H.A.L.F.: ORIGINS (H.A.L.F. #3) by Natalie Wright

What would you do if aliens came to earth and spread a virus across the land?  The politicians decide to lie and call it a terrorist attack.  Not that that's better but at least it won't cause world panic.  However, it's time for the world to panic.  Life as we know may be over if someone doesn't stop them...

The author shared a copy of this book with me for review (thank you).  It is being published today.  If you haven't read the others in this series, you should.  It will explain some references in the story.

Everyone is still on the run.  Tex and Erika are together in one location and Jack and Anna in another.  Tex and Erika don't get along as well as they could because they both like to give orders, not take them.  After some ugly experiences in escaping, they head for Erika's aunt's home.  She's a park ranger that lives in New Mexico and maybe they can hide there.  When they get there, Tex gets very ill.  Her aunt takes him to an Indian shaman and the tribe works on helping him heal.  It's frustrating to wait and see if he survives.  He does but her aunt has brought in the sheriff and some feds because she thinks Tex is dangerous.  How dangerous, she doesn't know.  They negotiate for some time.  Tex is on a mission to save the world.

In the meantime, Jack is trying to take down the "Makers".  They are using genetic breeding to bring better citizens into their world. They have a built a city below ground and intend to hide there from the aliens.  

Between the fights on earth, two groups of aliens coming to earth, and only one hope for a savior, it's still a fight to the end over the fate of earth.  The ending ties things together but it made me a bit sad.  Earth will survive but there a lot of pieces to pick up after this alien war.

H.A.L.F.: The Makers by Natalie Wright

Could you go to an alien world and fit in? Would you like to be used as a test subject for the gray ones?  What's worse, your boyfriend got left behind.  What hope do you have for survival?  This author gives us a story that answers some of those questions.

The author and Goddess Fish Blog Tours gave me a copy of this book to read for review (thank you).  You can find a copy on Amazon now.

Erika is seventeen and is learning about love.  She has a special relationship with Tex, a hybrid human and robot.  She loves Jack who got left behind.  And she appreciates Ian, another male friend.  When she regains consciousness after the kidnapping, she is in a dark place and unable to move.  She eventually realizes that Ian is there.  But Tex and the doctor who created him are not.  They're all prisoners and the jailer is another gray one but much smaller and part human.  It only does what it's told.  It has no choice.

This is a complex sci fi story with lots of different components.  They've been taken into the future through time travel.  The aliens inject them with a virus that can kill them.  They give Erika the antidote but not Ian.  So her first quest is to get the medicine before Ian dies.

While she's working on that, the queen of the grays is working on Tex.  She wants him for new breeding stock.  He desires her sexually and she shows him how they connect telepathically and have a hive mentality.  If he joins her, he'll be revered as her mate and will be part of their community.  But he's been with humans for a long time and he's confused.

Jack is back on earth fighting to release the military soldier who ordered his death.  Life is complicated on earth, too.  

This is a busy story with multiple plots that keeps you reading.  This is the second in this series I've read so far and I haven't been disappointed with either.  I hope the next will tie the story up, but there's more danger coming.  This earth of the future is very dangerous from its own occupants to the predators in space...

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