Review of Homecoming: The Unari Experiment Book 1

[Theresa Ammons Pinkston]

[i][Following is a volunteer review of "Homecoming: The Unari Experiment Book 1" by Brian L. Harad.][/i]

[rwc=id412419-125]2 out of 4 stars.[/rwc]How much is a tax-paying United States citizen worth? In Book 1 of [i]Homecoming; The Unari Experiment[/i], we find out. This particular U.S. citizen is actually an alien, but he doesn't know that yet!



President Harry Drummond, his Vice-President, and the highest-ranking general of the United States get together in the near future and make a deal with two alien races allowing them to kidnap a man born and residing in the USA in return for an energy source that's almost limitless. The abducted man's name is Byron Hollington and he's living a fairly normal life. He goes to work, has a wife and three children, shops at Walmart, and detours into a KFC drive-thru to satisfy his cravings.



Byron is an Unari and his new body looks like Pegasus with a horn. His natural mother is the Queen of Unari and she brought him to Earth before he was born. She calls him Thundercloud, supposedly bestowed by a Native American group -- although we never learn what native nation they are. Once the Unari beings have him, they board a Thunerian spacecraft and transform him into what his new race calls an Alicorn.



Thundercloud is extremely resistant to this monumental shift in his life. He starts cursing at almost everyone aboard the ship. He uses the b-word and F-bombs liberally!



This book is a bizarre read. As if showing a movie clip, it starts in the present tense to show the President in the Oval Office contemplating the alien phone call. Then, the author changes to the past tense to explain how the first scene came about. The pacing improves greatly after that and we "see" what is going on in the present tense again.



I'm going to rate Book 1 of [i]Homecoming; The Unari Experiment[/i] with [b]3 out of 4 stars[/b]. I don't have the option of giving it "2.5 stars out of 4" or I would do so. It badly needs an editor to fix several typos and grammatical errors. Plus, I do NOT recommend it for children, teenagers, or sensitive adults! In addition to the foul language, the book ends with a jaw-dropping assault that still bothers me two weeks later. However, I must read the 2nd book just to see what Thundercloud does about that!

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[i]Homecoming: The Unari Experiment Book 1 [/i]
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