Steel yourselves for intrigue, suspense, and high action. Get ready for the thrill of a vacation gone wrong. So you will be scratching your head like I did with the ending and the cover art.Ī good book if you’re sitting in subway trying to avoid eye contact with a guy in a spangle suit.

Other aliens that are not very well described and a human who manages to garner support from a xenophobic society.Įerl (get it?) the alien follows Mel the human across the galaxy helping her in every situation and ultimately finding out what happened to her parents all those years ago. An alien with a western hick accent and humanistic traits. Review: Real short novella that has superb writing but lacks in the creative. Her search for her past and his quest for knowledge take them across the stars as they uncover the darkness and fear in us all. Publisher Description: A military beefcake with a grudge, a wartime conspiracy, a stolen ship, a galaxy full of prejudice, and at the center of it all, a young human named Mel in search of the truth. He expected to shop for rare artifacts from war-ravaged Earth and maybe study at the grand library, but not even his background in Human Studies from the University of Tersia could prepare him for what came next:Ī military beefcake with a grudge, a wartime conspiracy, a stolen ship, a galaxy full of prejudice, and at the center of it all, a young human named Mel in search of the truth. When Eerl stepped off The Marzipan, he was one of a billion tourists on Bay-zar. Hell, you could even buy yerself a gen-u-ine religion if you were so inclined. ‘Round the corner though, you could find everything from ship parts and dried food packs, to roast dog and the rare bi-cycle. Unless ya circled ‘round to the more habitable region, you’d be stuck without a ship to anywhere.

Class-M planet in the middle of no-where.

Class-M Exile by Raven Oak