Feedback by Peter Cawdron

Synopsis: There are two stories going on in this book.  One takes place 20 years in the past where a UFO crashes off the coast of North Korea.  The other takes place in present time about a boy trying to get by in New York City.  The two stories eventually combine themselves into a tale of alien interstellar time travel.

My review: I am not normally a huge science fiction fan but this book was good.  The science fiction part does not really come into play too much until the end.  Let me clarify, this entire book is about UFO's, time travel, and space but it's also kind of a love story.  I could not put this book down.  As I was reading one day, my wife commented on just how many pages I read from one day to the next, easily 200 pages.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end.  I loved the characters and especially how they all came together in the end.  A well written, enjoyable story to say the least.  Thank you Peter.

I feel like Peter Cawdron was a rocket scientist in another life or something, he knows so much about space and science, it amazes me.  For all I know he is a scientist now and writes in his personal time.  Maybe he is from the future and knew I would love this book and write it for me.  Could be true?  Unfortunately I don't know much about him but I do have all his books and I will definitely keep reading them.  Plus he is from Australia, maybe on my next trip back we can sit down and talk about some of this time travel business...

My rating: 8
Pages: 392
Author website: http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/

Monsters by Peter Cawdron

Synopsis:  A meteor passes by earth leaving behind some kind of dust or debris that overtime changes all the animals into giant monsters.  Dogs the size of horses, ants the size of a human foot, leaving humans no longer at the top of the food chain.  As times goes on the monsters get bigger and there are less and less people.  Bruce and his son James must learn to fight off not only the monsters of the animal kingdom but also those monsters trying to take back claim of a world that no longer belongs to them.

My review:  I felt like this book was a bit slow going in the beginning but now I realize that a picture needed to be painted before I could appreciate the work as a whole.  After about 100 pages I could not put this book down.  I became a big fan of James and his view of the way the world should be.  There is quite a bit of story line going on throughout this book and I don't want to give away too much in the synopsis so I kept it as brief as possible.  One thing I really liked was how Peter, the author was able to describe the monsters, I could truly picture them in my mind.  In the end I just enjoyed the uniqueness of this whole story and while this is the first book I have read of Peter's it will definitely not be the last.

My rating:  7
Pages:  342
Author website:  http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/