I thought I would share a new book my family read this week called Not Alone (Vox Oculis) by Frederic Martin which we received a PDF Copy of from Voracious Readers for this review. Inside this post you will see our affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage off the items you purchase.
Before I share my thoughts with you on Not Alone (Vox Oculis) Book 1 of 3: which is a series of 3 books that can be purchased here .Vox Oculis Trilogy This is a young adult novel with a touch of Science but adults may find the story interesting as well. At times the book was a tad bit sow but it didn’t keep me and Charlie my son from read the book.
The story is a bout Blue who is a 14-year-old girl being taken away. be prepared as she faces “another year, another new foster family, a new school, new vicious kids, new idiot teachers…new breakdowns, new violent outbursts… and of course another year to survive.” Sounds like a lot of our live doesn’t it.
The story is a bout Blue who is a 14-year-old girl being taken away. be prepared as she faces “another year, another new foster family, a new school, new vicious kids, new idiot teachers…new breakdowns, new violent outbursts… and of course another year to survive.” Sounds like a lot of our live doesn’t it.
“She put on her practiced act of being an ordinary girl joining an ordinary family.” But she does have one special quality which is the ability to hear thoughts. She was a strange one—not normal. An alien. But what if she wasn’t the only one? What if she was not alone? She eventually meets Will, who seemed to understand what it was like. And not just him. Apparently, his whole family could “vox.”
Charlie and I had fun learning about something we hadn’t ever heard of which is “vox”. By the time the story was finished we had drawn David into the story and he also read and enjoyed the storyline a lot. My family can’t wait to purchase the other two books to see what else is going to happen and why.
About the book:
It’s summer, 2011, and for four and a half years, all Blue has been looking for is a normal life after losing her family in a suspicious fire. But what is normal for a fourteen-year-old that can hear what no one else can? And what should she do when she hears something that presents a tantalizing opportunity to avenge her family? With an unexpected new friend and ally, she comes up with a slam-dunk plan. All she has to do is risk everything, including both of their lives.
Whether you like coming-of-age or teen thrillers or mystery or even young romance, you will find an enticing blend of all these elements in this first book of a unique sci-fi YA trilogy set in down-to-earth rural Vermont.
“Extraordinary and unforgettable…” – The Prairies Book Review
“A creative masterpiece…” – The San Francisco Book Review
Meet the Author: Frederic (Fritz) Martin
Frederic (Fritz) Martin was born in Iowa, grew up in Western New York, and lived and worked in Maine, Idaho, and California, finally settling in Vermont where he now lives and writes.
As an undergraduate at Colby College, he studied studio art, music, creative writing, philosophy yet wound up with a degree in Physics. At U.C. Santa Barbara as a Physics grad student in scientific instrumentation, he discovered the world of sensors and worked with other graduate students examining the amazingly diverse array of senses that ocean creatures utilize to communicate and survive.
Along the way, he jack-hammered concrete, worked as a mechanic, delivered papers, rowed dories as a guide on the great western rivers, hitch-hiked everywhere, and read a lot. He married and raised a son and a daughter with his wife Betsy, settling into a career as sensor engineer designing sensors for robotics and autonomous vehicles. He never stopped reading and writing, and published his first work in 2018, winning the Vermont Writer’s Prize for his short story “Maybe Lake Carmi.” The novel “Not Alone” is his debut novel and the first novel of the Vox Oculis series, a series that challenges us to imagine what human senses might exist or may have existed in our evolutionary past and have since been lost or become carefully guarded secrets.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
