Wherever Seeds May Fall by Peter Cawdron Book Review

 Whereever Seeds May Fall 

(Seeds #1)

By Peter Cawdron 

Published Year: 2021

Page Count: 360 pages 

Medium Used: Kindle Scribe 

Genre : Science Fiction, First Contact, Aliens, Horror, 2025-read. 

Rating : 3.5/5 

For the most part, this books is suspenseful and intriguing. Then there are some parts where it felt dragging and drawling. Reading near 60-70 percent, this book managed to put me to sleep multiple times. But I trudged through. This book is about a first contact with an alien race. An alien object is identified and a plethora of reactions erupt among humans. Some countries make hostile overtures while others prepare for safe and friendly connection. Conspiracy theories flourish and crazy ideas are bounced off of people from all sides. I thought a few redundant characters like Jorge and Veronica are added .. maybe to give on the ground reality but it didn't add any new information to that already known. Kath's character is given more importance than the president of United States and that felt uncanny,off. The president has become a bit of a farcical character, toeing the lines .. perhaps that's how a real president is too .. I just didn't like it.

Alien object is identified and they extrapolate that it must have been traveling in space for over fifteen thousand years to come to Earth from a far off system. It has been using major gas giants like Saturn, Jupiter to break its speed. On its way to rendezvous with earth, it must pass through Earth's and Venus's atmospheres once in its speed breaking maneuver and come back to Earth at a future point for contact. While traveling through the atmosphere, it disables all the nuclear weapons on earth - my question: how can it do that all across the planet and not just those on its path? How did it do so by using the neutrinos that are already abundantly present around us? I felt the author raised these questions himself succinctly but didn't answer them. Instead of waiting for the alien vehicle to come back, the US sends a probe with the main characters - Kath, Nolan and Nikki - into space to make first contact. Why? How did Kath conclude the true nature of the alien species when everyone is at a loss of understanding? So the astronauts figure out the motive behind the contact and let the earth know. Earth sends a nuclear detonator onto the alien vehicle which dismantles them..for the moment. Question: While passing through the planet atmospheres, the vehicle has shown its resilience when handling hundreds of megatonnes  of heat .. how did it soften and get destroyed now? 

Thw narration is a bit amateurish perhaps. Most of my questions, I am sure, could have been answered. But as I pick the next book, I am left with more questions than answers.