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Alien Innkeeper on Particle
Martian Sylvestine Amera is no novice when it comes to managing a hotel. Syl is of an Earth background, while her fiancée, Dedare Sath, is from the planet Irion. He entices her to the planet Particle where a new world for Syl and a newly acquired purchase awaits. A hotel, Sath-Ooby Golden, he hopes Syl will agree to manage. Accompanied by her pregnant BFF and family and friends, Syl is subjected to new customs, alien encounters, adventures, and life-threatening experiences. She has a challenging time finding her way through the chaos, not to mention trying to bond with her future stepdaughter. Despite her love of traveling to new places, Syl cannot help but worry if this world experience will end with someone dying.
388 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2021
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About the author
Roxanne Barbour
15 books211 followersI have been reading science fiction since about the age of eleven when I discovered “Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars” by Ellen MacGregor.
The years passed by while I had careers as a computer programmer, music teacher, insurance office administrator, and logistics coordinator for an international freight company.
I took early retirement and decided to put to use all the books on writing that I had accumulated over the years, and actually start writing.
Novel: REVOLUTIONS (2015)
Novel: SACRED TRUST (2015)
Novel: KAIKU (2017)
Novel: AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE (2017)
Novel: ALIEN INNKEEPER (coming soon)
I also dabble in speculative poetry.
The years passed by while I had careers as a computer programmer, music teacher, insurance office administrator, and logistics coordinator for an international freight company.
I took early retirement and decided to put to use all the books on writing that I had accumulated over the years, and actually start writing.
Novel: REVOLUTIONS (2015)
Novel: SACRED TRUST (2015)
Novel: KAIKU (2017)
Novel: AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE (2017)
Novel: ALIEN INNKEEPER (coming soon)
I also dabble in speculative poetry.
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January 21, 2022
“”why did someone lock me in the laundry room?” When only silence greeted my question, I changed the subject.” -From Alien Innkeeper on Particle
2 stars
There is a lot in this book that makes no sense. One of the hardest things to contend with is the Particlan language you have to weed through, despite the MC having a translator. Why can’t it just be translated then?? The dialogue is already choppy even between humans, so the addition of these three word sentences is so cumbersome. The MC is clueless, doesn’t even know about the planet and culture, let alone how to run things. They seem to have zero authority, like what I quoted. This incident left her in the hospital (somehow), and she brings it up, gets no answer, and just moves on? You have to slog through the boring running of the hotel A LOT. I wouldn’t think you could make an alien hotel boring. Everything is told to you, rather than shown; and then repeated. There’s an odd side plot of the Particlan Olympics, and if you’re feeling brave you can make a drinking game over how many times this MC mentions they dive. The idea is kinda cool, but the execution is an exhausting not entertaining read.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.
2 stars
There is a lot in this book that makes no sense. One of the hardest things to contend with is the Particlan language you have to weed through, despite the MC having a translator. Why can’t it just be translated then?? The dialogue is already choppy even between humans, so the addition of these three word sentences is so cumbersome. The MC is clueless, doesn’t even know about the planet and culture, let alone how to run things. They seem to have zero authority, like what I quoted. This incident left her in the hospital (somehow), and she brings it up, gets no answer, and just moves on? You have to slog through the boring running of the hotel A LOT. I wouldn’t think you could make an alien hotel boring. Everything is told to you, rather than shown; and then repeated. There’s an odd side plot of the Particlan Olympics, and if you’re feeling brave you can make a drinking game over how many times this MC mentions they dive. The idea is kinda cool, but the execution is an exhausting not entertaining read.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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