Avail Yourself The Eons-Lost Orphan (The Space Orphan Book 1) Fashioned By Laer Carroll Displayed As Copy

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While I think this will be a good series, some of the explanations could be shorter, WE, the readers, are not all scientists and I don't have the background to know if all the inventions are plausible, The story is complex enough to keep you interested, but not so much to make you lose yourself, I don't think the Academy is quite as democratic as it is portrayed, but the Air Force does do things a bit different than the rest of the military.
A good read for those more into SCIENCE fiction that space operas and fantasy, Carroll, Laer. The EonsLost Orphan. Space Orphan No Kindle,.
So, yes, bad title, Do we really need eons In the series title, how about something less banal than space, The rest of the book is a bit better, We have a routine alien supergirl YAF, And, yes, such things are now routine, An eonsold spacecraft uses its last gasp to deposit a nakedyearold alien girl with temporary amnesia in an urban park, Soon discovered to be prodigy, she is adopted by a physics professor and his wife who respect her intellect and nurture her gradual assimilation into human culture.
With the help of an implanted or inbred artificial intelligence, she begins to remember that she has a mission to save humanity from an alien menace, Fifth Element, anyone Even so, the girl is likeable, and I was mildly entertained,stars. I enjoyed the start of the book as we get to know Jane, but I was beginning to get worried that the author was going a bit too far over the top.

I discovered that to enjoy this book I had to just let some things wash over me and accept that some aspects of the story are nonsensical.

Overall this was an interesting read and I was happy to give three,
Well, this book was like reading a Ell Donsai book on steroids, the heroine is almost a Mary Sue but is a "realist", The author is scheming something with the first book, you can see him building something with what Jane give to the world,

It is really worth the read! All Too Easy

I enjoyed reading this book because we all dream of being something special and the main character is way beyond ordinary.
And she's easy to like and to identify with, Often, however, things were just too easy for her link with my being able to identify was broken, Kind of like when a singer becomes a national idol, The description of life at the Air Force Academy is convincing enough to me to believe Carroll has personal experience, A great change from normal SciFi, Still, when things are THAT easy there is no challenge, and challenge is what makes the human experience, Everything is too easy for Jane, but for some reason it held my interest enough to finish it, Not sure whether Ill bother reading the sequel when it is available, and I dont plan to ever reread this book, Okay

Very stilted, Multiple mistakes. College freshmen and sophomores just out of high school aren't old enough for alcohol, Jets utilize outside air, therefore there's no such thing as a "space jet", That's a rocket engine. I realize what's described doesn't really require fuel but still, . The Air Force demonstration squadron is the Thunderbirds and should have been described as such, Author has some weird hangups, but its a good read in spite of them

I really have to wonder if the author has a pee fetish, because the number of times peeing is mentioned crosses over the borderline of borderline creepy.


That said, its a very slow burn, with absolutely no conflicts or action “onscreen”, as it were, until the very last pages of the book.
Ill give it a pass on that because I hope its all meant as a setup for a much fasterpaced second entry in the series,

I will say this though the MC, Jane Kuznetsov, isnt just a Mary Sue, She is who Mary Sue wants to be when she grows up, It reminds me a lot of the El Donsaii series, Lots of similarities in plot but I will be interested to see where the author goes with this particular series, The writing is average and it could do with a professional editor going over it however the actual story is very readable and enjoyable, Its simple and that is what makes it a fun afternoon read, There is no thinking involved and the character is likeable, All up I would recommend it for a rainy Sunday afternoon,

The cover picture is awful though, Nice

Pilot genius dancer composer heroine yes, Human not exactly. Hard work and supportive foster parents help turn a teenage blank slate into charismatic inventor of superbattery and antigravity devices, Eli Dunsaii fans will like, I

read books, but I'm finding I don't have time to review every single book I read, so this is about the series,

This story is, in many ways, a retelling of the Superman story, except for the protag being female, most if not all of her superhuman abilities having an origin in higher technology, and not able to move the moon out of its orbit or turn back time.
. . at least by the end of Book, It is written in a "cozy" style of SF I didn't see this term used anywhere in the description, but it feels like this style of story, with "Mary Sue" elements, as with all the works by this author I've read to date.


I like the author's view of science and speculation on science, and it was interesting to watch where he went with his guesses as to where all of development would most likely end up.
He provides a somewhat different approach to what a Galaxywide society might look like, with all the various civilizations and species having reached, more or less, the epitome of technology, and how they would deal with a species of upandcoming Earthlings, and how much of their own star system they actually own and have rights to.


I was disappointed that the protag never really faced a challenge,

Even where she had to interact with primitive Earth humanswho are talented at being perverse in all kinds of ways and tend to add chaos to each other's plans and goals, whether they want to or nother worst opposition, people or techwise, was hardly a bump in her path.
Not just that she is smarter, faster, and stronger than anyone else, but people just tend to bend in the direction she wants them to, treat her extremely well, and let her get away with a number of behaviors that would land anyone else in deep doodoo.
The few times she has to actually fight anyone over anything are just blips she breezes through, If this person were real, she'd be damned scary, and I think I would be moving to a desolate area where no one else had any reason to be, just so I didn't cross her path.
. . except that I would, no doubt, be brainwashed, just like everyone else in her life,

I kept expecting some alien to show up with similar augmentation or deeper designs or something, or humans out of her normal sphere of influence to create dastardly plans to do away with her, but that never showed up.
I waited for human enemiesnot part of the worldwide Jane Fan Clubto kidnap someone she cared about, so she could figure out who did it and how to rescue her loved one.
. . with all her powers and perception, this might have been a challenge, Nope, nothing happened. She didn't even have to deal with her movie producer boyfriendwho had demonstrated a history of sleeping with every floozy under the sun prior to the protag's relationship with himsleeping with even ONE other woman while she was gone for extended periods of time.
The novels don't mention it, but I'm betting she subconsciously brainwashed him into monogamy, with an ability she wasn't aware of yet,

In any case, I would think her life would be extremely boring TO HER, except that she's probably designed to not ever be bored,

I would have liked to have found out, during the course of the story, that she was designed to be a monstrous spacebattleshipinthesizeofaperson, from a civilization that threatened to atrociously conquer the rest of the galaxy, and that she managed to escape destruction at the hands of the rest of the galaxy's species, all working together to end the threat, only for them to find out that There's Still ONE Left That We Have To Destroy! Now THAT would be a challenge!.
. . Didn't happen, but it would have been cool,

I would like to thank the author for not giving in to his compulsion to use camelback notation NewYorkCity for most of his proper nouns in these stories it was present for a few, but not many.
Not sure what the point of that was, but it was moderately irritating in other novels, and I hope his proofreader/editor smacked him with a rolledup newspaper over it.
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Overall, these were not bad novels, but I found myself often waiting for climactic events that never really occurred,
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