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Beyond Moondust Trilogy #2
Equinox
The Sequel to From The Sky.
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Author C. Clarke. From the Sky Saga Continues! The day after the winter solstice, Samantha Hunter is found naked and bleeding in a remote cabin in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. As Sam works to understand what's happened to her, she is whisked into the Underground--a secret community of scientists, civilians, and aliens that are connected to her story and to the alien boy she's in love with--Lucien. This is where the fight begins, and Sam must decide what price she's willing to pay for life and love. "Equinox gives the reader a totally different way of thinking about extraterrestrials. Anyone with interest in the possibility of life outside this planet--and for those who love a great romance--this book for you. It is exceptionally written and will leave you wanting more!" --Kelly Fait Goodreads "American teenagers have to grow up fast because dark forces are out to get them--J.E. Nicassio gives us a fast-paced and exciting tale full of car chases, close calls, and the angst of star-crossed love. Teens and even older readers will love From the Sky." --Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Author C. Clarke. From the Sky Saga Continues! The day after the winter solstice, Samantha Hunter is found naked and bleeding in a remote cabin in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. As Sam works to understand what's happened to her, she is whisked into the Underground--a secret community of scientists, civilians, and aliens that are connected to her story and to the alien boy she's in love with--Lucien. This is where the fight begins, and Sam must decide what price she's willing to pay for life and love. "Equinox gives the reader a totally different way of thinking about extraterrestrials. Anyone with interest in the possibility of life outside this planet--and for those who love a great romance--this book for you. It is exceptionally written and will leave you wanting more!" --Kelly Fait Goodreads "American teenagers have to grow up fast because dark forces are out to get them--J.E. Nicassio gives us a fast-paced and exciting tale full of car chases, close calls, and the angst of star-crossed love. Teens and even older readers will love From the Sky." --Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
326 pages, Paperback
Published January 2, 2018
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July 31, 2018
I really wanted to like this book, but it is worse than the first one.
The first book in the series started off okay, but then got bogged down in the hopeless romance between Lucien and Sam—the instant attraction, can’t live without the other type—but it managed to keep a good pace. This one, however, is excruciatingly slow. Sam wakes up, alone and naked. Everyone, including her father, thinks that she has been abused by Lucien, and despite what she tells them, no one believes her. Eventually, she falls into a deep depression and decides to self-medicate by purchasing drugs on the internet. She gets caught, and her father takes her to a rehab center, of sorts, for counseling. Sam complains the entire way, insisting that she is fine and doesn’t need help, remaining oblivious to her self-destructive ways.
The first half of the book is just Sam complaining about Lucien being gone, pining for Lucien, insisting she is fine, calling those around her a bunch of names, being judgmental, oblivious to her own bad behavior, and somehow becoming an expert at kick boxing. It finally picks up a little after she is kidnapped by some government agents and the Fosters have to rescue her. Is she appreciative of their efforts? No. Instead, Sam just complains some more, constantly going on about how she needs to be with her dad, when earlier she wished her dad would go away, and throwing a temper tantrum. The book ends with some wild plane ride to West Virginia, another obvious twist and betrayal, and finding out that Cassiel was really Lucien in disguise.
The grammar issues still remain in this book with missing punctuation, improper sentence structure, and a bunch of words that are hyphenated that shouldn’t be: shou-ld, wa-nt, de-sire, and wh-at to name a few. It’s all throughout the book and makes reading it a painful experience. I don’t know what happened, but I wish this author would edit her work or at least check the formatting. The sentences are very short and choppy, all with the same beat and rhythm, and the descriptions leave a lot to be desired, suffering from what I call the laundry list. A lot of modern books suffer from this, so it is little surprise that this one does too.
Lucien being Cassiel in disguise and getting away with it was not believable. Several times Sam is alone with him, and not once does she pick up that there is something strange. She spends the entire book wishing for Lucien to return, and she doesn’t notice that Cassiel has a lot of Lucien’s little habits? Instead, she finds out after they are trapped in a tunnel for a while, and he’s injured, and it’s a total surprise to her. And is she grateful to have him back? Nope. Instead, she chews him out. And that’s the other problem I had with this book. Sam is beyond stupid and self-absorbed. I get that she misses her boyfriend, but at some point, you’d think she would start getting over it, especially since she knows there are bigger things at stake.
Dusty’s character was a waste. He’s thrown in there, I guess, to give Sam some clarity on things, but it doesn’t work. In the end, I don’t care about him.
And then there is Sam. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but she is so selfish in this book! She also continues to do stupid things that make no sense. When she meets the doctor, she immediately hates her. Then, someone tells her some story and she trusts the doctor. A few minutes later, something happens and she hates her again. This happens for every character in the book. First Sam hates them, then she thinks they’re okay, then she hates them, they might be trustworthy, then she doesn’t trust them. Sam cannot make up her mind on whether she trusts someone or not and is very superficial in her judgement of others. Sam is not a heroine or a protagonist. She is just a shallow, self-absorbed, boring character.
The similarities between this and Twilight continue to be uncanny. In Eclipse, Bella goes on a suicidal bent because Edward left her and she spends the whole book pining for Edward. In Equinox, Sam goes on a suicidal bent because Lucien left her and spends the entire time wishing he were back. This is really just Twilight with aliens instead of vampires with the same boring, shallow main character.
At this point, I am torn on whether I want to finish up the series. I purchased all three books when they were on promotion, so I may read the third someday, but have my misgivings as to whether the series can improve at this point.
The first book in the series started off okay, but then got bogged down in the hopeless romance between Lucien and Sam—the instant attraction, can’t live without the other type—but it managed to keep a good pace. This one, however, is excruciatingly slow. Sam wakes up, alone and naked. Everyone, including her father, thinks that she has been abused by Lucien, and despite what she tells them, no one believes her. Eventually, she falls into a deep depression and decides to self-medicate by purchasing drugs on the internet. She gets caught, and her father takes her to a rehab center, of sorts, for counseling. Sam complains the entire way, insisting that she is fine and doesn’t need help, remaining oblivious to her self-destructive ways.
The first half of the book is just Sam complaining about Lucien being gone, pining for Lucien, insisting she is fine, calling those around her a bunch of names, being judgmental, oblivious to her own bad behavior, and somehow becoming an expert at kick boxing. It finally picks up a little after she is kidnapped by some government agents and the Fosters have to rescue her. Is she appreciative of their efforts? No. Instead, Sam just complains some more, constantly going on about how she needs to be with her dad, when earlier she wished her dad would go away, and throwing a temper tantrum. The book ends with some wild plane ride to West Virginia, another obvious twist and betrayal, and finding out that Cassiel was really Lucien in disguise.
The grammar issues still remain in this book with missing punctuation, improper sentence structure, and a bunch of words that are hyphenated that shouldn’t be: shou-ld, wa-nt, de-sire, and wh-at to name a few. It’s all throughout the book and makes reading it a painful experience. I don’t know what happened, but I wish this author would edit her work or at least check the formatting. The sentences are very short and choppy, all with the same beat and rhythm, and the descriptions leave a lot to be desired, suffering from what I call the laundry list. A lot of modern books suffer from this, so it is little surprise that this one does too.
Lucien being Cassiel in disguise and getting away with it was not believable. Several times Sam is alone with him, and not once does she pick up that there is something strange. She spends the entire book wishing for Lucien to return, and she doesn’t notice that Cassiel has a lot of Lucien’s little habits? Instead, she finds out after they are trapped in a tunnel for a while, and he’s injured, and it’s a total surprise to her. And is she grateful to have him back? Nope. Instead, she chews him out. And that’s the other problem I had with this book. Sam is beyond stupid and self-absorbed. I get that she misses her boyfriend, but at some point, you’d think she would start getting over it, especially since she knows there are bigger things at stake.
Dusty’s character was a waste. He’s thrown in there, I guess, to give Sam some clarity on things, but it doesn’t work. In the end, I don’t care about him.
And then there is Sam. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but she is so selfish in this book! She also continues to do stupid things that make no sense. When she meets the doctor, she immediately hates her. Then, someone tells her some story and she trusts the doctor. A few minutes later, something happens and she hates her again. This happens for every character in the book. First Sam hates them, then she thinks they’re okay, then she hates them, they might be trustworthy, then she doesn’t trust them. Sam cannot make up her mind on whether she trusts someone or not and is very superficial in her judgement of others. Sam is not a heroine or a protagonist. She is just a shallow, self-absorbed, boring character.
The similarities between this and Twilight continue to be uncanny. In Eclipse, Bella goes on a suicidal bent because Edward left her and she spends the whole book pining for Edward. In Equinox, Sam goes on a suicidal bent because Lucien left her and spends the entire time wishing he were back. This is really just Twilight with aliens instead of vampires with the same boring, shallow main character.
At this point, I am torn on whether I want to finish up the series. I purchased all three books when they were on promotion, so I may read the third someday, but have my misgivings as to whether the series can improve at this point.
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October 1, 2020
Equinox, book two of the Beyond Moondust Trilogy, is contemporary sci-fi romance, with aliens living on earth pretending to be human.
This review contains spoilers about book 1, but not book 2.
At the end of the previous book, Samantha’s alien boyfriend, Lucius, is being taken into the sky to meet his alien relatives, and Sam decides last minute to cling to him so that she can go with him. The next thing she knows (which is where Equinox begins), she is waking up, naked and alone in the middle of nowhere. Once she is found and reconnected with her dad, she realizes that she’s been missing for two weeks, and she has no memory of what happened. For the rest of the novel, she is trying to figure out what happened and is grieving until Lucius returns, hopefully on the Equinox.
This book wasn’t my favorite. Sam spends so much time feeling depressed and heartbroken for Lucius, it’s just sad. And my opinion of Lucius lowered by the end of the book. He’s a jerk. Somewhere deep down, I think he meant well, but he treated her like dirt. And then there’s Cassius, who Sam wonders if she likes, but he’s pretty awful too. So, I can’t say a good thing about the romance, and I personally, don’t like reading romance with as much heat as this does, either.
There was some action in the story, as Sam uncovers more of the secrets of the different kinds of aliens and their enemies on earth. The story feels a bit like a thriller at times, with much running from enemies, fighting, trying to uncover secrets, and not knowing whom to trust. That was the better, more interesting part of the story for me. It was pretty interesting. It ended on a pretty bad cliffhanger though.
Perhaps, if you like this kind of story, you will enjoy it, but while I enjoyed part of the plot, I won’t be reading the final book in the series.
I received a complementary copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
This review contains spoilers about book 1, but not book 2.
At the end of the previous book, Samantha’s alien boyfriend, Lucius, is being taken into the sky to meet his alien relatives, and Sam decides last minute to cling to him so that she can go with him. The next thing she knows (which is where Equinox begins), she is waking up, naked and alone in the middle of nowhere. Once she is found and reconnected with her dad, she realizes that she’s been missing for two weeks, and she has no memory of what happened. For the rest of the novel, she is trying to figure out what happened and is grieving until Lucius returns, hopefully on the Equinox.
This book wasn’t my favorite. Sam spends so much time feeling depressed and heartbroken for Lucius, it’s just sad. And my opinion of Lucius lowered by the end of the book. He’s a jerk. Somewhere deep down, I think he meant well, but he treated her like dirt. And then there’s Cassius, who Sam wonders if she likes, but he’s pretty awful too. So, I can’t say a good thing about the romance, and I personally, don’t like reading romance with as much heat as this does, either.
There was some action in the story, as Sam uncovers more of the secrets of the different kinds of aliens and their enemies on earth. The story feels a bit like a thriller at times, with much running from enemies, fighting, trying to uncover secrets, and not knowing whom to trust. That was the better, more interesting part of the story for me. It was pretty interesting. It ended on a pretty bad cliffhanger though.
Perhaps, if you like this kind of story, you will enjoy it, but while I enjoyed part of the plot, I won’t be reading the final book in the series.
I received a complementary copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
February 17, 2019
Cliffy
This again ended on a cliffy. I liked this installment too. I am a little frustrated by how Sam keeps regretting meeting the Fosters or living. By this time I wish she'd realize that her knowing the Fosters, while putting her in danger, isn't something to regret and just bwing a bit optimistic. But I am not sure that is in her personality. I love her anyways. There was some strong profanity in this book.
This again ended on a cliffy. I liked this installment too. I am a little frustrated by how Sam keeps regretting meeting the Fosters or living. By this time I wish she'd realize that her knowing the Fosters, while putting her in danger, isn't something to regret and just bwing a bit optimistic. But I am not sure that is in her personality. I love her anyways. There was some strong profanity in this book.
September 12, 2019
This book was really good I loved the first one and this disappoint I loved the characters there was some new characters I’m going to re read the first one before I read the next one I’d recommend this to anybody that likes sci-fantasy with Aline’s with no sex just it has a love between an alien and a human I’m not saying anymore you will have to read the book
I was sent this book for free in exchange for an honest review
I was sent this book for free in exchange for an honest review
September 22, 2017
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This book was better than the first. I could not put it down. I hope the third book is out soon.
This book was better than the first. I could not put it down. I hope the third book is out soon.
September 13, 2019
There’s a lot of twists and turns and this book just gets you sucked right into the story. Definitely recommend.
October 4, 2017
*I was sent this in return for an honest review*
I loved this one just as much if not more than the last. Throughout I didn't enjoy it as much because Lucien wasn't in it but something happened in the last few chapters that made the rest of the book so much greater than I had realised.
Samantha grew on me even more during this book, seeing her without Lucien seemed to build my respect for her greatly.
I also loved Cassiel also (I think that's how you spell it?)
I can't really describe it, I just loved it okay and you should read it.
Here is my full review: https://hawthornbookreviews.com/2017/....
I loved this one just as much if not more than the last. Throughout I didn't enjoy it as much because Lucien wasn't in it but something happened in the last few chapters that made the rest of the book so much greater than I had realised.
Samantha grew on me even more during this book, seeing her without Lucien seemed to build my respect for her greatly.
I also loved Cassiel also (I think that's how you spell it?)
I can't really describe it, I just loved it okay and you should read it.
Here is my full review: https://hawthornbookreviews.com/2017/....
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