A Different view on Alien life as we know it and how humans are the real monsters

Hi, a review over a futuristic Sci-Fi book about humans and aliens with a twist on how we normally perceive Aliens. 

In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

A totally unique story of aliens coming to earth.  Usually, they are way more intelligent than us and are trying to conquer and take over by killing everyone and using our land for its supplies. and that is not really the case in this book. The Aliens are intelligent but they want to live in a peaceful coexistence yes there may be some ulterior motives and some of the Ancients as they are called I'm sure are not warm and fuzzy happy with humans. The ancients don't need as much water as they claim they do and they hid many of their people on Earth called Latent or rogues. Which is against the treaty they only suppose up come for the Takings. Which is quite a different concept they come in at midnight and the human has to wear this patch on their faces that cover their eyes and paralyzes the person for 30 minutes while the Ancient takes antibodies from the human? 

There is a love story is good Lawrence(Law) and Ari are kinda betrothed by their parents since he is the son of the president and she is the daughter of the Commander sort of head of the military but she does not love Law she falls in love with Jackson who she finds out is the Ancient assigned to her for the takings. Some humans think that they can't coexist on the same planet with the Ancients because there is not enough food etc. 

Humans' treatment and experimenting to torture the Ancients is wrong. Humans to find out how to kill them and disperse a neurotoxin. The Ancient just want to live in peace, but humans are sometimes afraid of someone or something that is different than they are and try to find ways to get rid of them or control them. Humans are mean which I think was totally uncalled for since the Ancient has not done anything really wrong they just want to live on Earth and have the Humans abide by the treaty. 

 From what I have gathered the Ancient have not done much to warrant this hostility yes they attack the school and other places but only because the humans refused to honor the agreement of the treaty for peaceful coexistence. Ari and Jackson work together to figure out what really is going on and help him stop the war from happening if humans do not comply with the laws of the treaty. They find out at the ball where the four heads of State around the world met to discuss which action to take and they decide on an Airborne attack which leads to the neurotoxin is released. 

Humans did not think or know how the toxin might hurt humans too because some Ancient has the power to heal humans and given them Xylem in their bodies. So when it dispersed and many humans get sick included Ari and Chloe who was the operative showing Ari how they were experimenting on the Ancients. People panic the government refuses to connect the toxin and the disease as one and the same. They take the infected and put them into an execution camp and Zeus the leader of the ancients announces anyone who is sick can come live on Loge but the can never return home. Ari's mom is able to come up with an antitoxin to cure the symptoms but they only last an hour. Ari, Gretchen, and Lawrence all go to the camp to rescue the people in the process they have to fight and kill other humans who are there to guard the prisoners. 

Jackson ends up showing up right when Ari antidote is wearing off and he carries her through a port to his planet. The book ends with her on Loge being treated for her illness and Ari having to deal with the fact she finds out Jackson is the grandson of Zeus and can she forgive him for lying to her. She is lost and confused and not sure if she will ever see Earth or her family again. Jackson says she can communicate with her family but what will happen how can this War be prevented.  

I can't wait to read the next book Hover that comes out in August.

She is good at her job until gets taken for a unusual turn

Hi, I am going to talk about a book that I did not like for a change I'd planned on being a bit more balanced with my Reviews but I haven't read many books that I downright hated or disliked. 

Andra Martineau is no ordinary young woman. She's a Klêidouchos Propylaia (K-Pro for short), which means she has the unique ability to help certain people get exactly what they want. And Andra is good at her job her clients have gone on to become 

a veritable who's who of the rich-and-famous. David Styles is an up-and-coming an actor with everything going for him: looks, talent, and countless beautiful women vying for his attention. But when Andra turns up in his bed demanding to know what he wants, his perfect world starts to spiral out of control. And it's not just his reputation on the line what David doesn't know can certainly harm him, in ways he couldn't possibly begin to imagine.

With the help of David's incorrigible costar, Andra begins to realize not only her own true nature, but David's hidden identity as well. Andra is forced to battle not only her attraction to David (and she never gets involved with clients), but the being within him, that wants to take away everything she holds dear.

As David continues to lose himself to the strengthening form within him, Andra navigates the jealousies of the film's director and David's would-be paramour in an effort to save him. She can make others' wishes come true, but can she grant her own? The K-Pro is a fast-paced contemporary fantasy with a paranormal twist.

I did not like this book for many reasons first the setting of the story never changed the whole thing took place at one house where the main character David an actor is apart of filming a Regency Piece movie. The plot is really nonexistent and no real climax. Andra is called by David to help him with something but she doesn't find out till later that he is being kind of possessed by the spirit of a God and his co-star Alfred is really Dionysus the God of wine and fertility. The best part of the book is the Interludes that give the back story. A Lady named Hecate stole a key from Janus who is now in David's body trying to get the key back so he can return to Olympus. So Cassandra(Andra) has this key but does not remember who she is and that it does not really belong to her. She has been using the key to help humans achieve their goals of fame and fortune like Ben Mackenzie the director of the movie. 

Janus(David) and Hecate(Andra) are drawn together he calls her so he can get the key back but she does not know what he wants or who David really is. So they all run around this Victorian House by the ocean trying to film a movie while Andra figures out why she has been called here. In the end, Alfred tells them who he is and if they drink his special wine they will forget that they are Gods and go on there way as nothing ever happened.

They're a bit of love in the book Liz a co-star on the set wants David the director brings in his old girlfriend because he thinks his actors are getting involved with each other and does not want that. Alfred has been seeing the makeup lady Tina. Most of the characters end up outside the house at night because David and Alfred take a walk and go missing. Soon everyone finds them and the truth is revealed. 

David(Janus) mother Juno shows up and tells him to get the key back and he has to swallow it so they can return to be back with the other Gods after three thousand years of being stuck on Earth. So David(J) has a choice to make he can take the key back and go home and David ceases to exist, or he can drink Dionysus(Alfred) wine and forget that he is a God and continue to be David. The regular show up and Margie David's ex comes up and is convinced by Bacchus a.k. Alfred or Dionysus to drink some of his wine and she passes out cold. So some of the men have to carry her back to the house.

Janus told his mom that he did not want to swallow the key he gave it back to Andra and took the flask and drank. He returned to himself and forgot that he was a God and confused why his mother and ex were here but Cassandra looked into his eyes and saw them changing and she knew he did not really drink the wine. His mom still wants him to take the key but he decided to give it to Andra. He tells his mom that Cate "has a true purpose. She uses that key to help people," David(Janus) and Andra(Cate) were left alone and he tells her he did not drink the wine because he did not want to forget her and it tastes awful. He tells her he wants her and has loved her for three thousand years. So they agree to be together. 

So it was a book that I did not enjoy reading it was dry and boring with no big plot structure and no climax. There was a problem they got it solved and two people realized who they really were and they loved each other.