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Zachary Brown

Autor de The Darkside War

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Series

Obras de Zachary Brown

The Darkside War (2015) 19 copias
The Icarus Corps (2017) 18 copias
Titan's Fall (2016) 6 copias
Jupiter Rising (2017) 5 copias

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Conocimiento común

Biografía breve
Zachary Brown is pseudonym. Brown is a New York Times bestselling author as well as a Nebula and World Fantasy Award finalist.

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Title: The Darkside War
Series: Icarus Corps #1
Author: Zachary Brown
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: YA SF
Pages: 241
Format: Digital Edition

Synopsis:


The aliens have conquered us. They destroyed Washington, DC, made examples of other capitals of the world and now occupy Earth. And they are the good aliens.

Devlin's parents are the leaders of the Protest Movement. After millions died in violent protest, it was thought that only non-violent protesting was the way to go. Unfortunately for humanity, “protesting” is a 4 letter word for the aliens. Devlin is caught in a sweep and unless he joins the aliens new hybrid armed forces, his parents will be executed on world wide television.

Devlin goes to military academy on the darkside of the moon. The bad aliens make a sneak attack and it is up to the recruits to get a message to Earth to warn them. They succeed but find out that there are what appear to be humans working for the bad aliens and that the bad aliens have blockaded Earth's system and we're on our own.

The book ends with Humanity swinging into a full time war footing alongside the good aliens instead of under their boot.

My Thoughts:

This was everything I was afraid Red Rising was going to be. (RR turned into a good, fun book thankfully). Imagine that the Millennials now run the world and aliens invade.

I just kept shaking my head in disgust at what was being written. This was deliberately Young Adult (but with a boatload of profanity) in tone but even still, the whole mindset of the characters were so “today” that it hurt. I was thinking, Robert Heinlein wrote a lot of juvenile books with young protaganists but they were still competent human beings. These kids in this book? Bunch of special snowflakes. I mean, the main character punches a girl while wearing power armor because she steps between him and another guy who hate each other. I don't care what anyone says, unless your life is in danger, you don't hit women, period. A man is so much physically stronger and as such needs to keep himself under control. The profanity level is also another indicator of just how out of control these characters are. If you as an author are going to write simplified SF, then that type of language has no place in it. These weren't military recruits swearing because that was the mythos but because they were selfish, stupid kids who couldn't control themselves for 1 minute.

Then the whole “Peaceful Protest” thing. This assumes that the people/aliens you are protesting against actually care about what you think. Once again, it is a completely modern YA idea that everybody cares about ME because I'm so special, blah, blah, blah. I realize that Earth was completely bent over by the aliens and that millions died in the occupation, but my goodness, where is the Underground military? You'd think they'd have their young people infiltrate the alien/human army and learn about the aliens and their weaponry, etc. But nooooooooo.

The final issue I had was how much Devlin simply “changes”. He's a spoiled kid at the beginning and now is some sort of leader in the new army at the end. He goes through a LOT during the bad aliens attack and in warning the Earth has chances to really grow up, but it wasn't written in such a way that I believed he did grow up.

The idea for this book is great. Even when I was done reading, I was really tempted to keep on going with the series. ( Reading Over The Shoulder reviewed this last year but never reviewed the later books. Considering they haven't posted since September, I'm also wondering if they're just done with blogging.) After writing the above though, I realized this is a book that simply contains too many things that rub me the wrong way.

Not recommended and I won't be reading any more by “Zachary Brown”, whoever that cowardly piece of excrement is. If you're going to use a fake name, don't bloody advertise that you're using a fake name and that you're actually a really good writer with awards under your belt. Especially if you're going to write such a sub-par piece of simplified puff.

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Denunciada
BookstoogeLT | otra reseña | Nov 21, 2018 |
This book had the basics of a good story but it felt like the author did not take advantage of this in actually telling the story. It felt rushed and almost incomplete in this...

2.5 stars for a story that could have been good.
 
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ConalO | otra reseña | Apr 23, 2018 |

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Miembros
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#325,720
Valoración
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