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Review by zeldasideas -- Trinity's Fall by PA Vasey
[Following is a volunteer review of "Trinity's Fall" by PA Vasey.]
The Vu-Hak, a group of extraterrestrial terrorists, takes control of the earth. They prey on beings who fail to develop into a more advanced civilization. Trinity's Fall is the story of how a group of FBI agents opposes them.
The story starts with Cain, who is one of the Vu-Hak, telling the FBI that the Vu-Hak have landed on this planet. The FBI is searching for Cain's alter ego, Adam Benedict, and as part of this process, has sent special agent Peter Navarro to gather information from Kate Morgan, a physician who befriended Benedict. The only problem with this, however, is that Morgan has amnesia. She is brought to her senses by FBI agent Colleen Stillman, who hypnotizes Morgan into remembering who she is. At Arlington National Cemetery, Morgan regains consciousness. After she and Stillman return to her apartment, they fend off an attack by Navarro, who has become possessed by the Vu-Hak. This leads to a further scene where Kate becomes aware of her supersensory powers, and as she and Stillman flee the scene of the crime, they must defend themselves against the charge that they murdered Navarro, when in fact they killed in self-defense.
As events begin to spiral out of control, Morgan, Stillman, and various other FBI agents listen to a tape in which Cain tells them that he has come to earth to face off with the Vu-Hak. At the same time, he alludes to a possible form of assistance that will come from his companion Adam Benedict, who is still alive but at large. Determining that Cain is at the South Pole, the agents race to get to him before any further disaster can befall Washington, but they are too late. The president's Special Forces have already turned against him, and Kate Morgan has been shot to death. Kate awakens in a biogenetic spaceship, and she must now race against time, with Benedict, to combat the threat to all humankind.
Trinity's Fall (2019) is P. A. Vasey's sequel to Trinity's Legacy (2019). The anticipated third book in the series, Trinity's Extinction, is scheduled for release later this year. While the first book discusses the scientific background to the intergalactic war, the second delves into the characters' motives and associates the various groups who oppose the attack. It meets all the criteria for a successful sequel in that it builds upon the first story and develops the characters from the first book in a way that surprises us and develops our interest in the next.
I thought the narrator, Kate Morgan, was a brilliant character. She starts out fearful and uncertain of herself but by the middle of the book becomes more forceful. The author uses the hypnagogic state (the period prior to sleep) to develop his characters. In the scene where Morgan is waking up on the bio-ship after her death, she dreams about her daughter who had been murdered at the emergency room at the hospital where she worked. Developing into more of an archetypal savior, Morgan asks the little girl whether they should have been more caring about each other and for those around them. Kate often sees herself morph into men, women, and machines, giving her a kind of gender fluidity that develops her strength.
Another strength of this book is the way in which the author develops the notion that the demimonde (the small world within the larger world) can have a powerful influence on events. This is seen in the struggle for the emergence of Adam Benedict and his companion Cain, two otherworldly characters who take on greater power as warriors in this book. Benedict is a part-human, part-machine construct who gave up his human existence to stop the Vu-Hak from attacking earth by journeying through the Los Alamos wormhole at the Trinity Deus site which detonated the first a-bomb. He is a type of pangendered being who can simultaneously change gender and morph into all conceivable genders. He uses his disembodied consciousness to reach Kate telepathically and becomes, in the words of Adam Ant, a "dandy of the underworld." He is both a gifted friend of all humanity (wherever they may be) and a rival of the Vu-Hak culture that spurned him.
This book is well written and contains many suspenseful scenes. It contained a moderately high level of violence, which some sci-fi fans will find to be highly entertaining. I was less attracted to the scenes where the military is attacking the aliens, and I wished the author would have made the conflict between the characters more direct and realistic. For instance, the inciting conflict between Navarro and the two women seems underdeveloped because Navarro is less thought through than the other characters. I also thought that the scene between Cain and the FBI needed a clearer focus. It seemed implausible that the FBI was willing to forgive Cain for his Vu-Hak ties when it would have seemed clearer to suggest that he was their prisoner.
This fast-paced thriller will delight science fiction readers of all ages. This book is more highly specialized in its use of scientific vocabulary and contains a number of scientific inventions, including a wormhole which splits particles with Hawking radiation, a spaceship constructed out of DNA, and a lunar cave laboratory, among others. It was truly a delight to read. I award it 4 out of 4 stars for its creative insight.
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Trinity's Fall
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The Vu-Hak, a group of extraterrestrial terrorists, takes control of the earth. They prey on beings who fail to develop into a more advanced civilization. Trinity's Fall is the story of how a group of FBI agents opposes them.
The story starts with Cain, who is one of the Vu-Hak, telling the FBI that the Vu-Hak have landed on this planet. The FBI is searching for Cain's alter ego, Adam Benedict, and as part of this process, has sent special agent Peter Navarro to gather information from Kate Morgan, a physician who befriended Benedict. The only problem with this, however, is that Morgan has amnesia. She is brought to her senses by FBI agent Colleen Stillman, who hypnotizes Morgan into remembering who she is. At Arlington National Cemetery, Morgan regains consciousness. After she and Stillman return to her apartment, they fend off an attack by Navarro, who has become possessed by the Vu-Hak. This leads to a further scene where Kate becomes aware of her supersensory powers, and as she and Stillman flee the scene of the crime, they must defend themselves against the charge that they murdered Navarro, when in fact they killed in self-defense.
As events begin to spiral out of control, Morgan, Stillman, and various other FBI agents listen to a tape in which Cain tells them that he has come to earth to face off with the Vu-Hak. At the same time, he alludes to a possible form of assistance that will come from his companion Adam Benedict, who is still alive but at large. Determining that Cain is at the South Pole, the agents race to get to him before any further disaster can befall Washington, but they are too late. The president's Special Forces have already turned against him, and Kate Morgan has been shot to death. Kate awakens in a biogenetic spaceship, and she must now race against time, with Benedict, to combat the threat to all humankind.
Trinity's Fall (2019) is P. A. Vasey's sequel to Trinity's Legacy (2019). The anticipated third book in the series, Trinity's Extinction, is scheduled for release later this year. While the first book discusses the scientific background to the intergalactic war, the second delves into the characters' motives and associates the various groups who oppose the attack. It meets all the criteria for a successful sequel in that it builds upon the first story and develops the characters from the first book in a way that surprises us and develops our interest in the next.
I thought the narrator, Kate Morgan, was a brilliant character. She starts out fearful and uncertain of herself but by the middle of the book becomes more forceful. The author uses the hypnagogic state (the period prior to sleep) to develop his characters. In the scene where Morgan is waking up on the bio-ship after her death, she dreams about her daughter who had been murdered at the emergency room at the hospital where she worked. Developing into more of an archetypal savior, Morgan asks the little girl whether they should have been more caring about each other and for those around them. Kate often sees herself morph into men, women, and machines, giving her a kind of gender fluidity that develops her strength.
Another strength of this book is the way in which the author develops the notion that the demimonde (the small world within the larger world) can have a powerful influence on events. This is seen in the struggle for the emergence of Adam Benedict and his companion Cain, two otherworldly characters who take on greater power as warriors in this book. Benedict is a part-human, part-machine construct who gave up his human existence to stop the Vu-Hak from attacking earth by journeying through the Los Alamos wormhole at the Trinity Deus site which detonated the first a-bomb. He is a type of pangendered being who can simultaneously change gender and morph into all conceivable genders. He uses his disembodied consciousness to reach Kate telepathically and becomes, in the words of Adam Ant, a "dandy of the underworld." He is both a gifted friend of all humanity (wherever they may be) and a rival of the Vu-Hak culture that spurned him.
This book is well written and contains many suspenseful scenes. It contained a moderately high level of violence, which some sci-fi fans will find to be highly entertaining. I was less attracted to the scenes where the military is attacking the aliens, and I wished the author would have made the conflict between the characters more direct and realistic. For instance, the inciting conflict between Navarro and the two women seems underdeveloped because Navarro is less thought through than the other characters. I also thought that the scene between Cain and the FBI needed a clearer focus. It seemed implausible that the FBI was willing to forgive Cain for his Vu-Hak ties when it would have seemed clearer to suggest that he was their prisoner.
This fast-paced thriller will delight science fiction readers of all ages. This book is more highly specialized in its use of scientific vocabulary and contains a number of scientific inventions, including a wormhole which splits particles with Hawking radiation, a spaceship constructed out of DNA, and a lunar cave laboratory, among others. It was truly a delight to read. I award it 4 out of 4 stars for its creative insight.
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Trinity's Fall
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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