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Koinobi
- Koinobi Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Benjamin Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
How far would you go to help a parasitic insect from the stars?
Tweeskzaht nudges human civilization and technology forward from the shadows. Unaware of the war in the stars above it, Earth is in the cross-hairs of both sides. To save her adopted home, she must reveal herself to a small band of humans. Will Mike's self-sacrifice, Kindra's cunning, and David's intelligence be enough to save Earth from becoming a hunting ground?
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- Longears
- 25-04-20
Who you are is more important than what you are.
This is the first part of a trilogy where we meet the triggering entity of all that follows. For a long time Earth has been an outpost abandoned to its failed slave species, the humans. Originally these dumb brutes hardly had a language and didn't have a civilisation. Amongst them lived in secret a single creature that carried knowledge from extended life to extended life living inside it's human hosts. Now Humans are an entirely different creature and their radio broadcasts are radiating out into space and the sole creature that can prevent humanity being a tipping point in the middle of an interstellar war is reaching out.
I liked this story. The concept was neat, and the thought sharing was nicely done. It takes a little time before the story begins to flow and it doesn't present it's best face first, so stick with it because once it warms up it is an entertaining, warmhearted and thoughtful take on first contact.
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- Norma Miles
- 13-03-20
How did you make that human talk?
The first book in a trilogy, Koinobi is a surprisingly charming look at first contact, even if the initial pages are very much of the horror genre. In fact, there are three new alien races encountered. The first is a scorpion-like bug, named Tweeskyaht, who has made Earth her hiding place and home for thousands of years, living on through her host human and quiet!y aiding humanity's advancement, preparing Earth for a conflict she is certain will one day come. She might be sympathetic to humans but, from our point of view, has some very unpleasant habits. Then there are the two warring societies, with Earth caught in the middle...
The author has a straightforward writing style, simple but effective, and he is very capable of creating an aura of hostility or fear, or simple pleasure of being (like shopping amidst bright attractive fabrics in a market), yet at times becomes somewhat clunky in his interpersonal relationships. Almost awkward. But then, so too are the relationships being described. Narration by Benjamin Cole is well paced and modulated, the characters individually voiced. The recording quality, however, can be less than perfect on occasion - not echoing but with a feeling of vastness behind it. A pity as this distracts from the otherwise good performance.
Readers will, if they enjoy this book, definitely want to continue with book two in the tri!ogy, as this volume ends with a sense that things have only just begun. I know that I want to know what happens next. I was very fortunate in being freely gifted with a complimentary copy of Koinobi at my request, by the rights holder, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you. It was an u usual take on two of science fiction's more popular topics: first contact and inter galactic war. Recommended.
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