Immortal Dawn

by Bradly Byykkonen

Vinson Gant, unassuming smuggler and purveyor of spices, enjoyed a comfortable middle-class life until the day he agreed to run a simple errand for an admiring customer and quickly found himself thrust to center stage in a galactic drama that would determine humanity's fate in a universe far more mysterious, and dangerous, than he had ever imagined.

Qassi Ferenyu, teenage daughter of a restaurateur with ties to organized crime, was a mild-mannered, precocious girl who simply wanted to spend the summer with her grandmother. After a chance encounter with hostile alien agents, she inadvertently finds herself the recipient of an otherworldly gift, one that proves to be humanity’s only hope in escaping the judgment of a merciless alien race bent on purging the galaxy of all corruption.

Genres: Science Fiction

572 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2015

Reviews

[J.D. Kaplan · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you come across a longer book, one of two things happens. You either like the book and are glad it's long, or you don't and you wrestle with putting it down for good. This is one of the former—I didn't want to put it down. It is meaty and has a lot of depth to it. I found myself enjoying all the characters and the story itself was good as well. In a few places I found some of the philosophical, existential waxing to be a bit heavy handed but it didn't get in the way of enjoying the story. By the time I was halfway through the book I was already trying to guess how it would end and when the dust settled the author tied things up really nicely.

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book because Amazon had a five star rating. This was one of those books that had a wonderful storyline that eventually tried too hard. Though I enjoyed the first half of the book I found myself scanning the second half with the thought, "Get on with it, already!" I don't know if I'd recommend it, simply because it is much longer than it really needed to be. The writing was excellent, though the characterization could have been better. I honestly enjoy reading long books, as anyone who looks at my reading list can see. But this one wasn't rich enough to hold my attention.