bundy23's review
1.0
DNF. 47%. A confusing mess filled with generic cardboard cut-out characters. Everyone seemed to be lying about what was going on and I had no clue what was real or a desire to find out.
xkay_readsx's review
4.0
3.5⭐
A gripping apocalyptic event thriller!
I'm guessing everyone would remember exactly what they were doing if a nearby star goes KABOOM turning night to day and the sky red.
In Aeon Rising a supernova appeared over the South Pole. A Chinese scientist Dr. Xin noticed it first on her monitor at Amundsen Station- Antarctica.
Max Carver, an Army vet now trucker is asked by his old Army staff sergeant to aid Stillwater, a private military contractor on a rescue mission. He heads to the Amazon forest where Max's childhood friend, Ben is running a hi-tech Colony in the middle of the jungle. But before they arrive, the night sky turns bright as day, and their Black Hawk spun out of control into a freefall.
This was an exciting read! Two suns? I guess I'll take two suns over a giant meteor strike. I wish I understood all the hard science, I didn't but I enjoyed the adventure! At the heart of it all, it's a survival story. To stay alive and to get back to their loved ones. Dr. Xin to her young son, and Max to his NSA subcontractor pregnant wife.
I'm definitely going to get book two when it comes out as the journey continues. Ray Porter did a wonderful job as always with the narration.
Thank you, RB Media/Recorded Books, and Netgalley for this DRC.
A gripping apocalyptic event thriller!
I'm guessing everyone would remember exactly what they were doing if a nearby star goes KABOOM turning night to day and the sky red.
In Aeon Rising a supernova appeared over the South Pole. A Chinese scientist Dr. Xin noticed it first on her monitor at Amundsen Station- Antarctica.
Max Carver, an Army vet now trucker is asked by his old Army staff sergeant to aid Stillwater, a private military contractor on a rescue mission. He heads to the Amazon forest where Max's childhood friend, Ben is running a hi-tech Colony in the middle of the jungle. But before they arrive, the night sky turns bright as day, and their Black Hawk spun out of control into a freefall.
This was an exciting read! Two suns? I guess I'll take two suns over a giant meteor strike. I wish I understood all the hard science, I didn't but I enjoyed the adventure! At the heart of it all, it's a survival story. To stay alive and to get back to their loved ones. Dr. Xin to her young son, and Max to his NSA subcontractor pregnant wife.
I'm definitely going to get book two when it comes out as the journey continues. Ray Porter did a wonderful job as always with the narration.
Thank you, RB Media/Recorded Books, and Netgalley for this DRC.
mylhibug's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
bookanonjeff's review
5.0
Action Packed Series Starter. This is one hell of an action packed series starter for Mather, and one that despite a few similar general ideas (such as crippled communications due to space activity) with his CyberStorm series never gets quite as dark as that one can. Indeed, the darkest thing here is unfortunately all too common, but to reveal it specifically would be a spoiler (though even here, Mather manages to put a scifi twist to it in furtherance of his ultimate series objectives). The different types of action here are reminiscent of everything from nearly-every-Amazon-based-action-movie-you've-ever-seen such as Predator or Anaconda, just to name a couple, to more urban based ala Daniel Pyne's Sentro Security or a Mission Impossible / Jason Bourne type. Throw in some elements similar to Deep Impact, as well as a few other elements of a few other popular tales that would be a touch spoilery to add here, and you've truly got a promising start to a potentially long series. This book is mostly set-up without ever truly *feeling* like it is mostly set-up - the action is tightly paced, as is the exposition, there is just *so much here* that by the end it is quite clear that this series is intended as a trilogy at minimum. Very much recommended.
danlewisfw's review
3.0
This one is more of a three and a half, its pretty decent just not quite four stars worthy. This book has me wanting to lower the star rating of the last book I read because it is not as good as this was. But other books I have given four stars to were better. So I am going to declare it 3 1/2 stars. I wish we could do that here!
This is a disaster/alien invasion book and while the story was compelling and the end was pretty good the knowledge of what is going on is all over the place. You get info from one group of characters saying its one thing and info from another group saying its another, one group will tell someone its something then immediately in private declare that its not that but something else all together.
There is some mystery surrounding an AI and at least by the end of the book it seems to be friendly but there are people who think it may be dangerous. This definitely feels like the first section of a longer book that they have split into three sections. This was the first and then it sort of just ends. It does not resolve much of anything and I hate that. I do accept that its the reality of publishing right not. Do not sell a thousand page self contained novel, split it into three 350 page books so we get to charge the customer three times. Just sell it for more and give me the whole story!
This is a disaster/alien invasion book and while the story was compelling and the end was pretty good the knowledge of what is going on is all over the place. You get info from one group of characters saying its one thing and info from another group saying its another, one group will tell someone its something then immediately in private declare that its not that but something else all together.
There is some mystery surrounding an AI and at least by the end of the book it seems to be friendly but there are people who think it may be dangerous. This definitely feels like the first section of a longer book that they have split into three sections. This was the first and then it sort of just ends. It does not resolve much of anything and I hate that. I do accept that its the reality of publishing right not. Do not sell a thousand page self contained novel, split it into three 350 page books so we get to charge the customer three times. Just sell it for more and give me the whole story!
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