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The Ship
Casey Stevens awakens within a crashed alien vessel thirty-five years after she was abducted. Navigating inverted tunnels, she i plagued by ghostly apparitions from her past and stalked by a ravenous, mutated experiment gone horribly wrong. When Casey discovers her own body is changing--becoming blotched with grey, scaly patches--she fears she may face the same fate as the once-human creature that now hunts her. Taking inspiration from 1990s science fiction tropes, such as alien abduction, UFO coverups, and mutant hybrids, author Doug Brode offers a new twist on familiar themes and plays against the reader's expectations at every turn. The deeper you delve inside The Ship, the more terrible the answers become. The truth is not what you think.
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Published September 14, 2021
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Doug Brode
5 books14 followersDoug Brode is the author of five novels, including the SHELLI mysteries and the Ship Saga. He was the creator of Cinemax’s sexy sci-fi series Forbidden Science, as well as a storyboard/concept artist on such popular films as Star Trek, Iron Man, Thor, Looper, Van Helsing, Planet of the Apes, MIB: International, among many others. He lives in California with his wife, Pamela, and their two children, Hayden and Leia.
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January 26, 2023
The Ship is the perfect book to read if you're a fan of the x-files! I loved it and can't wait to read the sequel.
June 20, 2022
Gave up about a quarter way into it.
August 9, 2023
Another self published book review, here we go.
Convening timelines and character interactions lead to an interesting tale. The summary does it no justice as it only covers the beginning chapters. Casey Stevens: Abducted by aliens, forced to save the Earth as part of a time traveling experiment with DNA. I wanted this to be an action packed tale or one about coming-of-age with a young woman, but alas. Not a bad book but it made me lose interest quickly and the ending resolution left a lot to be desired.
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The story:
Casey was abducted in 1985. Arthur, her college age boyfriend, now 60 as the book jumps forward to “present day”, was there; he is then contacted by Reese. Major Reese, daughter Noelle, mother was Sergeant Susie Chatsworth- None of this information is too important, Casey is the real main character but she was drowned out in the end with the overload of added characters.
So this alien ship lands in the Oregon wilderness except it’s a time traveling alien ship and it has red mist aliens that turn people into zombies. We have like five different story lines of people interacting with the ship, getting on the ship, working with the ship, and they all convene at the end. Confusingly I might add because the chapters swap back-and-forth from their POV and it’s difficult to maintain who is attacking who and who is alive - when it swaps every 4 pages.
To make it even more confusing, the book is about time travel. Where in the end the ship that has crossed several different timelines ends up crashing in Roswell. They were looking for a DNA host to fix a timeline where machines take over and Casey said no. Are you telling me a woman with nanites in her blood took down an entire alien outpost by just saying NO a lot and then crashing their ship…
The pacing is good at the beginning but stumbles all over itself towards the end. We have multiple characters describing the same event from different POV at the same time, slowing down the action and the chapters unnecessarily. The book is part of a series so I can only assume the other volumes will continue the tale but either way it's not resolved in a clean bow. It jumps the shark, having the ship “return” to its home planet/base and becomes a completely different story.
The ending is unsatisfactory, Casey has a twist at the end where her father raped her, it gets blown outta proportion, leave it to a male author to screw it up. Her dead father ghosts over her, the rape scene is described more than once as she has PTSD over it, he then becomes the ship’s AI, its all a hot mess. I guess the underlying message is she redoes her past, but she doesn't, she just hides out in the past to set up the future. The future which- is a loop, humans become the aliens and the aliens destroy themselves, but return to the past (unless you read the rest of the series I guess?). Really doesn’t bode well that she confronts her imaginary father for being a pedophile rapist, and then trusts “him” as the AI and that the ship has been “helping” her all along.
Casey gets mad about humans not consenting to being experiments but this concept is lost as the aliens manipulated her DNA to prevent death- yet also cause it to rewrite humans- it's all just so drawn out. She's actually mad about being stripped away from her 1980’s life and being told that she is now a cure/plague to save/kill mankind, but her emotions aren’t solidified and she just thrashes around the ship with her other disposable abductees.
The characters:
Every black character dies, one time the author just said “African-American” to mix it up. Continuing the trend that white authors think white is normal because no one else had their ethnicity described.
Every female character is either naked at one point or is sexualized in some way. Even Arthur (a teacher) is distracted by one of his underage students wearing a leotard, very unnecessary. Casey orgasms as she flies the ship, very unnecessary.
Many of the characters had way too big a part in the story for them to do nothing but run around and provide a side story or side POV to the events. I didn’t need a kid running around, shooting his dad, finding his mom naked, taking care of sister- added in while agents are searching the UFO and fighting zombies.
Questions unanswered:
Why is Major Reese important? All he did was have a daughter and have war flashbacks, nothing he does impacts the plot. Nothing anyone does is important except for Casey and then a ripple effect of who was hit by it. Arthur was important because love interest, but Reese is just there to be military.
How did Casey survive being abducted when the book says her chamber broke open and her surviving at all was luck, did the ship know? Was it planned? Is this bad writing saying our main character just has plot armor that keeps her alive?
If all the events happen due to her falling out of her tube and living, due to her crashing the ship, due to her getting special DNA, then she should have freed herself and/or had a plot where she died/killed herself to prevent a continuity error (or from meeting herself), instead we just, don't hear about it at all. Why is she worried about turning into a monster when only the mist turns people into monsters? And when she did turn, she was just a gray who could barely stand? If the monster running around the ship was her, we could have used more detail on that, it would have been a better bow, especially since she sicks the monster on the “seekers” at the space port needle thing.
If each time travel event happens on a new timeline then it's not a loop- but it is??? Casey was dropped off in the 50s, taken in the 80s, broken out from her tube in the 2010’s, then the entirety of the events mean the ship accomplished nothing and no ending is resolved, to every other character except her, the ship just disappears- as does she. Would that mean the aliens never come from us? Would that mean the ship never gets sent in the first place?
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“Pregnant pause” - this phrase gets on my nerves, every time a book uses it I hate it.
“Physicists study the vast number of stars, examining equations in mathematical odds, and say there must be something else out there like us. Biologists look down at our own planet, add all the specific things that occurred for evolution to work, and say, ‘not likely’. It’s not a math equation but if it were, the sheer odds of other sentient life even remotely like us are incalculable -even the vastness of outer space.” p 18 -love it, loved all the science
Convening timelines and character interactions lead to an interesting tale. The summary does it no justice as it only covers the beginning chapters. Casey Stevens: Abducted by aliens, forced to save the Earth as part of a time traveling experiment with DNA. I wanted this to be an action packed tale or one about coming-of-age with a young woman, but alas. Not a bad book but it made me lose interest quickly and the ending resolution left a lot to be desired.
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The story:
Casey was abducted in 1985. Arthur, her college age boyfriend, now 60 as the book jumps forward to “present day”, was there; he is then contacted by Reese. Major Reese, daughter Noelle, mother was Sergeant Susie Chatsworth- None of this information is too important, Casey is the real main character but she was drowned out in the end with the overload of added characters.
So this alien ship lands in the Oregon wilderness except it’s a time traveling alien ship and it has red mist aliens that turn people into zombies. We have like five different story lines of people interacting with the ship, getting on the ship, working with the ship, and they all convene at the end. Confusingly I might add because the chapters swap back-and-forth from their POV and it’s difficult to maintain who is attacking who and who is alive - when it swaps every 4 pages.
To make it even more confusing, the book is about time travel. Where in the end the ship that has crossed several different timelines ends up crashing in Roswell. They were looking for a DNA host to fix a timeline where machines take over and Casey said no. Are you telling me a woman with nanites in her blood took down an entire alien outpost by just saying NO a lot and then crashing their ship…
The pacing is good at the beginning but stumbles all over itself towards the end. We have multiple characters describing the same event from different POV at the same time, slowing down the action and the chapters unnecessarily. The book is part of a series so I can only assume the other volumes will continue the tale but either way it's not resolved in a clean bow. It jumps the shark, having the ship “return” to its home planet/base and becomes a completely different story.
The ending is unsatisfactory, Casey has a twist at the end where her father raped her, it gets blown outta proportion, leave it to a male author to screw it up. Her dead father ghosts over her, the rape scene is described more than once as she has PTSD over it, he then becomes the ship’s AI, its all a hot mess. I guess the underlying message is she redoes her past, but she doesn't, she just hides out in the past to set up the future. The future which- is a loop, humans become the aliens and the aliens destroy themselves, but return to the past (unless you read the rest of the series I guess?). Really doesn’t bode well that she confronts her imaginary father for being a pedophile rapist, and then trusts “him” as the AI and that the ship has been “helping” her all along.
Casey gets mad about humans not consenting to being experiments but this concept is lost as the aliens manipulated her DNA to prevent death- yet also cause it to rewrite humans- it's all just so drawn out. She's actually mad about being stripped away from her 1980’s life and being told that she is now a cure/plague to save/kill mankind, but her emotions aren’t solidified and she just thrashes around the ship with her other disposable abductees.
The characters:
Every black character dies, one time the author just said “African-American” to mix it up. Continuing the trend that white authors think white is normal because no one else had their ethnicity described.
Every female character is either naked at one point or is sexualized in some way. Even Arthur (a teacher) is distracted by one of his underage students wearing a leotard, very unnecessary. Casey orgasms as she flies the ship, very unnecessary.
Many of the characters had way too big a part in the story for them to do nothing but run around and provide a side story or side POV to the events. I didn’t need a kid running around, shooting his dad, finding his mom naked, taking care of sister- added in while agents are searching the UFO and fighting zombies.
Questions unanswered:
Why is Major Reese important? All he did was have a daughter and have war flashbacks, nothing he does impacts the plot. Nothing anyone does is important except for Casey and then a ripple effect of who was hit by it. Arthur was important because love interest, but Reese is just there to be military.
How did Casey survive being abducted when the book says her chamber broke open and her surviving at all was luck, did the ship know? Was it planned? Is this bad writing saying our main character just has plot armor that keeps her alive?
If all the events happen due to her falling out of her tube and living, due to her crashing the ship, due to her getting special DNA, then she should have freed herself and/or had a plot where she died/killed herself to prevent a continuity error (or from meeting herself), instead we just, don't hear about it at all. Why is she worried about turning into a monster when only the mist turns people into monsters? And when she did turn, she was just a gray who could barely stand? If the monster running around the ship was her, we could have used more detail on that, it would have been a better bow, especially since she sicks the monster on the “seekers” at the space port needle thing.
If each time travel event happens on a new timeline then it's not a loop- but it is??? Casey was dropped off in the 50s, taken in the 80s, broken out from her tube in the 2010’s, then the entirety of the events mean the ship accomplished nothing and no ending is resolved, to every other character except her, the ship just disappears- as does she. Would that mean the aliens never come from us? Would that mean the ship never gets sent in the first place?
--
“Pregnant pause” - this phrase gets on my nerves, every time a book uses it I hate it.
“Physicists study the vast number of stars, examining equations in mathematical odds, and say there must be something else out there like us. Biologists look down at our own planet, add all the specific things that occurred for evolution to work, and say, ‘not likely’. It’s not a math equation but if it were, the sheer odds of other sentient life even remotely like us are incalculable -even the vastness of outer space.” p 18 -love it, loved all the science
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 17, 2021
I received a free review copy of this audio book, at my request, and am voluntarily leaving this unbiased review.
This book has a very interesting premise. An alien ship takes people and crashes in the forest. I won't spoil anything but suffice to say this book combines Alien abduction, time travel and military sci fi. It blends all these genres together and does it well.
The characters are well rounded, with deep back stories. Even secondary characters are shown to have complex emotions and well written back stories. The story is rounded to include these glimpses of their complexity and does a good job at making the characters feel real.
Unfortunately, the story is too disjointed to effectively hold my attention and get me to feel for the characters struggles. It's one thing to have well written characters, but that's not enough. The story still has to connect, and with 3 POV's shifting constantly, with a 4th thrown in one section, I found it hard to connect with the characters.
The shifting POV's was too frequent and I found that when I was just getting into a section, or started caring about a character the POV/situation would shift and it would break. I feel it would have been better to carry sections and character POV's longer, to establish a better connection to the narrative and to generally zig zag through the story less.
The environments at the beginning of the book were interesting, at least in side the ship was. It was a little weird and different and definitely had a sense of dread. As the book progressed, things were a bit more samey, earth town, woods, etc. But things change a bit towards the end, and that was well done.
The most notable thing, for me, is that this author gets what it is to be a parent. So many books, even really well known and well written books, will have a man struggling to find his wife or girlfriend, and the kid is an after thought. Blake Crouch's Dark Matter has a guy desperately trying to find his wife, with little thought on his son. Dennis E Taylor's Singularity Trap has a guy who is crushed to know he will never hold his wife again. And never seeing his kid again is an afterthought.
This book however, gets it. Arthur wants the love of his life back, but not at the expense of his 2 sons. Reese's main reason to live is to get back to his 4 year old daughter. I'm glad that this author understand what a typical fathers priorities really are.
Voice narration, by Zachary Johnson, is not bad. He has a sense of urgency, when needed and his male voices are different enough to tell one character from the next. He doesn't really have a female voice, so one of the main characters being a woman becomes a bit of an issue. He doesn't do a bad job at her, exactly, just no attempt at a female voice.
Ultimately, this is a pretty OK book. It has some interesting concepts and the author seems to understand being a parent. The characters are well written and there is a lot of attention to back stories. The narrator doesn't even try to do a female voice (for the female lead) was disappointing. However, the main stumbling point is that the constant switching of POV's becomes not only a distraction but also kept me from being invested in the characters or their struggles.
This book has a very interesting premise. An alien ship takes people and crashes in the forest. I won't spoil anything but suffice to say this book combines Alien abduction, time travel and military sci fi. It blends all these genres together and does it well.
The characters are well rounded, with deep back stories. Even secondary characters are shown to have complex emotions and well written back stories. The story is rounded to include these glimpses of their complexity and does a good job at making the characters feel real.
Unfortunately, the story is too disjointed to effectively hold my attention and get me to feel for the characters struggles. It's one thing to have well written characters, but that's not enough. The story still has to connect, and with 3 POV's shifting constantly, with a 4th thrown in one section, I found it hard to connect with the characters.
The shifting POV's was too frequent and I found that when I was just getting into a section, or started caring about a character the POV/situation would shift and it would break. I feel it would have been better to carry sections and character POV's longer, to establish a better connection to the narrative and to generally zig zag through the story less.
The environments at the beginning of the book were interesting, at least in side the ship was. It was a little weird and different and definitely had a sense of dread. As the book progressed, things were a bit more samey, earth town, woods, etc. But things change a bit towards the end, and that was well done.
The most notable thing, for me, is that this author gets what it is to be a parent. So many books, even really well known and well written books, will have a man struggling to find his wife or girlfriend, and the kid is an after thought. Blake Crouch's Dark Matter has a guy desperately trying to find his wife, with little thought on his son. Dennis E Taylor's Singularity Trap has a guy who is crushed to know he will never hold his wife again. And never seeing his kid again is an afterthought.
This book however, gets it. Arthur wants the love of his life back, but not at the expense of his 2 sons. Reese's main reason to live is to get back to his 4 year old daughter. I'm glad that this author understand what a typical fathers priorities really are.
Voice narration, by Zachary Johnson, is not bad. He has a sense of urgency, when needed and his male voices are different enough to tell one character from the next. He doesn't really have a female voice, so one of the main characters being a woman becomes a bit of an issue. He doesn't do a bad job at her, exactly, just no attempt at a female voice.
Ultimately, this is a pretty OK book. It has some interesting concepts and the author seems to understand being a parent. The characters are well written and there is a lot of attention to back stories. The narrator doesn't even try to do a female voice (for the female lead) was disappointing. However, the main stumbling point is that the constant switching of POV's becomes not only a distraction but also kept me from being invested in the characters or their struggles.
August 31, 2021
Wow! The Ship is a twisty time travel alien ride! I enjoyed the tale and was surprised by the ending. I got totally attached to our main hero, Casey. She showed a lot of stamina and independence. The set up was really good too as I love a good wrecked ship escape story. In this case, it was an alien spaceship. Casey and three others (Earl, Donovan, & Bill) wake up totally confused on this wrecked ship. Let the Survival Games begin!
Meanwhile, there’s a lot going on in this small town of Blackwood, Oregon. Casey’s boyfriend (Arnold) somehow just knows that she’s near, even though she disappeared so many years ago. He and his adult son Todd try to travel up the mountain to check it out but they run into a gathering military force (which is just as confused as everyone else about what this alien mess is). Reese (in charge of this military operation for the moment) does his best to keep his crew alive but there’s an alien force that no one is expecting.
During the middle part of the story, I did get a little confused by the jumps in time but then our heroes inside the ship realize that the ship is trying to escape and using their time travel ability to kind of cushion their (now) very slow crash… or some such thing. See, I’m still not clear on all of it but I did enjoy feeling like an active participant in the confusion.
There’s very few female characters in this book and I would have liked more representation all around. As the ship seemed to be interested in humans through the ages, more diversity would have added to the realism of the tale. That said, we do have Casey Stevens representing the ladies and she kicks butt!
The last quarter of the book was my favorite. By this point, Casey and I have figured out what is going on with the time travel and this alien ship. Yet Casey now has to make some very tough choices and I honestly didn’t know how things would ultimately fall out until I got to the very end. I was sitting on the edge of my seat, wanting justice for humanity but also wanting a happy ending for Casey. Very tense and satisfying! 4/5 stars.
The Narration: Zachary Johnson is also a joy to listen to and I enjoyed him here too. Even though the main character, Casey, is female, nearly all of the supporting cast is male, so Johnson was a good fit for this story. He had a believable voice for Casey (and the 3 other ladies who got a handful of lines). His kid voices were also good. He excelled at the creepy alien voice (who sometimes inhabited other humans), especially Casey’s evil dad. The pacing was good and there were no tech issues with the recording. 5/5 stars.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Audiobook Empire. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
Meanwhile, there’s a lot going on in this small town of Blackwood, Oregon. Casey’s boyfriend (Arnold) somehow just knows that she’s near, even though she disappeared so many years ago. He and his adult son Todd try to travel up the mountain to check it out but they run into a gathering military force (which is just as confused as everyone else about what this alien mess is). Reese (in charge of this military operation for the moment) does his best to keep his crew alive but there’s an alien force that no one is expecting.
During the middle part of the story, I did get a little confused by the jumps in time but then our heroes inside the ship realize that the ship is trying to escape and using their time travel ability to kind of cushion their (now) very slow crash… or some such thing. See, I’m still not clear on all of it but I did enjoy feeling like an active participant in the confusion.
There’s very few female characters in this book and I would have liked more representation all around. As the ship seemed to be interested in humans through the ages, more diversity would have added to the realism of the tale. That said, we do have Casey Stevens representing the ladies and she kicks butt!
The last quarter of the book was my favorite. By this point, Casey and I have figured out what is going on with the time travel and this alien ship. Yet Casey now has to make some very tough choices and I honestly didn’t know how things would ultimately fall out until I got to the very end. I was sitting on the edge of my seat, wanting justice for humanity but also wanting a happy ending for Casey. Very tense and satisfying! 4/5 stars.
The Narration: Zachary Johnson is also a joy to listen to and I enjoyed him here too. Even though the main character, Casey, is female, nearly all of the supporting cast is male, so Johnson was a good fit for this story. He had a believable voice for Casey (and the 3 other ladies who got a handful of lines). His kid voices were also good. He excelled at the creepy alien voice (who sometimes inhabited other humans), especially Casey’s evil dad. The pacing was good and there were no tech issues with the recording. 5/5 stars.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Audiobook Empire. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
November 23, 2021
The story of The Ship is a confusing one as it is trying to be a lot of different things all at once. What is good here is the setup and the tone. Ominous and creepy settings stand out in the story. Where those settings fail is in the characters who only just freak out or befall the stereotypical weasley guy who's going to screw over everyone in the end.
The story involves time travel, alien/human hybrid monster zombies, flying saucers, future humanity, and of course "aliens". The confusing aspect is that I didn't see the plot laid down enough once you had storyline plot points revealed to make clear or to clarify over time what was going on. While the atmosphere lends to some ominous build-up, the characters either operate on freakout mode or yelling. For some characters that makes sense but the reason to have many different characters in your story is that you bring in different personality types to explore the world made for them. The conclusion of the story makes it hard to believe that the events leading up to what the antagonist(s) want would have occurred in the early part of the story.
If this were a novella or a shorter story, the repetitive occurrences with some of the main characters could have really been streamlined. As I was reading this I thought the action and characters read more like a screenplay for a movie. I checked the author's other credits and sure enough, he has a background in movies. I could see this story being a DVD direct movie. However, as a book, I didn't enjoy it as much. The very end of the story however offered an interesting twist that I would have liked to have had flushed out more.
Final Grade - D+
The story involves time travel, alien/human hybrid monster zombies, flying saucers, future humanity, and of course "aliens". The confusing aspect is that I didn't see the plot laid down enough once you had storyline plot points revealed to make clear or to clarify over time what was going on. While the atmosphere lends to some ominous build-up, the characters either operate on freakout mode or yelling. For some characters that makes sense but the reason to have many different characters in your story is that you bring in different personality types to explore the world made for them. The conclusion of the story makes it hard to believe that the events leading up to what the antagonist(s) want would have occurred in the early part of the story.
If this were a novella or a shorter story, the repetitive occurrences with some of the main characters could have really been streamlined. As I was reading this I thought the action and characters read more like a screenplay for a movie. I checked the author's other credits and sure enough, he has a background in movies. I could see this story being a DVD direct movie. However, as a book, I didn't enjoy it as much. The very end of the story however offered an interesting twist that I would have liked to have had flushed out more.
Final Grade - D+
September 3, 2021
I was granted complimentary audiobook access to The Ship as part of my participation in a blog tour for this title with Audiobookworm Promotions. Thank you to all involved in affording me this opportunity! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest.
Time travel with aliens? Yes please! This would make for a great sci-fi thriller movie, and the audio performance really works well. Zachary Johnson's narration was so well done. I normally listen to audiobooks at no less than 2x speed and the tour review copies were distributed on a platform that doesn't have playback speed options, but this excellent performance was a joy to listen to despite being forced to essentially listen at half speed compared to what I'm used to. That means there were no unnecessary pauses or drawn-out words and sounds, and I appreciate that.
In terms of the story itself, this is a wild ride with a lot of familiar elements and tropes tossed in a blender and churned into a completely new and fresh adventure. I love all the powerful female character spotlighting and the high-stakes nature of this plot that doesn't let you put the book down (or press pause.)
I will say there were sections, particularly right in the middle, where timeline jumps got a little convoluted, but the end was so perfect I almost forgot about that by the time I was finished.
Time travel with aliens? Yes please! This would make for a great sci-fi thriller movie, and the audio performance really works well. Zachary Johnson's narration was so well done. I normally listen to audiobooks at no less than 2x speed and the tour review copies were distributed on a platform that doesn't have playback speed options, but this excellent performance was a joy to listen to despite being forced to essentially listen at half speed compared to what I'm used to. That means there were no unnecessary pauses or drawn-out words and sounds, and I appreciate that.
In terms of the story itself, this is a wild ride with a lot of familiar elements and tropes tossed in a blender and churned into a completely new and fresh adventure. I love all the powerful female character spotlighting and the high-stakes nature of this plot that doesn't let you put the book down (or press pause.)
I will say there were sections, particularly right in the middle, where timeline jumps got a little convoluted, but the end was so perfect I almost forgot about that by the time I was finished.
June 11, 2021
This is smart science-fiction at its best. It has many of the elements you may have seen before--a mysterious spaceship appears, government agents are dispatched, and at least one "normal" individual seems to have a strange affinity for the craft, triggering a connection with key events from his past (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, anyone?). However, Brode manages to combine these elements in a new an intriguing way while also introducing all sorts of fresh devices and twists of his own. Inspiring equal parts horror and wonder, like all great sci-fi, this novel also prompts readers to ponder humanity's place in the universe. There's no indication that this book is the first in a series, but it easily could be, and I hope he pens a sequel.
November 30, 2022
interesting, but needs more research
I thought the first book was quite good, although Doug needs to do a bit more research one tactics and weapons. This is basic requirements if you are going to talk about anything military, especially in this day in age. Magazines, not clips, night vision goggles are NVGs, or NODs, etc. avoiding these simple mistakes will reduce alienating ( no pun intended) your veteran/military readers. I did find the premise of being totally alone I. The universe a bit glum and far fetched even though this is a Sci-if work of fiction.
Just my two cents though, coming from an Elon Musk, trailer park, simpleton, fan.
I thought the first book was quite good, although Doug needs to do a bit more research one tactics and weapons. This is basic requirements if you are going to talk about anything military, especially in this day in age. Magazines, not clips, night vision goggles are NVGs, or NODs, etc. avoiding these simple mistakes will reduce alienating ( no pun intended) your veteran/military readers. I did find the premise of being totally alone I. The universe a bit glum and far fetched even though this is a Sci-if work of fiction.
Just my two cents though, coming from an Elon Musk, trailer park, simpleton, fan.
August 15, 2022
The Ship is a fascinating extra terrestrial story. This book was a page turner for me and I couldn’t put it down. From the journey through the ship to the surrounding community and government cover ups, there is always something to look forward to. The Ship is a must read!
June 30, 2021
3.5/5. Interesting read. Started off well but then kindof lost its way. I had to labour through the ending to finish it.
July 31, 2021
Fast read
I enjoyed it so much I neglected my sleep. I just didn't want to stop reading. It's a strange twist on alien abductions
I enjoyed it so much I neglected my sleep. I just didn't want to stop reading. It's a strange twist on alien abductions
October 31, 2022
Very good read
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like space opera and Allen abduction and lots of action
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like space opera and Allen abduction and lots of action
January 20, 2023
Confusing ending
I was getting into the story but had trouble with the confusing ending. Timeline stories can do that. I had trouble keeping the characters straight too.
I was getting into the story but had trouble with the confusing ending. Timeline stories can do that. I had trouble keeping the characters straight too.
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