Gillian Andrews

Guardians of the Galaxy sorta

This books is being marketed to a YA so perhaps we are not supposed to be too concerned with logical and practical continuity and if so, this book is fine. It's basically a reworked Guardians of the Galaxy story in which a group of unrelated species, under the lead of a human from the outlying colonies. This is the first book in the series and it is about how they come together, a kind of slapdash jumping from frying pan into fire over and over.

We get some back story on each of the cast of characters and a good idea of their personalities and the role they will play in the series.

The story itself is too unlikely – among other things it's amazing how quickly the bad guys can steal, reverse engineer, replicate, and deploy a secret technology, and later, how not frightened they are by the idea that a tech they have built might destroy the universe.

Anyway, it's a quick read that's fine for kids.

I received a review copy of "Termination Shock: Interstellar Enforcement Agency, Book One" by Gillian Andrews from the author through NetGalley.com.… (plus d'informations)

Downloaded from http://www.podiobooks.com/title/valhai and listened to on my iPhone.

I enjoy audiobooks while driving and this was a good time filler. Ms. Andrews has come up with an interesting 'coming of age' - 'first encounter' story and I enjoyed listening to it. The audio was well edited and she was a pleasure to listen to. The story definitely has a feel of 'Young Adult' to it and should be appropriate to most age levels. There's much worse on evening television.

I seemed to find some technical nitpicks during my listening that gave me a minor distraction. As I was driving, I didn't get notes made on most of them.

[SPOILER ALERT]

Arcan at one point expresses tremendous remorse over the events that took place under the surface of the lake; those events seemed to be under control of the Sellites. Either Arcan was responsible and felt guilty, or the Sellites were responsible and it was out of the control of Arcan; he was just an unwitting dupe.

I don't see the Sellites leaving the donors under the lake, in ever increasing numbers of bubbles. This has been going on for some time, and, if not at least a waste of resources, surely there would be a finite limit to the number of bubbles in the lake.

There was another having to do with the tubes and life support delivery system after Arcan recovered, that I just can't dredge up.

[END OF SPOILER]

All in all, a good listen and I gave it a 3.5 (a 4 would be a book I want to listen to again and a 5 I could listen too multiple times.)… (plus d'informations)