A Great 5 Star Review from Laura of Fuonlyknew.com: I love books about space travel and other planets. I also love stories with horrific creatures. I found both in Precipice. A large ship is swallowed up in the ocean and it sounds the death knell for Earth. Meanwhile, 55 million miles from Earth, Lieutenant Travis Daniels and his elite team are little more than prisoners. After a FUBAR mission, Travis made a deal to keep his team from a death sentence and they are now on Mars, helping to colonize it. When they aren't mining, they spend most of their time in their cells. "The excitement of being stationed on the fourth planet from the sun has long since worn off." Travis was already on Mars when his wife, Annie, discovers she's pregnant. Since then, he's only seen his son, Logan, twice, and that was on a monitor. When they lose all communication with Earth, and finally do get a transmission, it shows an Earth with deep trenches ripped through it and flashes of strange creatures crawling out of them. Travis has to find a way to get to his family while dealing with a madman that has control over them and the only ship able to get them home. I enjoyed the camaraderie between Travis and his team. Each had their own distinct voice and their own place in the story. Without good secondary characters a story falls flat. Not so with this book. While the situation on Mars is deteriorating, Earth has fallen into ruin. What crawls out of those trenches is terrifying. They are so fast, you barely have time to blink before they're on you. With lizard like skin and jaws of a hell hound, once they get close to you, you're dead. I call them the `dobiegators.' Then there's the big guy. He is so huge he's beyond comprehension. The best description I can give you is the creature from the movie Cloverfield. This thing is so big it crushes buildings, reaching in to grab the people cowering inside. It's one thing after another, both on Earth and on Mars. With Earth overrun and Mars not ready to be colonized yet, these people are between a rock and a hard place. Kevin has written a thrilling, terrifying story with special ops, the end of the world, madmen, creatures from the bowels of Hell, and action galore. When I finished reading Precipice, I said, "Yep, just what I needed." I love my horror and suspense and that's just what I got! Thanks to the author for providing me with a copy for my honest review. http://ift.tt/1HTig3U
by Kevin J. Howard
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