I would like to share a YA or Supernatural Sci-Fi book called Not Alone (Vox Oculis) by Frederic Martin (Author) that I received a copy of from the Author and Voracious Readers in exchange for this review. The thoughts in the review is mine and my families. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
young adult adventure,family with unique powers of communication and their struggles to keep it hidden but yet trying to understand why the have it. Sometimes unique abilities can be a burden. I thought the evolutionary explanation for their skill very plausible and added an element of understanding that is often absent in similar themed books
If you are seeking a break from dystopian or high fantasy sci-fi, this may be just what you are looking for.
Exploring the genesis of the teen opioid epidemic, but with a hard science fiction twist, Not Alone is a YA sci-fi thriller set in down-to-earth rural Vermont:
“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.”
Meet the Author:
FREDERIC 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
