Contact

Alien Invasion, Book 2

By: Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Find the missing. Fear the found.

Three months have passed since the aliens' arrival, but little has changed in the skies. Motherships still hover, impervious to attack and communication. Spherical shuttles ferry about with unclear intentions. But the abductions of select humans have ended, and most of those taken have been returned - dazed, incoherent, and prophesying glory or doom, but home where they belong.

Still, nine seemingly unconnected people remain missing.

Trapped in their besieged bunker outside Vail, Piper, Trevor, Lila, and Heather wait for one.

All of this has happened before....

For his entire life, Benjamin Bannister has sought the connections uniting the planet's ancient wonders. And for years he's pursued evidence that extraterrestrial life isn't new to Earth. For years he was dismissed as a fool. Now the spheres have arrived, and Benjamin has found vindication...along with troubling theories. His research facility rests on a paranormal hotspot in Moab, Utah - but Vail, Colorado is where his interests lie. He's sent an emissary to Meyer Dempsey's ranch to find out what makes the Missing Nine so special to the planet's invaders. What news will those nine bring when they return? And what, as the motherships again move like pieces finding positions on a chessboard, will happen next?

And...it will all happen again.

Vail and Moab, Moab and Vail - two epicenters in the cold alien war. The locations' fates seem somehow intertwined as Earth's clock ticks toward midnight. The roads and communications have been closed, but now it seems that the planet's future might depend on a journey from one to the other, no matter the cost. Humanity must find the value of those who have been taken...or become mere fossil evidence for future archaeologists to puzzle over.

©2015 Sean Platt; 2015 Johnny B. Truant (P)2016 Podium Publishing

Loved it! This should be a movie!

I rarely say that! I couldn't stop listening. The only drawback - it's too short

Ray Porter was the ONLY good thing about this book

ugh, I was so looking forward to this book as I enjoyed the first but the story just stalled and seemed to drag on and on. I did NOT enjoy this book. I kept expecting it to take a turn and start getting better and it never did. Very disappointing, I will not be listening to the third.

In Book 2 and still exciting enough to continue on

So far the story is keeping me interested. There sure are plenty of characters to follow in this book.

Great Follow On

I couldn't stop listening... not the most insightful or original, but oooohhhh so much fun!

Great narrator; crappy story

I think two stars for the story is a generous rating. I'll need to grab a net to capture my brain as it spent quite a bit of time wandering while I listened to this second installment in the Alien Invasion series. I found the first book engaging and eagerly awaited the release of the second installment in audio format. I feel my Audible credit was wasted on this mostly-boring book where everyone seems to be holding their breath and spinning their wheels and where precious little actually happens. Book minus Meyer Dempsey = a big fat MEH. I expected interesting things to happen in Moab, but the plot line just didn't deliver. Will I stick with this clan for the third and final installment? Probably not.

Vague and confusing

The entire story is filled with holes. There’s no description of the aliens. There’s just no details about anything. Time lines skip forward and we’re supposed to be up to speed from three months ago? Just stupid writing. Again, Ray Porter salvages a horrible book. Not continuing this series after 2. Would have to suffer through Kevin Pierce for the last two books anyway.

Postapocalypse meets aliens

I have never read a book like this one. And I’m loving it. I am binge reading it. 

Wait....what just happened???

While the first book laid a lot of ground work on personalities and could be slow going, Contact picks up speed with an effortless touch of twists to make you want just 5 five more minutes of story time -- no matter how late it is! The right balance of surprise, but not over the top unbelievable. A really enjoyable story. And if you're not listening to Ray Porter read it to you, you are really missing out!!

Nothing matters

I read Invasion and Contact but will not continue with this series.

First, Ray Porter is fantastic as always. First rate narration.

I was intrigued by Invasion and hoped the story and characters would start to unfold in Contact. Unfortunately it turned into page after page of filler with no real outcome. In almost every case, the actions of the main characters had no impact on the resolution.

It leaves my feeling that nothing is ever accomplished and very unsatisfied.

waiting for something to happen

What about Ray Porter’s performance did you like?

awesome

Could you see Contact being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

never

Any additional comments?

Solid concept for a story but could not get past the fact that nothing happens, ever. Hours of listening to characters describe their feelings about each other made me want to stab myself in the eye with a sharp stick.