What if aliens are living among us?
Ambra Dawn is only seventeen, but she is one very special young lady, and her mother isn’t the only one who realizes this. So does an alien race.
A race of cruel aliens wants her for their own purposes. Ambra is taken by force from her own home and thrown into a world she knows nothing about. Her powers are able to develop and her tumor allowed to grow. As a result, she loses her sight. She is blind and horribly deformed, but she has gained another type of sight that allows her to see so much more than she did with her eyes.
Taken to outer space by the Dram, she is subjected to torture beyond what you could imagine. She loses hope and see no way out. When close to death, she is rescued by the Xix, a friendly alien race who wants to nurse her back to health. But there is a reason they want her healthy.
As Ambra travels through space and time, she finds that her abilities as a Reader far surpass those of any other. Her eyes are opened to things she never suspected. Things she never imagined.
She realizes that it is up to her to save everyone. The fate of many worlds is now in her hands, or more accurately, in her brain.
I am not a huge fan of science fiction, but the story and the way this author wrote it kept my attention. This story, full of twists and turns, is told from Ambra’s point of view. The alien races and their ways are described so well that it is easy to picture them as you read. Actually, they are described so well that I grew to hate one of them and love the other. I still want to love them from a distance though.
I was sent this book in exchange for an honest review. I look forward to reading more of Ambra’s adventures in Writer and Maker, the last two books of this trilogy. I’m curious to see if she is able to defeat the Dram and stop their cruel ways, thereby truly becoming the savior of the worlds.
Amazon Links:
Reader (Daughter of Time, Book 1)
Daughter of Time Trilogy: Reader, Writer, Maker
Favorite Sentences:
But the first time I realized I was a freak was when my dog died.
Believe me, when you have seen your own birth, watched your mother scream in agony as she pushed you into the world like some deformed lump of lasagna, it changes you.
Skin, hair, blood, saliva, and mucus samples were torn from our bodies, devices run over different parts of our anatomy, and all the while we lay helpless and terrified as these enormous insects appeared ready to dissect us on the spot.
And then, like the most insane roller coaster ride you could ever imagine, we hurtled through one space-time wormhole after another, darting through countless dimensions in directions that were impossible, perpendicular to everything, that could not exist in the human mind.
It was like the sledgehammer striking the surface of the dam over and over, until the small cracks became fissures, trickling water, and then, with one fateful blow, the concrete shattered, and the water gushed forth with terrible force.
New Words Learned:
causal – or, relating to, or acting as a cause
diffuse – I did not realize that this word could also be used as an adjective. As an adjective, it means spread out over a large area or not concentrated.
execrable – extremely bad or unpleasant
graviton – hypothetical quantum of gravitational energy, regarded as a particle
hegemony – a leadership of dominance, esp. by one country or social group over others
homunculus – very small human or humanoid
limbic – marginal
paradox – a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory
parsec – a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.23 light years.
prescience – the knowledge of events before they take place
recursive – characterized by recurrence or repetition
vasculature – the vascular system of a part of the body and its arrangement
About the Author:
Erec Stebbins is a biomedical researcher who writes political and international thrillers, science fiction, narrated storybooks, and more.
Author Website: http://www.erecstebbins.com/
Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5990247.Erec_Stebbins
