LIGHTS Coming home for summer break, two film school students, Bradley and Tag, decide to shoot a staged UFO encounter video, one that could potentially generate a lot of attention and a lot of clicks on YouTube. Unexpectedly for both of them, during the filming they accidentally discover a real alien presence in the dark waters near their coastal home town.
ENCOUNTER In an attempt to prove it to the world that crop circles are man-made and aliens don’t really exist, Ricky and his team of young enthusiasts (including one particular enthusiast, Josh, who is hopelessly in love with Ricky) start falsifying the phenomenon by creating their own crop circles. Their endeavors prove successful, pretty much so, but only until the day when Ricky sees his unique circle design replicated throughout the country by the force unknown.
Encounter brings author Perie Wolford back to the genre where he is most comfortable: science fiction. Perie has come up with a seriously awesome read that is both scary, fascinating and at the same time, bewildering. This is a suspense, thriller science fiction camera footage novel that relates how Ricky and his team of myth busters do some scary stuff in an effort to smash all alien-origin concept on crop circles. His cameraman is his long time friend, Josh, and just happens to be secretly in love with Ricky. Ricky's team, through a blog, attempts to correct the misconceptions about the origin of crop circles by making fake ones. As a camera footage novel, this is one fantastic read. It was like reading The Blair Witch Project without the blood and gore. Mix in a dash of the mysterious X Files and just to add spice, a little bit of Contact. This is one fascinating story that reads so fast, the goosebumps started to rise and never calmed down until the very end.
5 stars for the first story, barely 3 Stars for the second.
The first story was so well told, the characters were rich & believable. It was hugely emotional for me. Especially at the end, it ended quite nicely. I’d recommend the first story. But not the second...
I'm sorry everyone! I could not get past page 2 because of struggling sentence structure. an author like this may have brewed up a great story, but if it sounds like the narrator can barely get by on half sentences and run on runaway thoughts, it won't work for me :(
A really fun read Got me turning pages like crazy Loved the UFO hunting and the crop circles I was so taken by the process And how tricky they got with all the ropes Romance was a nice addition to all of it Nice!