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Gracie's Touch (2012)

by S.E. Smith(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

Zion Warriors

review 1: Main Characters:Gracie Jones - A woman who has been mysteriously pushed into the future after destroying an evil alien ship intent on taking over EarthKordon Jefe - A Zion commander who rescues and mates with GracieSynopsis:Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five. At seventeen, she made a decision that turned the tide on the war between Earth and the Alluthans but in exchange she gave up all that she knew.Kordon Jefe is a Zion Warrior and commanding officer in charge of the Confederation of Planets military. When an unknown... more species begins attacking some of their outer settlements, he is assigned to discover who they are and stop them…at any cost. Gracie unknowingly finds herself stranded millions of light years and hundreds of years in the future in a distant galaxy on an undeveloped moon. When an old enemy threatens once more, she does not hesitant to use her knowledge to try to stop them once again. Only this time, it is not just Earth she will be saving but the Confederation itself.When their two worlds are thrown together, Kordon is unsure what to do with the strange, delicate creature that fights and behaves unlike anything he has ever encountered before. One thing he does know, he plans to keep her.My Thoughts:The characters are cartoonish and the plot is a string of cliches. I swear you can see the scenes from the movies that she picks out...like using an alien vessel to fly up to the mother ship and place a virus in it...can anyone say Independence Day?? Of course the big hole in the movie and in this book is that the virus would have to run in a language understood and accepted by the alien ship. So what is the likelihood that Earth and some other planet (with vastly superior technology) would both use Java or JavaScript or C or C++ or whatever language is used here on Earth?And this book takes the silliness to an even higher level because Gracie is sent 800 years into the future and her virus still works just fine against the enemy ship. Now lets bear in mind that since the 1950's when the first computer was built, we have gone through many iterations of languages and they don't typically talk to each other. That is just 50 years so if someone 800 years from now were to try to get a Java script to execute in that futuristic system, I don't have any expectation that it would even start, let alone function. The premise is just ludicrous.And the interactions between the characters are just painful to read...really, Gracie should just don superwoman tights and be done with it...this is just a really bad book.
review 2: This was such a touching and yet heartbreaking story. I fell in love with Gracie and her strong determination not to give up. Numerous times she was will to sacrifice herself and her love to save others. Equally loved Kordon who was determined to give her a life of happiness after learning everything she had survived. No one could resist falling in love with her once they knew her story. Loved supporting characters as well. There were a few grammatical errors throughout book but still worth 5 stars and looking forward to more. less

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