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Out of the Ashes by L.A. Casey
1.0
Out of ashes is a book that’s book that I find offensive and yet amusing at the same time. At times, I find myself laughing not because something was funny but because it was ridiculous.
This book belongs to the genre of science fiction but where the science in it is, I could not find at all. It is just a romance between an alien and a human not to mention that the aliens in the story look a lot like humans so there goes the controversial factor for me.
Now if we remove the romance from the book, there’s literary nothing else that happens, just nothing. When I pick a book of this genre, I expect many things to take place but in this book, there’s no action, no suspense, no vents, no conflict. There are not even bad guys to spice the story a little bit, no conflict, nothing that just shake the pace of the story even for a bit.
So to summarize this book I’ll say, a human meets an alien, they fight they disagree they get mated or whatever they fall in love they fight again, she decide to run away with the help of his brother and then she comes back, she asks for space she discovers she’s pregnant they get back together, and that’s all.
Now let’s talk about the romance. It’s so absurd and forced and ridiculous and I know that it’s fate for them to love each other but that excuse does not justify the lack of chemistry and intensity of the love story. I did not click with the romance which means I did not click with the book.
Now me not liking the book does not necessary mean I did not found any redeeming thing about it. What I liked is the world building. The writer knows how to create an atmosphere that’s both threatening and captivating despite the tragic quality of it but it is well build and well represented in the book.
I strongly believe the book would’ve been better if the story took place on earth just before the imploding of the planet. The stakes would’ve been higher with more tension and more risks to take. But unfortunately the story took place in the ship and later in another planet where nothing dangerous or suspenseful happens. Shame the story turned out this way because it has so potential.
Now to be fair, the first pages of the book were really good but the moment she wakes up in the Maji ship, the book lost its magic and never recovered.
This book belongs to the genre of science fiction but where the science in it is, I could not find at all. It is just a romance between an alien and a human not to mention that the aliens in the story look a lot like humans so there goes the controversial factor for me.
Now if we remove the romance from the book, there’s literary nothing else that happens, just nothing. When I pick a book of this genre, I expect many things to take place but in this book, there’s no action, no suspense, no vents, no conflict. There are not even bad guys to spice the story a little bit, no conflict, nothing that just shake the pace of the story even for a bit.
So to summarize this book I’ll say, a human meets an alien, they fight they disagree they get mated or whatever they fall in love they fight again, she decide to run away with the help of his brother and then she comes back, she asks for space she discovers she’s pregnant they get back together, and that’s all.
Now let’s talk about the romance. It’s so absurd and forced and ridiculous and I know that it’s fate for them to love each other but that excuse does not justify the lack of chemistry and intensity of the love story. I did not click with the romance which means I did not click with the book.
Now me not liking the book does not necessary mean I did not found any redeeming thing about it. What I liked is the world building. The writer knows how to create an atmosphere that’s both threatening and captivating despite the tragic quality of it but it is well build and well represented in the book.
I strongly believe the book would’ve been better if the story took place on earth just before the imploding of the planet. The stakes would’ve been higher with more tension and more risks to take. But unfortunately the story took place in the ship and later in another planet where nothing dangerous or suspenseful happens. Shame the story turned out this way because it has so potential.
Now to be fair, the first pages of the book were really good but the moment she wakes up in the Maji ship, the book lost its magic and never recovered.