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Taken Away follows a space crew who has woken up early from their cryogenic sleep to encounter a vast array of unforeseen problems and challenges. What was the inspiration for the setup to your story?
I am a huge fan of Alien I just love the story a lot of inspiration.
Did you create an outline for the characters in the story before you started writing or did the characters’ personalities grow organically as you were writing?
The ideas, come from people I know just friends and family just my surroundings.
What were some themes that were important for you to explore in this book?
Betrayal Courage and perseverance love.
What is the next book that you are working on and when will it be available?
I have a part two to my 1st book reincarnated in an Alien body.
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nuclear weapons. Most of the humans that remain live underground, in the caverns
of Mars. A small band of specially chosen soldiers is given a mission to reclaim Earth,
to see if it’s fit for colonization. They’ve trained their whole lives for this mission.
Still, nothing in the cosmos could possibly prepare them for what they are about to
unearth.
The human brain can only fit so much stuff in it, so instead of learning a little bit
about a bunch of topics, they chose a bunch of soldiers and make them learn a
lot about a smaller number of topics. As a unit, this made them stronger… But if
someone died, that knowledge died with them.
People thought that meeting intelligent life would bring peace. They were wrong.
When the soldiers landed on the planet’s surface to investigate something that
should not be flourishing human settlements. The squad encounters very bad and
dangerous circumstances and suddenly survival became the most requested need.
Taken Away
A fantastic race through space told from the first-person perspective of First Officer Genevieve Autumn graces the pages of Taken Away by London Knight. A dying planet: a desperate race for resources out there in the vast blackness of space. With the building blocks of so many preceding science-fiction tales firmly supporting it, we travel on an adventure that takes us across the universe and spans hundreds of years. But the conspiracies have been in play for much longer than we realize, as the cryogenic sleep that was supposed to support Genevieve and her crew until they reached their planet of salvation goes wrong, and the new world is more hostile than they expected.
The world of Taken Away is carefully constructed and told in the first person. This style of narration lends a sense of ownership to the reader. We are there; we are experiencing it. London Knight does a great job building the characters that will carry this story and gives a slightly different twist to the trope of a space crew that is frozen for a big adventure. It has been done before, but Knight peppers the awakening of the team with an interesting side effect that hasn’t been done before.
The excitement is present from the get-go and doesn’t stop. There are problems with the ship, with the sleep, with the awakening of the crew, and the unexpected side effect they find themselves experiencing after their freezing. And that’s just what happens at the start. It seems like everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, but that is just the beginning. There is a bigger conspiracy at play here and a much bigger reveal the deeper you travel within these pages.
If you are looking for an exciting science fiction book that will keep you engaged and on your toes as you flip through the pages, then you must pick up a copy of Taken Away by London Knight. Not often are science fiction stories told through the lens of a female character who is more than just a pretty face. Genevieve Autumn is a First Officer, and she absolutely deserves her position. She’s earned it through merit, and her skills bring the story together. The ending could be interpreted as a beginning of sorts: perhaps there will be a part two for readers to eagerly look forward to.
Taken Away is a riveting science fiction adventure with a strong female protagonist. Readers will be taken through space on a mission that challenges them on all levels and is filled with uncertainty and unexpected events keeping everyone on edge.
Pages: 268 | ASIN : B0B9K4Z5Z9
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