The Reply (Area 51 Book 2)

This is the third in a lengthy but compelling series about good old Area 51 - where would sci-fi authors, conspiracy theorists and UFO freaks be without it? The novels are well researched, the writing adequate, if not great, and the plot is well-paced, imaginative and absorbing, if somewhat daft in places. I can more readily believe in an alien super-race having populated the Earth 10,000 years ago than the US government coming clean about a massive and damaging cover-up which resulted from it. And a freelance reporter being a close confidante of those steering the outcome - that is the sort of naivety which destroys plots!It certainly doesn't pay to leave one of the books alone for too long, as there are so many different scenes of action, with new characters being introduced almost every chapter, it's really easy to lose track. This isn't helped (in the Kindle edition, anyway) by the author disconcertingly switching from one scene to another between paragraphs, with no break in between - that really throws you off kilter!Nevertheless, it's a rattling good yarn and well worth reading.

This book was great, as I hoped it would be, however, it did not drag me to bed every night like the #1 book in the series.It was good read and followed along the same lines as one would hope. Again I look forward to reading the next one, I have bought 5x books in the series, but will probably keep the the others for my summer holiday (Xmas now).If you like Sci-Fi you will not be making a bad purchase, but book #1 first.The author has a good way of describing things and you read the book reading into the details and can not help but think of the things that have happened or should I say reported to be true and ask yourself "is this the truth ?"

Not up to the standard of the first book, there is a feeling of the book being an interlude between the significant events of the first book and another book I've yet to read which will, no doubt, involve a battle between actual aliens and humanity, rather than mankind just dealing with the technology they left behind on their last visits.There's a certain amount of rehashing of plot devices from the previous book, as well as the death of important characters written in such a way that leads the reader to suspect that eventually they may not be as unwell as first feared. And many of the surviving characters remain as paper-thin as in the first book, being little more than place-holders for the requisite members of the world's governments and military forces that would be involved in the scenarios used in the book.The Area 51 books are still a fun read, however, and the world the author has created is plausible within the rules of the genre.

I read this after the previous book in the series, Area 51 whoch I thought was excellent. This one seemed to take a long time to build and wasn't as gripping. I would rather have had less time on getting to the Mars part and more on its intrigue. I suspect we will be getting more of this in the enxt book. A good read none the less and I feel I have found an author of SciFi that has plausable stories on ET (not the film) storylines.I can almost belive the stories, hey - they would explain a lot

I have to admit I was a bit hesitant about buying the Kindle version of this book due to the comments left by other reviewers regarding the over use of hyphens which I think is a throwback from the paper version of the book. However it looks like the author or Amazon has taken notice, I'm now half way through the book and not a hyphen in sight. The story itself pretty much follows on from where book one left off, fast moving, griping and a real page turner. I will certainly be purchasing the remainder of the series.

There are approximately 4 hyphenated words on every page.So I estimate about 1200 hyp-hens in the bo-ok tha-t sh-ould not be there.If Amazon want proof readers I will do it for a copy of the book.That has to be better than the current method - not bothering.Tha aside a great follow on.

Personally I did not enjoy this as much as the first book in the series, probably because I read it straight afterwards. It's still very good and I shall probably return to the series some time in the future but like all multi-part sagas, I find it is starting to get a little tedious.

The second Area51 novel takes off at the same breathtaking pace as the first. Our heroes face New challenges and new dangers as the technology awakened in book one comes to life. Blending fact and fiction with a compelling storyline about what might be Earth' s first encounter with aliens, Mayer again punches all the right buttons. We get somewhere answers, but we get just as many questions to find the new answers for in book three.