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Bolt Eaters #1
Reactivated
Human minds stranded in machines. A platoon trapped on a faraway world. Bloodthirsty aliens who will stop at nothing to bring humanity to its knees. Click now and start reading! Eric was happily retired. His consciousness resided inside the body of an advanced android. He had two beautiful female companions, a platoon of war hero friends, and the entire floor of an apartment building to call his own. He had paid his dues, having saved the world during his previous stint in the army, and now he could live out the rest of his life in peace and quiet. As an android, he expected that life to last a very long time. And then the army came knocking at his door again. Soon he and his platoon find themselves dispatched to an alien world. Piloting Devastators, mechs equipped with enough firepower to take down a small army, Eric and his platoon are scouting the planet ahead of a planned human invasion. When things start to go very wrong, and the platoon finds itself cut off from support and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Eric begins to wonder if it will truly be humanity doing the invading, and not the aliens. Book one of a standalone military science fiction trilogy, Reactivated ends in a cliffhanger. Book two, Reforged, is available now.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 27, 2018
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Isaac Hooke
102 books509 followersIsaac Hooke is the best-selling author of the Ethan Galaal series of thriller novels, as well as the SF-themed ATLAS trilogy. When Isaac isn't writing, publishing, and blogging, he's busy cycling and taking pictures in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has a degree in Engineering Physics.
You can follow Isaac on Twitter @IsaacHooke and his website http://IsaacHooke.com.
You can follow Isaac on Twitter @IsaacHooke and his website http://IsaacHooke.com.
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September 7, 2018
Couldn't give it a 5 because of sex overload.
September 7, 2018
I kind of knew this series was going to have to start some day. I thing Mr. Hooke’s “Argonauts” series has ran it’s tour and is getting kind of stale. Seems like they do the same old things and the main character has got kids which really cause unnecessary problems. So on with something fresh and new. Well, almost fresh and new. The “Bolt Eaters” were introduced in the series, “A.I. Reborn”. That one kind of ended when the Bolt Eaters saved all mankind from some pretty nasty aliens. Their story and how they came to be, especially Eric Scala, was told in that original series. I won’t go over it here.
But, as is the usual case, retired military don’t always fit in well with the population. Even when they are now perfecting looking humans, they are still Androids and those people around them pretty much know what they are. They just don’t know who they are or they might be treated a little better. Anyway, the saviors of humanity pretty much like being unknown. They didn’t want the publicity in the first place, just their freedom. That they have and are comfortably living in an apartment building in the city. The same apartment building that appears to have some kind of terrorist group attacking all the inhabitants and specifically the Bolt Eaters.
Attacking the Bolt Eaters is not a wise thing to do even if they appear to be unarmed civilian Androids. Having weapons in the city is forbidden, but not necessarily if they are well hidden, but accessible. Once the attack started, those weapons came in handy for self protection. Whoever was fighting the Bolt Eaters didn’t bring enough men or women and the Bolt Eaters were showing them their mistake. Yeah, the city police force had arrived and were taking on the terrorist, but their weapons and skill sets were no match for these military grade attackers. What the Bolt Eaters had was much better and was doing the job. Instead of being captured by the terrorist, the Bolt Eaters pretty much destroyed every terrorist involved. Yet, when they reached the bottom floor of the apartment high-rise, they met the cops and were arrested. Shooting guns in the city was against the law and well, the Bolt Eaters had shot a lot of guns that day.
Come to find out, this worked just find for the Army High Command. They had a mission for a team just like the Bolt Eaters and since the Bolt Eaters had the experience, they were going to go, one way or another. It was told to them that if the chose not to go on this mission, then backup copies of their minds would be created and those Mind Refurbs would go. Now Mind Refurbs were all explained in the first series so I suggest you read that, but they are not the same as those people with the original minds. Making refurbs would be like creating a twin of you so it’s definitely not you, but it kind of is.
Anyway, you probably have guessed that the Bolt Eaters very reluctantly accepted the mission. That mission was just an intel gathering mission on a suspected Banthar colony planet. Oh, the Banthar are the aliens that almost wiped out humanity on Earth and well, they did wipe out half of humanity. I wonder if the Bolt Eaters can just “observe” Banthar activities without get some serious payback? Read the book to find out!
But, as is the usual case, retired military don’t always fit in well with the population. Even when they are now perfecting looking humans, they are still Androids and those people around them pretty much know what they are. They just don’t know who they are or they might be treated a little better. Anyway, the saviors of humanity pretty much like being unknown. They didn’t want the publicity in the first place, just their freedom. That they have and are comfortably living in an apartment building in the city. The same apartment building that appears to have some kind of terrorist group attacking all the inhabitants and specifically the Bolt Eaters.
Attacking the Bolt Eaters is not a wise thing to do even if they appear to be unarmed civilian Androids. Having weapons in the city is forbidden, but not necessarily if they are well hidden, but accessible. Once the attack started, those weapons came in handy for self protection. Whoever was fighting the Bolt Eaters didn’t bring enough men or women and the Bolt Eaters were showing them their mistake. Yeah, the city police force had arrived and were taking on the terrorist, but their weapons and skill sets were no match for these military grade attackers. What the Bolt Eaters had was much better and was doing the job. Instead of being captured by the terrorist, the Bolt Eaters pretty much destroyed every terrorist involved. Yet, when they reached the bottom floor of the apartment high-rise, they met the cops and were arrested. Shooting guns in the city was against the law and well, the Bolt Eaters had shot a lot of guns that day.
Come to find out, this worked just find for the Army High Command. They had a mission for a team just like the Bolt Eaters and since the Bolt Eaters had the experience, they were going to go, one way or another. It was told to them that if the chose not to go on this mission, then backup copies of their minds would be created and those Mind Refurbs would go. Now Mind Refurbs were all explained in the first series so I suggest you read that, but they are not the same as those people with the original minds. Making refurbs would be like creating a twin of you so it’s definitely not you, but it kind of is.
Anyway, you probably have guessed that the Bolt Eaters very reluctantly accepted the mission. That mission was just an intel gathering mission on a suspected Banthar colony planet. Oh, the Banthar are the aliens that almost wiped out humanity on Earth and well, they did wipe out half of humanity. I wonder if the Bolt Eaters can just “observe” Banthar activities without get some serious payback? Read the book to find out!
August 29, 2018
"A yellow Christmas ."
20 years before, the surviving Bolt Eaters were officially retirered, given Android bodies to live their lives as they wkshed, without interference. But now, they are officially reactivated to go down the newly found wormhole which just might connect with the old enemy, the Banthors.
With Isaac Hooke's trademark comedic, sometimes crude, banter between the team members and fu!l on offensive fighting mech action described in vivid detail, the tale of the .men made machines continues in all of it's imaginative glory.
For this reader, one of the best in the combined series so far and recommended to all who enjoy unconventional military S.F. With great characterisation with an helping of humour.
20 years before, the surviving Bolt Eaters were officially retirered, given Android bodies to live their lives as they wkshed, without interference. But now, they are officially reactivated to go down the newly found wormhole which just might connect with the old enemy, the Banthors.
With Isaac Hooke's trademark comedic, sometimes crude, banter between the team members and fu!l on offensive fighting mech action described in vivid detail, the tale of the .men made machines continues in all of it's imaginative glory.
For this reader, one of the best in the combined series so far and recommended to all who enjoy unconventional military S.F. With great characterisation with an helping of humour.
October 12, 2018
Waste of good reading time
Illogical threads and event's even for syfy. Good such leaves one thinking "Well, that might be possible someday". Ending left reader totally up in the air. I was just glad to finish the book and was not at all interested in finding out what happens next.
Illogical threads and event's even for syfy. Good such leaves one thinking "Well, that might be possible someday". Ending left reader totally up in the air. I was just glad to finish the book and was not at all interested in finding out what happens next.
September 6, 2018
They just keep going, I hope!
The team is maturing but are they strong enough and smart enough for this task? And then the enemy is not who and what they thought. The twist was unexpected and intriguing. Ok, I need that next volumn NOW!
The team is maturing but are they strong enough and smart enough for this task? And then the enemy is not who and what they thought. The twist was unexpected and intriguing. Ok, I need that next volumn NOW!
September 8, 2018
Another new series from author Isaac Hooke. Hooke’s writing is again, a little more adult in nature with the soldierly banter, but everything that made you love his writing before is present in this new adventure. Again he's dealing with AIs as the main characters.
September 15, 2018
Another good book off the conveyor belt. My only criticism is it needs more military action and banter and less soap opera. To much Friends and not enough full metal jacket. Hence 4 stars.
September 16, 2018
Eric foiled an attempt at an assassination and thus comes under the umbrella of the military.In exchange for a recon of a foreign planet they would be granted their freedom.
October 31, 2018
Isaak Hooke's Bolt eaters Had Good Science Fiction BUT was ruined by Repetitive Battle plots and SUPER REPETITIVE CHILDISHLY OBSESSIVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HUMAN GENITALIA.
January 4, 2019
Another great Bolt Eaters story!
Once again the bugs of your nightmares are released on our hero's! This time with a twist from the past!!what will happen?...tune in next book
Once again the bugs of your nightmares are released on our hero's! This time with a twist from the past!!what will happen?...tune in next book
July 7, 2019
2.5 I guess, Not really feeling this one and it is a DNF and a pass for now.
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