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Retrieval
Jake Webster thought spending two weeks of leave from a combat zone would be a relaxing event. Just before he arrived, he started to notice lapses in his memory. Not simple lapses people experience as they age such as lost keys, forgotten names, or forgotten birthdays. No, these lapses ran deeper than that. Suddenly, he couldn't recall his childhood, his parents, his friends. To add to this, he can't reach his parents via phone. Naturally, the first thing Jake did was to reach out to his best friend, Chad Wells, an eccentric inventor for the UNIS Corporation and DARPA, but Chad seems to have disappeared as well and can't be located. With the help of his ex-girlfriend, Allison Deming, Jake embarks and in many ways, is pulled into a journey to recover his lost memory and find his best friend. This journey takes the two of them beyond Earth in search for answers and as things spiral out of control and become crazier than Jake could ever have imagined; he will be exposed to a past he can't believe and a future he can't ignore. Will Jake Webster find his friend? Will he find his memory? Find out answers to these questions and more in what is to be the first book of The Universal Alliance Chronicles.
289 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2017
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James Gammage
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April 12, 2017
I wrote it so... I loved it!
February 5, 2024
First of all, I really wanted to really enjoy this one.
Ultimately I felt like there was a lot to be desired that could have been easily remedied by time and distance; had the author taken some time to let the novel sit before publishing, or had editors who weren't so close to the hype, the final product would be better polished and the story more thoroughly explained. I felt like a lot of it exists in the author's head and since the readers aren't in his head we miss a lot of the nuance this story clearly needs to be fun. Why did Jake and Chad get to live out sweet lives on Earth while his 32,000 member crew got to dig a hole on a moon? Are all these big hints about Jake being violent supposed to also hint to us that Jake is just generally an ass and we should dislike him as the protagonist? Could we replace Shadow with an upturned mop and get the same effect? Surely the half a paragraph about her origins isn't all we get, right?
Ultimately, I felt like the book would have been better served by including the thoughts and perspectives of the other characters earlier on, because as written the "surprise" that Jake was really from space wasn't worth the 100 pages of listening to him complain about his memory loss without doing anything about it.
Ultimately I felt like there was a lot to be desired that could have been easily remedied by time and distance; had the author taken some time to let the novel sit before publishing, or had editors who weren't so close to the hype, the final product would be better polished and the story more thoroughly explained. I felt like a lot of it exists in the author's head and since the readers aren't in his head we miss a lot of the nuance this story clearly needs to be fun. Why did Jake and Chad get to live out sweet lives on Earth while his 32,000 member crew got to dig a hole on a moon? Are all these big hints about Jake being violent supposed to also hint to us that Jake is just generally an ass and we should dislike him as the protagonist? Could we replace Shadow with an upturned mop and get the same effect? Surely the half a paragraph about her origins isn't all we get, right?
Ultimately, I felt like the book would have been better served by including the thoughts and perspectives of the other characters earlier on, because as written the "surprise" that Jake was really from space wasn't worth the 100 pages of listening to him complain about his memory loss without doing anything about it.
August 9, 2017
I am an avid reader, all styles, this a great read! Was easy to read
I loved the box can't wait for the second part, you fall in love with the characters and plot line.
I loved the box can't wait for the second part, you fall in love with the characters and plot line.
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