The Children of Tomorrow

This Alien Earth, Book 3

By: Paul Antony Jones, Robert Greenberger

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

The race is on....

Meredith Gale has to make contact with the Architect before the Adversary’s agent, the transformed Abernathy, reaches her and ruins the millennia of planning designed to save the Earth.

In order to accomplish this, she and her ragtag band of friends have to unify the scattered survivors of the multiverse to oppose the Adversary. Along the way, new allies will be made while new opponents do their best to stop her.

If she fails, not only will the last of humanity be wiped away, but the Earth won't survive the collapse of the universe.

All the questions get answered in this final installment of the acclaimed This Alien Earth series.

©2020 Aethon Books (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

a so so ending.

too many continuity errors that Differ from the first two books. also dumped the silly character logic. my prayers and condolences go to the author's family for their Loss, but I think the Ghost Rider should have paid more attention to details from the first two books

New author finishes the series

With notes from the original author, Robert Greenberger does an excellent job in keeping characters personality and tone in line with the first two books. However, I found it very disappointing the entire series overall mysteries "why are we here?" "who is the adversary?" "who is the architect?" is explained all at once exposition style within one chapter midway through the book. It felt as though the original author's outline notes for book 3 were all delivered as one complete chapter delivered as a speech from one character, rather than being developed into a flowing storyline where the listener can feel part of the discovery process. This isn't a reason to avoid this book or the series overall, but it could have been so much better without exposition and more development of the story.

Amazing

I loved this series and gobbled it up. Just couldn't put it down!
Also great performance.
Recommended all around.

Enjoyable story and finale

I was sorry to hear the original author had passed, but was happy he was able to leave enough of the final book to finish the story. The author of the final story did a seamless job integrating with the first two books. Interesting story, would definitely recommend taking the journey!

Definitely fell off from the first 2

I understand the author passed and someone completed the series. There were too many rushed scenes to wrap up. A series like this could have been 5 books easily. I enjoyed the first two more. Switching out the name of the spaceship from Shining Way to Shining Light was a major editorial Faux pax. And also, one of the last minutes in the book had jerky being reinvented for a second time in the series.

not a good ending

enjoyed the series overall but the last book seemed rushed and found wanting. anticlimactic is a generous way to put it.

Good but story needed a bit more

This was the last of 3 books. The story in general was ok. It got a bit weak toward the end.

"I really don't like this, not one bit" -Meredith

The first 2 books were wonderful. This one was just...eh. The title of my review is a quote from the book that is used over and over again. I got it the first time, no need to repeat so many times.

Many of the encounters with the Adversaries minuons seemed the be poorly thought out and either anti climatic, very predictable, outright boring or all 3 combined.

The book was good in the way that it completed the story of the first two books, but it was nowhere near as good as the first two.

The biggest issues I had with this book are below.

The narrator was good, but there were times when she was narrating Meredith using Cho's voice. it could get a bit confusing. Other than that, the narrator did a great job.

WARNING: SORTA SPOILERS BELOW




About half way through, maybe more, it is explained how the Architect built the collectors and began its plan. Then towards the end, the Architect suddenly needs the help of human hands? This seems like a huge mistake. How could the Architect have done all that it did before bringing 2 billion people to the version of earth and then suddenly be next to useless and NEED the help of humans to complete its mission?

The collectors. There's a bunch of them and they are all designed the same way. Theybhave living spaces in them as well as other amenities, why are the 2 billion not taking up residence in them? It doesnt make since to create new habitats from scratch when these collectors are readily available and contain everything they need to start over. Sure, eventually they may need to expand and venture out to build additions to the collectors, but starting that way seems like a huge waste of time.

The finale battle with the Adversarie was flat out lame. The author(s) even thought so as they wrote it into the book with Meredith saying it was anticlimactic. You know you're not trying very hard when you write it into the story that way.

Neat Premise. Meh Delivery. Really Good Narration.

The overall story is compelling. I enjoyed the idea that birthed this story. It's fun to imagine the possibilities within the world created by Paul Anthony Jones. The problem throughout the series is the illogical, improbable, and sometimes frustrating interactions and reactions from the characters. The motivations were somewhat fuzzy, and the main character was ridiculously unbelievable as any kind of leader. The story is filled with seemingly competent characters that could/should have been better choices as leaders. There is no world I can imagine that the main character displayed enough charisma or competence to engender any kind of natural subordination to her leadership by the characters, The reveal in the end about why she is so important is just...laughable...and nothing about it is a reason to naturally look to her for any kind of leadership. The described fight scenes are REALLY bad at times. I mean, the author screams out an involved Tolkien quote at the height of a battle...WHAT?!?! The characters never run out of bullets. The bad guys are given abilities they don't use when it really would make sense for them to do so. The actions of the bad guy makes no sense. I mean his motivations are childish and I get them. I've seen it before in better written books.,,but...the way the Adversary goes about accomplishing their plan...it just doesn't compute. I was frustrated throughout the story, but in the author's defense, I did want to see how things wrapped up. So...There is that. Kate Reading is, as always, fantabulous and probably saves this story from being a worse experience than it was. I'm glad I made it through all this. I will not look back on it with fondness.

Character driven trilogy

The trilogy has aspects I’ve never seen pulled together before - multiverse- uniquely different earths-famous historical figures-master AIs-but, at heart, these books are character driven- and some of them are certainly characters! I’m glad I got to know them. Kate Reading is one of the finest narrators in the business. I have no idea how she can modulate her voice specific to so many characters. Kind of regret that I’m finished with them….