ghost at the world’s weirdest tea party.”
“The place was a disaster zone somewhere between a war crime memorial and a medical equipment garage sale.”
What do any of those things even mean within the context of this story?
About 80% of the book seems to just be expositional dialogue talking about why Mike is so unique and powerful without actually showing the reader any action scenes. The story really gets bogged down by all the testing, lab scenes, note-taking, and meaningless scientific jargon peppered throughout. The action scenes are also pretty brief and the stakes feel way too low for our invincible protagonist since he can’t be defeated and he’s only fighting unliving drones like 95% of the time.
I didn’t hate the plot, but it definitely needed a few more pass-throughs before publication and at least one editor review to polish it a bit.
Some additional critiques: Lots of characters just don’t get developed at all. TJ, Dan, Roger, and Aaron are all mentioned and should presumably be a bigger part of the story, but I don’t feel like I know anything about them.
Evie and Mara are bland and interchangeable: I’m still not sure why there were two doctors/scientists with essentially the same expositional dialogue when there could have just been one instead.
Then as you keep reading there are just some clunky scenes/conversations like the one where a group of women are joking about liking chocolate and explaining that women really like chocolate to the male protagonist, which inexplicably spans 4 pages.
Also, everyone seems to laugh at everything in this book. A quick search reveals the word “laugh” is used 95 times in 318 pages, or roughly once every 3 pages. This must be the most hilarious universe that’s been enslaved by aliens, ever. That or the author wants me to believe that the laughing characters are friendly without putting in the work to develop them further… you can literally use a character laughing as a test of whether or not they’re a good guy or bad guy in this book.
At one point it’s explained that the twins are bonded to weapons 14/15 but then later weapon 7 appears to be the one bonded to one of the twins and not 14? Then at the end weapon 8 is also mentioned for some reason while she’s being tested by Evie? It’s not consistent.
What happens to weapon Twenty-Four, aka Omega, aka Ohm? After giving her two nicknames within five minutes of meeting her, the protagonist doesnt even mention her in the last half of the book.
Around chapter 12/13 I started to notice a lot of hallmarks of AI written text. Lists of buzzwords without a lot of meaning. Use of the qualifier “almost” before a bunch of adjectives when it doesn’t need to be used. Metaphors and similes that don’t make any sense but sound “deep.”
Example:
“Zero was present in the way only she could be: a cool clarity at the back of my thoughts, like the memory of a breeze. I was so used to her now that I almost expected her commentary, but today she was dialed down to silent encouragement, letting the moment be “mine.” If anyone else had ever spent time as the passenger in my skull, I’d compare notes, but as it was, I just felt less alone, less like a problem in need of a fix.”
“Her entire body was rimmed in soft blue-white light, like she was the ghost at the world’s weirdest tea party.”
“The place was a disaster zone somewhere between a war crime memorial and a medical equipment garage sale.”
What do any of those things even mean within the context of this story?
About 80% of the book seems to just be expositional dialogue talking about why Mike is so unique and powerful without actually showing the reader any action scenes. The story really gets bogged down by all the testing, lab scenes, note-taking, and meaningless scientific jargon peppered throughout. The action scenes are also pretty brief and the stakes feel way too low for our invincible protagonist since he can’t be defeated and he’s only fighting unliving drones like 95% of the time.
I didn’t hate the plot, but it definitely needed a few more pass-throughs before publication and at least one editor review to polish it a bit.
May 3, 2026
I won this in a giveaway.
April 4, 2026
I’m sorry but this was a really really poorly written book.
There were huge punctuation errors, people called different names, different tenses in the same sentence, and one personality for every character.
There were huge punctuation errors, people called different names, different tenses in the same sentence, and one personality for every character.
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