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Project Domain
Things have been strange in the small town of Garrett, Ontario.
Things have been way stranger underneath it.
Garrett is the kind of town where people know each other. Everyone knows the police chief is a good guy. Everyone knows the lady at the grocery store is extra helpful. Everyone has the local principal on speed dial.
And everyone knows Scotty Waymore is a little bit of a nut. He hears voices — or the Voice, as he calls it. And he believes the Voice is telling him something important. Something so important he won’t be medicated even if his wife leaves him and his daughter avoids him.
When grisly murders and bad accidents begin to happen in Garrett and he sees people who died walking around, Scotty wonders whether to talk about it and be thought completely insane — until suspicious newcomers become uncommonly interested in what he has to say.
And until the owner of the Voice shows up to turn Scotty's world upside down. Literally.
Because it's not what happens on the surface that matters; it's what has been going on beneath it for decades: a top-secret government project involving captured aliens with dangerous powers.
One of them has made its escape, and government agents are desperately hunting it.
Except that the villains and heroes are not necessarily who one might think . . .
Scotty Waymore knows that; and he needs others to know before it's too late.
Things have been way stranger underneath it.
Garrett is the kind of town where people know each other. Everyone knows the police chief is a good guy. Everyone knows the lady at the grocery store is extra helpful. Everyone has the local principal on speed dial.
And everyone knows Scotty Waymore is a little bit of a nut. He hears voices — or the Voice, as he calls it. And he believes the Voice is telling him something important. Something so important he won’t be medicated even if his wife leaves him and his daughter avoids him.
When grisly murders and bad accidents begin to happen in Garrett and he sees people who died walking around, Scotty wonders whether to talk about it and be thought completely insane — until suspicious newcomers become uncommonly interested in what he has to say.
And until the owner of the Voice shows up to turn Scotty's world upside down. Literally.
Because it's not what happens on the surface that matters; it's what has been going on beneath it for decades: a top-secret government project involving captured aliens with dangerous powers.
One of them has made its escape, and government agents are desperately hunting it.
Except that the villains and heroes are not necessarily who one might think . . .
Scotty Waymore knows that; and he needs others to know before it's too late.
- GenresScience Fiction
342 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2022
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October 2, 2022
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.
In the wilds of Canada, there is a deep underground prison, with extraterrestrials as the inmates. An unapproved potluck brings disaster, when the staff gets food poisoning.
This allows a very dangerous alien to escape.
Even though it's a gore fest, it still seems very polite.
In the wilds of Canada, there is a deep underground prison, with extraterrestrials as the inmates. An unapproved potluck brings disaster, when the staff gets food poisoning.
This allows a very dangerous alien to escape.
Even though it's a gore fest, it still seems very polite.
October 26, 2022
I won a Kindle copy of this book on Goodreads. It has to do with species from other planets that are kept by the government deep underground in cells, where they are studied and sometimes punished.
It was a unique and imaginative story - BUT... it's obvious that the author never hired a professional editor. I would read a chapter or two, set the book aside then come back to it later. I noticed when I came back to it later at the beginning of Chapter 21 that the text seemed very familiar. After a search, I saw that the formal Chapter 21 was, in fact, also the second half of Chapter 20, word for word. Woe to those who feel they do not need a professional editor. Every author does, no matter how brilliant they may be.
In the first part of the story there were too many characters and I wondered how many of them I needed to remember. Realized I was unable to. So then I keyed in on the events instead and was able to follow those. Later in the book the number of characters dwindled down to about a dozen and I was able to once again follow the characters plus the events.
It was a unique and imaginative story - BUT... it's obvious that the author never hired a professional editor. I would read a chapter or two, set the book aside then come back to it later. I noticed when I came back to it later at the beginning of Chapter 21 that the text seemed very familiar. After a search, I saw that the formal Chapter 21 was, in fact, also the second half of Chapter 20, word for word. Woe to those who feel they do not need a professional editor. Every author does, no matter how brilliant they may be.
In the first part of the story there were too many characters and I wondered how many of them I needed to remember. Realized I was unable to. So then I keyed in on the events instead and was able to follow those. Later in the book the number of characters dwindled down to about a dozen and I was able to once again follow the characters plus the events.
April 6, 2023
I was not far into “Project Domain” before I was cheering on the aliens. I love the descriptive writing of SL Luck in all of her novels. I am reeled in quickly and have a visual of the characters, their surroundings and in this case the aliens. I highly recommend this novel it is easy to pick up and read a bit when time allows but you won’t want to put it down. It kept me guessing and cheering and anticipating S L Lucks next book.
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September 30, 2022DNF. This was a goodreads giveaway. The humor in the opening chapters wasn’t my preference.
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