Jubilee Year A Novel The Erelong Trilogy Book 1 eBook Gerard O'Neill
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Storm is able to remember everything, and he hates it. Some memories are best forgotten.
His girlfriend's father, an astronomer, has asked him to deliver a coded message far too frightening to be written down. They don't know a powerful few will do anything to keep the world from finding out how bad things are going to get.
Death squads, the giant beneath Parliament House, a nemesis from outer space, and even the forthcoming apocalypse... are all supposed to be a secret.
Yet, signs of trouble on the way are everywhere. Brilliant green meteors streak over the outback. The freakish weather grows more extreme. World war is on the horizon.
Once the huge and mysterious Martyn tells him the awful truth, Storm is on the run in a race against time to protect all that's dearest to him. But, the price of survival is one an 18-year-old farm boy could never imagine.
Reviewers say
"the writing style is often brilliant" - Mike Dixon, official review for Readers' Favorite Preview... "plenty of gritty action throughout" - Andy Lloyd, author of Ezekiel One... "a character-driven story that is a roller coaster from beginning to end" - Brian's Book Blog... "I read it in one day" - Ronovan Writes, official review for Lit World Interviews.
Read the sequel. May Day (Erelong Trilogy Book II) is out now.
Jubilee Year A Novel The Erelong Trilogy Book 1 eBook Gerard O'Neill
Very interesting book, but also a little difficult to understand. The setting is Australia and I'm not very familiar with that country or their vernacular. The author writes as though the reader should understand the Australian outback and to some extent, their military. Still the storyline is very chilling.The Solar System as we know it, is going to be changing significantly very shortly. It has become impossible for "them" to hide the coming changes as they have done in the past. Already people are noticing subtle changes in the weather, the sky and even one, the behavior of animals. One of our main characters, Dr. Michael Boulos, a top notch astronomer, believes he knows what is going to happen, and now "they" are trying to kill him! We don't ever find out who "them" and "they" really are.
In one part of this book, for some reason, the Australian government is rounding up everyone and putting them in camps. In fact, every government is doing the same thing and it makes no sense. It doesn't make sense in the book either. What happens will happen whether all the people are rounded up and placed under government "control" or not. The fact is, no government on Earth or anything else can prevent what's about to happen, and "they" know it! Read the book to see if you agree.
Lastly, I hate to say that this book has a great deal of editorial goofs. There are missing words, incomplete sentences, and bad continuity through the book. A much better editing job needs to be done on the next volume, please. These errors really detract from reading the otherwise good story.
I will read the next installment just to see if what I thing happens, does happen.
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Jubilee Year A Novel The Erelong Trilogy Book 1 eBook Gerard O'Neill Reviews
18 years old Storm just wants to figure out what to do with his life while dating 22 years old Penny. Penny’s father is director of one of the most famous observatories in the world and thus in a position to see what’s happening in the solar system we live in. That knowledge throws Storm into an adventure he never expects as he gets caught up in protests, paramilitary groups, and a super-secret agent of the Australian government.
The relationships in the book are not bad. Although the Storm and Penny dynamic leaves something to be desired at times. The other connections in the book are pretty good with the exception of how a character named Darren turns out. I was a bit surprised about him and that seemed a little forced to me. I could see sort of why it was thrown in but maybe it could have been handled better, maybe not so rushed.
I don’t know science of the nature discussed in the book, but I don’t think you need to. It is all explained well and made you believe what is being stated. That’s what counts.
The main issues I had with the book were the head hopping within scenes where I couldn’t tell who was talking or thinking. And there are some proofreading issues that are evident. These two factors made reading not as enjoyable as it could have been.
Overall it was a good story idea, a quick read that kept you turning the pages to see what would happen next.
I gave Jubilee Year-A Novel 3 out of 5 stars instead of a 4 because of the head hopping. It really took away from the flow of reading. The story itself is good and even being over 400 pages I read it in one day. So I do recommend the book for those who like the apocalyptic type of genre.
I've read a lot of apocalyptic books. Far too many are young adult books, as is this one. However, while this has the fairly straightforward plotting, writing, and character development common to young adult works, it is extremely light on angst, written as young adult more from an accessibility standpoint than from a typical young adult viewpoint. As such, it is suitable for adult readers as well, if one likes the genre. For young adults, they need to be mid-teens at least and comfortable with a little profanity, deadly but not gratuitous violence, and some non-explicit sex. For all readers, the emotional subcontext is not explicitly written; that can be good if one can project emotions from actions and context, or bad if one likes every emotion spelled out. Personally I liked it; if I cannot understand the characters' emotional states from actions and context, then the writing needs to be clearer. This style also avoids the common mistake of describing emotions and then writing actions the reader finds inconsistent.
As with science fiction, the setting is as much a character as is the protagonist. In Jubilee Year, the catastrophe is pretty unique, especially over the last few decades. The reader will need serious suspension of disbelief for the cover-up and at least some for the governments' reactions, but enough explanation is given to make that suspension viable, since it is needed as a plot device. (A nice orderly catastrophe with characters well prepared over decades wouldn't make a very good book). There is also a harder science fiction subplot laid to be explored in subsequent books as well as another subplot which may be developed in subsequent books or may exist only as a result of the government's actions. Descriptions of the apocalypse are vivid, consistent and well drawn, and characters' subsequent actions logical given their situations and personalities.
All in all the characters are sparsely but reasonably drawn, their actions reasonable in line with their personalities. We are left guessing at times as to motivation, but never abandoned, and one is left with the feeling that the young characters in particular really are being defined as we read. That is nice. There are enough of them for variety and yet not so many that the reader will be tempted to make a chart.
As has been mentioned, there are some editing errors typical of a self-published book, but in my copy they were minor and never jarred me out of the story. At most, I might have to re-read a sentence to be back on track. The same applies to Australian slang; although I am utterly unfamiliar with it, it was all clear in context, so to me the slang is a plus adding a greater sense of place. The book itself is a quick read even though it's fairly large, probably because the writing is straightforward.
The plot is as much setting the scene for future volumes as a self-contained volume. This is of course a feature of self-published books, but also a necessary component of apocalyptic fiction, where the author must define the characters sufficiently to make the reader care about them, set up and execute the apocalypse, and then define the revised world setting as well as detail the characters' struggles in that world. This virtually requires a series even for the best author. This book carries the characters into but not through the apocalypse, so there are probably at least a couple more volumes. I got this book for free, but I am buying the next to see where the author takes his world and his characters.
Pure Junk -- Read 10% and discarded it.
Writing was very poor
I was only able to 20% through the book when I gave up. Just can't finish it, I was so bored. So many words and so little content.
Very interesting book, but also a little difficult to understand. The setting is Australia and I'm not very familiar with that country or their vernacular. The author writes as though the reader should understand the Australian outback and to some extent, their military. Still the storyline is very chilling.
The Solar System as we know it, is going to be changing significantly very shortly. It has become impossible for "them" to hide the coming changes as they have done in the past. Already people are noticing subtle changes in the weather, the sky and even one, the behavior of animals. One of our main characters, Dr. Michael Boulos, a top notch astronomer, believes he knows what is going to happen, and now "they" are trying to kill him! We don't ever find out who "them" and "they" really are.
In one part of this book, for some reason, the Australian government is rounding up everyone and putting them in camps. In fact, every government is doing the same thing and it makes no sense. It doesn't make sense in the book either. What happens will happen whether all the people are rounded up and placed under government "control" or not. The fact is, no government on Earth or anything else can prevent what's about to happen, and "they" know it! Read the book to see if you agree.
Lastly, I hate to say that this book has a great deal of editorial goofs. There are missing words, incomplete sentences, and bad continuity through the book. A much better editing job needs to be done on the next volume, please. These errors really detract from reading the otherwise good story.
I will read the next installment just to see if what I thing happens, does happen.
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