Keep Your Enemies Close HS Stone Books
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First, the probes arrived. Then the mother ship landed. Then Lia’s world changed forever. With the alien invaders’ arrival, Lia and her best friend, Bryn, sign up for military duty to protect their town. When the aliens attack, however, Lia and her comrades are helpless to stop them. Worse, after the attack, she discovers that several of the townspeople, including her family, were abducted. Despite Lia’s pleading, no one wants to save those taken by the aliens. Desperate to rescue her parents and her little sister, Lia turns to the only source of help she can find… a captured alien invader.
Keep Your Enemies Close HS Stone Books
*I received a copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review.YOU GUYS, humans are the aliens in this story. (No, that's not a spoiler. It happens in the first few chapters.) I don't know about you but I found that idea absolutely fascinating. I haven't come across that much in anything I've read or watched before so the idea was still original for me. I particularly loved how subtle the revelation was. I had to read the reveal a few times before I got it. Even after that, you'd almost forget about the others not being human except for the blue skin and other odd things.
As you'd expect in any us-versus-them type of story, we soon find out the aliens (Tolusians) are surprisingly human. You can't help but sympathize with them because we, the reader, are seeing the invasion from their point of view. We understand how terrifying it is to have cities destroyed and hundreds of your people taken by strange aliens.
I liked the dual narration in the story. We're able to see both points of view. You understand why the Tolusians are scared but we also slowly learn that they'd be willing to live peaceably with humans. You understand that humans are just trying to find a new planet to live on but are doing it in a terrible way. It makes you start to wonder who really is the "alien". It kind of reminded me a bit of the Spackle in Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness because of the grayness in what to do.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated the fact that there was NO romance between an alien and a human. That's pretty much unheard of in YA books. There was some romance between other characters but nothing in your face about it.
The bottom line? Fascinating science fiction book.
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Keep Your Enemies Close HS Stone Books Reviews
H.S. Stone mentioned this project in his interview, but I didn’t know when it would release until he contacted me to promote it last month. And then he was nice enough to offer me a review copy – to which I said, “heck yes!”
Lia was enjoyable. She wasn’t exactly a kick-butt kind of girl, but she was stubborn (sometimes to the point of not thinking things through). She was also a pretty good leader and surprisingly good at working with her own half-baked plans. I thoroughly enjoyed following her through the story.
Bryn was considerate and supportive, and I would love to have him as a friend. He wasn’t as assertive as I would have preferred, but I was happy for Lia when their friendship started to become a little more.
I’m going to do all I can to avoid spoilers, because this plot was so fun to discover. It starts simple, with Lia and Bryn taking a captured alien to rescue Lia’s family. But the alien is much stronger than them, and how they manage to keep him from escaping is about a third of the story. It’s also fun that the alien was a point of view character.
There were also some interesting themes of prejudice and questioning traditions. The aliens weren’t the only obstacle – some of Lia’s fellow militiapeople weren’t particularly helpful. The ending was also surprisingly happy for an alien invasion story.
Either H.S. Stone is brilliant or I was being extremely dense. I got to the end of this book and suddenly everything made sense. I made an assumption at the beginning that turned out to be absolutely wrong, and it left me feeling like there was a huge twist at the end even though it probably wasn’t supposed to be one. (If you’ve read this, I’d be interested to hear if you made a similar assumption or if you figured it out sooner than me.)
I very much enjoyed KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE. I doubt there will be a sequel, but I’m definitely going to have to check out the rest of H.S. Stone’s books.
I received a free review copy of KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE from the author. His generosity in no way influenced, or sought to influence, this review.
I received a complimentary copy of Keep Your Enemies Close in exchange for an honest review.
The concept is really interesting and from reading other reviews I had a fair idea about what might happen. I was also excited about the cover which called to me. I was full of anticipation that this would be a gritty exploration using a sci-fi to explore themes of racism, conformity and stereotyping.
So yes, I freely admit I fell into the trap of judging the book by the cover - I expected adult themes, and instead found the content much more suited to a (very) young adult market.
I would have thought the style to be suitable for children aged around eleven to thirteen or so. I know I have a penchant for books that are dark and angst ridden, but somehow I completely misjudged this and spent much of the read with a dissonance expecting the book to become deeper and darker which never happened.
So if like me you're looking for something dark then this isn't where you'll find it. I liked the characters well enough, but I never actually engaged with them and their actions seemed to be reactionary and superficial without regard for consequence. So, I felt opportunities for character development were missed, and resolution seemed to come too readily. That is why I think the book would work so much better for a younger market who would enjoy a yarn about humans and aliens and provides some room to think about ethical dilemmas such as, sharing limited resources, integrity and overcoming prejudice.
With perhaps a more cynical and world weary approach, I was not fully satisfied, and unusually for me, not a tear was shed from start to finish. That said, I enjoyed the story and was sufficiently intrigued to know what the conclusion might be.
For those readers who like a lighter read, this has an interesting concept and a plot that keeps the action rolling not to mention a little bit of love interest for the romantics amongst us (but not too much to cause discomfort for younger readers with a more sensitive nature).
*I received a copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
YOU GUYS, humans are the aliens in this story. (No, that's not a spoiler. It happens in the first few chapters.) I don't know about you but I found that idea absolutely fascinating. I haven't come across that much in anything I've read or watched before so the idea was still original for me. I particularly loved how subtle the revelation was. I had to read the reveal a few times before I got it. Even after that, you'd almost forget about the others not being human except for the blue skin and other odd things.
As you'd expect in any us-versus-them type of story, we soon find out the aliens (Tolusians) are surprisingly human. You can't help but sympathize with them because we, the reader, are seeing the invasion from their point of view. We understand how terrifying it is to have cities destroyed and hundreds of your people taken by strange aliens.
I liked the dual narration in the story. We're able to see both points of view. You understand why the Tolusians are scared but we also slowly learn that they'd be willing to live peaceably with humans. You understand that humans are just trying to find a new planet to live on but are doing it in a terrible way. It makes you start to wonder who really is the "alien". It kind of reminded me a bit of the Spackle in Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness because of the grayness in what to do.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated the fact that there was NO romance between an alien and a human. That's pretty much unheard of in YA books. There was some romance between other characters but nothing in your face about it.
The bottom line? Fascinating science fiction book.
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