Here's the next review to make up for the time I was away:
Four-star Review of Earth Alone (Earthrise Book 1) by Daniel
Arenson
This could have been another space opera about how humankind
overcomes deadly aliens, but instead it’s about the training of reluctant
recruits, all just out of high school, including Marco Emery. He dreams of
writing a novel and becoming a librarian like his father and is called Poet by Addy,
his best friend from home (Canada). I can’t put my finger on what kept me
reading but now that I’m finished, I’ve already bought the sequel. This is a
long series, so I expect the fight will last a long time against the aliens,
called Scum for short since the name given them is so long. Going through basic
training exercises with Marco and the other recruits and watching them become a
cohesive group was more interesting than Marco pining of the girlfriend who
dumped him to become an officer, or his budding romance with Leilani. There’s a
long battle with the Scum for diehard fans of those things, but it’s the human
aspects of this story that made it for me.
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