{"id":434,"date":"2021-11-14T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:15:32","slug":"review-of-from-the-grave-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/review-of-from-the-grave-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2013 From the Grave of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The novella prequel The Re-Emergence and novel From the Grave of the Gods<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From the Grave of the Gods<\/a><\/em> is set in a current-day hard science fiction universe, which then takes you into an adventure of humanity\u2019s first real contact with advanced alien civilizations \u2013 an amazing, full-length novel by new author Alan K. Dell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s wonderful to find a great page-turner from a new writer. The deeper I got into this book the more I couldn\u2019t put it down (I know that is cliche\u2019 but very true, I read the last 50% of it in a nearly consecutive 6 hour binge!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prologue to the novel presents a sequence of Commander James Fowler\u2019s memories in the format of a forced interrogation of his mind, by an unknown pair of alien tormenters. Some of them are very cryptic but I believe it\u2019s setting up things for the future Augment Series novels. One of these memories leads into the first chapter of this initial novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story begins with the first manned mission to Mars in 2025, a mission to investigate what is at first believed to be an unusual comet impact site. The adventure follows the crew members through the mission as it morphs into a mysterious and traumatic ordeal, and the conspiracies and conspiracies which follow them back on Earth after the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major characters are very compelling and my connection to the them continued to grow stronger as the plot expanded and the dangers of the adventure deepened. I found myself anxious and personally invested in the jeopardy that the characters faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pacing of the plot shows the patience of a seasoned storyteller, keeping us in the action and also giving the reader time to rest and invest in the characters. The universe that\u2019s set in motion by this story is compelling. I can see how the series has a lot of room to expand and become even more exciting as the future novels come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This novel is a wonderful read on its own, and ends with it\u2019s own satisfying conclusion, but I anxiously await Dell\u2019s future novels in this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grave of the Gods is set in a current-day hard science fiction universe, which then takes you into an adventure of humanity\u2019s first real contact with advanced alien civilizations \u2013 an amazing, full-length novel by new author Alan K. Dell. It\u2019s wonderful to find a great page-turner from a new writer. The deeper … Continue reading “Review \u2013 From the Grave of the Gods”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}