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Randor's Moon
Randor Delphin, shy teen prodigy, bio-scientist, and total nerd, lives a lonely, orphaned life on the planet of Malloran, a colony of the now-dead Earth. Malloran has been at war with the neighboring world of Falanar, a warrior planet, but their differences will be set aside if aid is given, as a plague of unknown origin has broken out, and only the scientists of Malloran can help.
Accompanying Randor is Minnara, the daughter of the rulers of that world. As total opposites in character, they don’t get along at all, and to make matters worse, their ship veers off course and crash lands on a distant moon.
Once there, they learn that they need each other in order to survive against the predators of that world, those that are animal, and those more than animal.
Accompanying Randor is Minnara, the daughter of the rulers of that world. As total opposites in character, they don’t get along at all, and to make matters worse, their ship veers off course and crash lands on a distant moon.
Once there, they learn that they need each other in order to survive against the predators of that world, those that are animal, and those more than animal.
233 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 18, 2019
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About the author
J.S. Frankel
92 books237 followersJ.S. Frankel was born in Toronto, Canada, many moons ago and managed to scrape through high school and university, earning a BA in English Literature and leaving no book unopened during his time at the University of Toronto. Shortly after graduation, he moved to Japan in order to teach English to the hapless residents of whichever city he happened to be living at the time.
In 1997, he married the charming Akiko Koike and their union produced two rather interesting children. Frankel and his family make their home in Osaka where he teaches during the day and attempts to write YA fiction at night.
In 1997, he married the charming Akiko Koike and their union produced two rather interesting children. Frankel and his family make their home in Osaka where he teaches during the day and attempts to write YA fiction at night.
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January 9, 2021
This is book 12 I have read from Jesse Frankle, and with each book I am amazed of his imagination. Every book is different and, yes, I say it, it's amazing again.
Randor's Moon, the latest, grabbed me from the beginning. A great story about a teenage bio-scientist, how he tried to find a cure for there plague and safe the people of an alien planet. Not all agreed, that he want to help them, so manipulated his ship, that he and the daughter of the ruler of that planet, would crash on another moon, where cannibal people live. Getting to know the young lady, they fall in love. But will they survive until the rescue ship would come?
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Randor's Moon, the latest, grabbed me from the beginning. A great story about a teenage bio-scientist, how he tried to find a cure for there plague and safe the people of an alien planet. Not all agreed, that he want to help them, so manipulated his ship, that he and the daughter of the ruler of that planet, would crash on another moon, where cannibal people live. Getting to know the young lady, they fall in love. But will they survive until the rescue ship would come?
Find out
September 14, 2022
He’s a scientist. She’s a warrior. Their people are enemies, but they have to rely on each other to survive.
Trapped on a hostile moon with few resources, Randor and Minnara start out as unwilling allies. Their cultures and backgrounds are very different, and they start out not on the best of terms.
Battling fierce alien monsters with the threat of an incurable disease hanging over them, things are not ideal. However, along the way they start respecting each other. The relationship that develops is honest and equal, neither angsty nor saccharine, Randor and Minnara complement each other.
Things go from bad to worse, and I was surprised by the twist at the end!
This is a thrilling ride with lots of danger and risk. The story punches hard and never lets up. A really enjoyable read that will keep you turning pages until the end.
Well done!
My rating: five stars
Trapped on a hostile moon with few resources, Randor and Minnara start out as unwilling allies. Their cultures and backgrounds are very different, and they start out not on the best of terms.
Battling fierce alien monsters with the threat of an incurable disease hanging over them, things are not ideal. However, along the way they start respecting each other. The relationship that develops is honest and equal, neither angsty nor saccharine, Randor and Minnara complement each other.
Things go from bad to worse, and I was surprised by the twist at the end!
This is a thrilling ride with lots of danger and risk. The story punches hard and never lets up. A really enjoyable read that will keep you turning pages until the end.
Well done!
My rating: five stars
November 26, 2019
I received this book as a gift. I was a little confused at the beginning, but pulled into the story soon after. This story of opposites and enemies can band together when war, disease and the end times are so near is a great story. This is a good read for fans of Sci-Fi.
November 4, 2019
Not every hero is brash and bold.
The action-packed opening scene drew me into the plot immediately. Randor was unlucky enough to live in a time and place where war had reached his town. With that being said, he was also lucky enough to be part of a community that banded together in tough times and did everything they could to protect each other. I enjoyed reading about how they responded to the bombing, and I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. This was a fantastic introduction to this tale.
There were a few plot twists that I found hard to believe. For example, I struggled to imagine how an eighteen-year-old who had virtually no experience flying a spaceship was given one when his culture was so short on supplies due to the war. Surely they could have spared someone to fly him to his destination since there was a ceasefire happening when he left? There was also a twist related to the plague and Randor’s search for a cure for it. As smart and educated as he was, I had trouble believing that one person could do all of the work on this problem that he did. I’m mentioning these criticisms as someone who loved the premise of this book and really wanted to give it a higher rating. If the sheer desperation of his elders had been explained in a way that made a better case for why they took these risks, I would have happily knocked my rating up by at least another star.
I couldn’t have asked for a more interesting main character than Randor. His shy personality and struggles with making small talk endeared me to him immediately. It’s not every day I read a science fiction novel about quiet, gentle protagonists who act like this, so it’s refreshing when it does happen. Any personality type can be heroic. Seeing what that looks like for those of us who aren’t the life of the party makes me hope that other authors will step outside of the mold and imagine even more ways of being a hero.
Randor’s Moon should be read by anyone who has ever dreamed what life on other planets might be like.
The action-packed opening scene drew me into the plot immediately. Randor was unlucky enough to live in a time and place where war had reached his town. With that being said, he was also lucky enough to be part of a community that banded together in tough times and did everything they could to protect each other. I enjoyed reading about how they responded to the bombing, and I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. This was a fantastic introduction to this tale.
There were a few plot twists that I found hard to believe. For example, I struggled to imagine how an eighteen-year-old who had virtually no experience flying a spaceship was given one when his culture was so short on supplies due to the war. Surely they could have spared someone to fly him to his destination since there was a ceasefire happening when he left? There was also a twist related to the plague and Randor’s search for a cure for it. As smart and educated as he was, I had trouble believing that one person could do all of the work on this problem that he did. I’m mentioning these criticisms as someone who loved the premise of this book and really wanted to give it a higher rating. If the sheer desperation of his elders had been explained in a way that made a better case for why they took these risks, I would have happily knocked my rating up by at least another star.
I couldn’t have asked for a more interesting main character than Randor. His shy personality and struggles with making small talk endeared me to him immediately. It’s not every day I read a science fiction novel about quiet, gentle protagonists who act like this, so it’s refreshing when it does happen. Any personality type can be heroic. Seeing what that looks like for those of us who aren’t the life of the party makes me hope that other authors will step outside of the mold and imagine even more ways of being a hero.
Randor’s Moon should be read by anyone who has ever dreamed what life on other planets might be like.
November 8, 2022
Complex intergalactic conflict? Political intrigue? Deception and betrayal? If these things are your cup of tea, then Randor’s Moon is a must-read for you!
Randor, a young scientist – one of the last living scientists among his people – is tasked with the impossible: finding a cure to a virus found in a race of creatures he’s never met until that afternoon. And if he doesn’t? No big deal. The creatures of Falanar will just keep bombing his planet into extinction.
With the fate of his people hanging in the balance, Randor journeys with Minnara, the Crown Princess of this warring nation, to Falanar in order to run his tests and apply a cure, but things go terribly wrong when their navigation system forces their spacecraft into the tail of a passing comet. This freak accident (or was it an accident?) destroys their craft, marooning them on a moon inhabited by fearsome and horrific creatures.
If Randor and Minnara wish to survive, they will have to find some way to put aside their grievances and work together. Things only get increasingly complicated, however, when the sentient inhabitants of the planet become hostile, Minnara starts to show symptoms of the virus, and help is slow to arrive. If Randor’s wits and Minnara’s strength fail, it’s only a matter of time before they succumb to the terrors of this frightening world, and with their deaths will come the extinction of both of their peoples.
J. S. Frankel keeps you on your toes and guessing all the way to the end of this Young Adult Sci-Fi tale of self-resilience and survival!
Randor, a young scientist – one of the last living scientists among his people – is tasked with the impossible: finding a cure to a virus found in a race of creatures he’s never met until that afternoon. And if he doesn’t? No big deal. The creatures of Falanar will just keep bombing his planet into extinction.
With the fate of his people hanging in the balance, Randor journeys with Minnara, the Crown Princess of this warring nation, to Falanar in order to run his tests and apply a cure, but things go terribly wrong when their navigation system forces their spacecraft into the tail of a passing comet. This freak accident (or was it an accident?) destroys their craft, marooning them on a moon inhabited by fearsome and horrific creatures.
If Randor and Minnara wish to survive, they will have to find some way to put aside their grievances and work together. Things only get increasingly complicated, however, when the sentient inhabitants of the planet become hostile, Minnara starts to show symptoms of the virus, and help is slow to arrive. If Randor’s wits and Minnara’s strength fail, it’s only a matter of time before they succumb to the terrors of this frightening world, and with their deaths will come the extinction of both of their peoples.
J. S. Frankel keeps you on your toes and guessing all the way to the end of this Young Adult Sci-Fi tale of self-resilience and survival!
November 6, 2019
Title: Randor’s Moon
Author: J. S. Frankel
Publisher: Devine Destinies
ISBN: B07Z37MSH2
Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Randors-Moon-J...
Reviewer: Teresa Fallen Angel
Blurb:
Randor Delphin, shy teen prodigy, bio-scientist, and total nerd, lives a lonely, orphaned life on the planet of Malloran, a colony of the now-dead Earth. Malloran has been at war with the neighboring world of Falanar, a warrior planet, but their differences will be set aside if aid is given, as a plague of unknown origin has broken out, and only the scientists of Malloran can help.
Accompanying Randor is Minnara, the daughter of the rulers of that world. As total opposites in character, they don’t get along at all, and to make matters worse, their ship veers off course and crash lands on a distant moon.
Once there, they learn that they need each other in order to survive against the predators of that world, those that are animal, and those more than animal.
Total Score: 5/5
Summary:
Randor never quite fit in his society. Even after he used his advanced skills to save his people from a plague that killed millions he still existed apart. Now his world is fighting a war against another world with no end in sight until their enemies, the Falanar, come to them for help. They are dying off from a plague and their only hope could be found in the one last Bio-scientist Randor. Finding himself in the middle of two worlds where they only way to stop the war is the possibility curing a disease killing an alien race that no one from Randor’s world has even scene.
This was a fast paced and compelling story taking the reader to unknown worlds experiencing future technology and alien situations. Randor may be a young man, but his intellectual abilities have already saved his own people. It was fascinating how Randor and Minnara, a Falanar, ma be from different worlds, but after spending time together marooned on a hostile world they learned they were more similar than they first thought. As they became friends they learned that to stay alive they needed to trust and support each other. Minnara’s fighting skills and Randor’s advanced knowledge will be put to the test as they fight for their very lives in unknown world. Their bond will be all that stands between them as they wait for a rescue that may never come.
Author: J. S. Frankel
Publisher: Devine Destinies
ISBN: B07Z37MSH2
Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Randors-Moon-J...
Reviewer: Teresa Fallen Angel
Blurb:
Randor Delphin, shy teen prodigy, bio-scientist, and total nerd, lives a lonely, orphaned life on the planet of Malloran, a colony of the now-dead Earth. Malloran has been at war with the neighboring world of Falanar, a warrior planet, but their differences will be set aside if aid is given, as a plague of unknown origin has broken out, and only the scientists of Malloran can help.
Accompanying Randor is Minnara, the daughter of the rulers of that world. As total opposites in character, they don’t get along at all, and to make matters worse, their ship veers off course and crash lands on a distant moon.
Once there, they learn that they need each other in order to survive against the predators of that world, those that are animal, and those more than animal.
Total Score: 5/5
Summary:
Randor never quite fit in his society. Even after he used his advanced skills to save his people from a plague that killed millions he still existed apart. Now his world is fighting a war against another world with no end in sight until their enemies, the Falanar, come to them for help. They are dying off from a plague and their only hope could be found in the one last Bio-scientist Randor. Finding himself in the middle of two worlds where they only way to stop the war is the possibility curing a disease killing an alien race that no one from Randor’s world has even scene.
This was a fast paced and compelling story taking the reader to unknown worlds experiencing future technology and alien situations. Randor may be a young man, but his intellectual abilities have already saved his own people. It was fascinating how Randor and Minnara, a Falanar, ma be from different worlds, but after spending time together marooned on a hostile world they learned they were more similar than they first thought. As they became friends they learned that to stay alive they needed to trust and support each other. Minnara’s fighting skills and Randor’s advanced knowledge will be put to the test as they fight for their very lives in unknown world. Their bond will be all that stands between them as they wait for a rescue that may never come.
November 6, 2024
A teenage chemist. A doubtful and dangerous group. What can possibly go wrong? Frankel achieves another page turning story! Highly recommend for all ages!
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