TWIN LANDING – Rex Burke

Book cover for Twin Landing by Rex Burke. Depicts a satellite with solar panels deployed.

Twin Landing is a successful follow up to Orphan Planet. Rex continues to explore the human experience with the story’s arcs finding humor, growth, stress, motivations, love and more.

His storytelling captures this reader’s attention and holds it page after page.

The challenges our intrepid extra-solar settlers face keep the story line intriguing for most any SciFi fan.

New players are defrosted where the Captain, forgive me, Juno, finds allies, surprises and a villain in the making. Existing characters, delightfully, find more development and prominence.

Is there mutiny afoot? For some, they consider putting everything on the line for love.

I read a wide spectrum of the SciFi and Fantasy genres. Rex’s prose is refreshing and thoroughly enjoyable.

“Typical. The colony ship, Odyssey Earth , travels fifty trillion miles without finding a habitable planet, and then two come along at once.

The mission is not exactly going to plan for the settlers of New Earth. In the aftermath of an accident that robbed them of their youngest crew-members, Captain Juno Washington and her second-in-command, Susannah, are contending with broken hearts and brittle feelings. Reeves, the AI, is feeling strangely out of sorts, the new security officer is behaving oddly, and the local goats have just gatecrashed the landing ceremony.

Things aren’t much better on the neighbouring twin planet, where the castaways are finding life hard without home comforts. Dana, Dervla, Manisha, Karlan, Bryson and Poole – six feisty teenagers with a nice line in condescension, eye rolls, and opinions about everything. And Jordan Booth, who just wants a hot shower and a quiet life.

When new arrivals threaten the mission, friends are separated and family ties tested. Meanwhile, as the twin planet starts to give up its secrets, Poole wants to go exploring. And Poole – everyone agrees – is an idiot who you wouldn’t let look after a hamster, so what could possibly go wrong there?

In the end, it all comes down to trust. Who’s on your side? Who’s got your back? And who’s coming to the rescue?”
 

343 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2023

 

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