Understanding the Stars

De: Xela Culletto

Narrado por: Lori Prince

Between her father’s terminal disease, high school graduation, and a job delivering pizza, Alexandra Blackwood's life is complicated enough. But when she leaves on another routine delivery and meets Ronan, a handsome stranger with an alien-entangled past, life goes from complicated to perilous. He warns that she’s been the unwitting victim of an alien experiment gone wrong and sets out to help her escape looming abduction, and maybe win her heart.

©2017 Xela Culletto (P)2017 Xela Culletto

Interesting take on aliens

I have been a fan of sci fi, but more so fantasy for a long time I have seen many different takes on aliens and this one is quite interesting. What if they watched us through an implant, but ended up caring for us through this watching. They want to protect us from another set of aliens that wanted to use us for ill.

Good Pacing, Entertaining Read

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I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

I was surprised by the fast pace nature of the book. The pacing didn't take away from the enjoyment of the overall story. The narrator was spot on with the emotional side.

Outer-Space Comes Home

I loved the fast paced actiony feel to this story. Everything that Alexandra and Ronan experienced and the whirlwind feel to the story is great. I've always wondered what alien life forms are like and the way this shows them is really awesome, and yet they are complete jerks. I know when we finally meet them there will e some like this, but there's gotta be nice ones out there somewhere. Then there's Lori's performance and man did she do an amazing job. I loved listening to her narrate this story and all the different voices she used and all the emotions she conveyed was just pure genius.

A very good alien love story

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I liked this listen right away. The narrator was the perfect choice for this material. The main character, Alex, is a teenager on the verge of adulthood. The narrator never lost that delicate balance throughout all of the alien storyline.

Speaking of, what a unique take on aliens and alien invasions. Alex started doing some dumb things, all for a good cause, but I kept rooting for her. Well, humans.

I liked the love story. Everybody should have a Ronan in their corner, alien or not. This listen is probably not for everybody but I enjoyed it.

Mostly an YA romance story with Sci-Fi base.

I had received this book for free from the author / narrator / publisher and I'm providing an unbiased review for this book.

From the cover and synopsis provided for this book, it looked like an young adult romance book. And it mostly is. It just has a Sci-Fi base. That said, the story is fast paced and the narrator does a good job of expressing the emotions. The scenes between Alexandra and her father are specially emotional.