Mary E Lowd

When I saw: Perfect for fans of sci-fi thrillers and horror, from Alien to Jurassic Park. I thought, how can I go wrong? I may have started out thinking, yeah, Hell Moon is what I expected and I was lured in by that beautiful cover, but it didn’t take long before I became intrigued.

We start with a distress call. The group find a human woman and 8 or 9 year old child, in a cryochamber. The woman doesn’t make it, but Maya becomes a part of their group and Janice takes on a mother/guardian role.

I started to connect with the characters and wondered…who will survive. After all, this is a horror story and someone has to get knocked off. We do have a couple of humans. I fell in love with Janice, a human, Gaby, an uplifted dog, and Cristobel, an uplifted cat. I’ll leave it to you to read the book and figure that one out. We also have Tyler, a human, and his uplifted dog, Jaimy. We have S’risssa and Ahn’ssi, 6 1/2 foot tall lizards. The are S’rellick aliens. The two aliens have a mission….

The ship is The Kanga, operated by Artificial Intelligence. We are underground, with ghosts and scarabs. One civilization built on top of another.

“You pretend the monsters don’t exist, and then maybe they won’t, right? Isn’t that why you lied?”

“…we lie and say we can make things better. But we don’t know if we can. And sometimes, no matter what we do, it turns out we can’t.”

Hell Moon by Mary E Lowd was a fabulous surprise. I thought, okay, it sounds interesting. It did take me a while to get involved, but after I met the unique and unusual characters I couldn’t stop reading. As the battle between the creatures and the group intensify, lives will be lost. An author that can take out one of my favorite characters could be on MY hit list, but that is not the case. Everything comes together in a way that left me satisfied, yet wanting more. So bring on the The Ancient Egg, Book II.

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A touching and witty novel with unconventional characters and surprising depth.

Clarity, a green-haired and middle-aged human, has lived and travelled with Irohann for thirty years. When money woes force them to consider taking passengers as well as cargo, Wisper – a sapient robot – comes along with an offer that's too good to be true.

I've been wanting to read this book since it first came out six months ago. But since it's in the ironically named Kindle Unlimited, it seemed I'd never get the chance. But I recently got my little paws on a review copy. And I'm so glad I did.

This book has it all: an adorable organic spaceship, sapient bunnies, an aro-ace QPR, a multiracial lesbian couple, and a race against the clock to save the entire universe. All the heart and plenty of wit to boot.

If you enjoyed John Scalzi's The Android's Dream, TJ Berry's Space Unicorn Blues, and/or Kaia Sønderby's Failure to Communicate, check it out now.… (mere)