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I usually want a story to feel, like an author knows where they are going. It should be tight because it's a short story. This story felt like a stones skipping across water, and the action scenes were not very suspenseful. After all, this is an alien race, that has wiped off a huge number of humans without much more than a blinking of an eye. It should have suspense locked into a search for a son. Some of the story feels disjointed and scenes along with some pages seemed like after thoughts or omissions. I think a novel might give a better picture of the story, but action is called for in some of the pages, along with continuity of the story. A twenty-five year old Nora and her immediate coherts Jule and Gordon use assistance while waiting to escape in a building from a guy named Joe. He is an alien Merus and turns out to be not on side of his alien side. The three of them along with more rebels end up fighting more aliens to locate her son Ray. The story meanders a lot in the middle, and that along with an ending to bring back someone lost. It seemed too convenient a wrap-up to me. I hope her other stories are plotted better, but most of her writing style was ok, but a little choppy. I will check out her other efforts, and I hope a less contrived and more likeli-hood probabilites in the story-line to the situations.


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Nora Sun eBook MS Fowle Reviews

Well, Mrs. Fowle did it again. Another great read. She is definitely an up and coming author. One worth watching.
In Nora's Sun, M. S. Fowle introduces us to a post invasion Earth, and one woman's quest to find her son using only visions she sees in dreams. Fowle gives us a taste of an interesting world, but leaves us hungering for substance in some key areas.

My favorite concept in this story is the idea of a delayed invasion, that aliens seed themselves in our world, and don't awake to conquer for 25 years. Until the invasion is announced, humans and aliens are indistinguishable and unaware of their distinct origins or powers. How would you react if you thought of yourself as human, and were told that you were actually part of an army sent to conquer humanity. Whose side would you be on?

Fowle explores this question through the character of Joe, an unlikely ally of Nora and her little splinter cell. He's a merus (the aliens in this story) with a mimick asset, a shape-shifter, able to assume any appearance. How he comes to first help this group is largely unexplained, Nora finds him because she knows it's the way she should go, and he decides to help her without much question. Once his origin is revealed he is coerced at gunpoint to continue on the journey, though doesn't make any particular attempts to escape, and in fact is journeying for his own agenda, finding his true face.

Joe plays the role of the sympathetic stranger, making the connections as to the source of Nora's visions and her son's and husband's true origins, as well as providing a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. Here the length of this story works against it. The relationship of Nora and Joe moves too quickly from distrust to acceptance and seems to skip moments and scenes in between. In fact, even though Joe is one of the invading aliens, Nora seems to accept him pretty much from the start, showing hesitation only when he pulls out her husband's face and can't explain how he knows it.

Nora's mission to save her son is a compelling one, even though it is being done to the exclusion of the larger fight against the invaders. The story is told in first person perspective, and because of this sometimes Nora's actions seem a little too knowing, a little too perfect and correct. She always knows what to do, where to go. You never really get a sense that she's in any danger, if for no other reason than she's alive to tell you the tale. First person narratives are tricky in this regard, and I think the story would have been better served by an external narrator.

When Nora is found by a larger rebellion it turns out they have been looking for her for some time and have decided to save her son as a symbol for the coming rebellion. While I like the idea of a single heroine being the inspiration for a rebellion, the introduction of this army seems only to serve the purpose of how Nora will get enough firepower to get inside this facility in the first place. Frankly, an all-out military assault wasn't what I was expecting, and I think a more personal and stealthy infilitration would have been a more interesting conclusion. This army would work under the right set of circumstances, but the story's length again prevented the reader from getting a sense this was coming, or even was a plausible possibility in this world.

I do appreciate Nora's thinking about the effects her violent course of action might have on her son's opinion of her. Indeed she is willing to kill a great many of her son's own race just to get to him. This point is overshadowed however with a taunting confrontation with one of the researchers in the facility who would have worked as a final adversary if we'd had any reason to care about him before that point. By the end we know so little about what was being done to her son or why, just that Nora was able to get him out.

I loved the world M. S. Fowle created, and despite her flaws Nora is a compelling heroine. There are some great action sequences and one-liners, but overall the plot seems to move too quickly, skipping scenes and opportunities for development that would have made this a more complete work. I'd be interested to see what Fowle's novel works are like, and if she ever revisits the world where the Merus have invaded, I'll be along for the ride.
This was a really good story. I do wish it had been longer. Still, the writing was good and I liked the little bit that was known of the characters. I would recommend this story. Heck, I've already gone to and bought 2 more books from this author.
The perspective that this book gives on an apocalyptic world is fresh and new. I loved the way I got wrapped up in the plot line and even though this isn't my normal genre of book, I could not put it down. An amazing follower to "The First Night" by M.S. Fowle as well. HIghly recommend this to anyone.
First this one is more of a short story than a novelette. Generally I liked it as the premise and setting is good. Nora's kind of post apocalyptic Earth is both original and not that hard to relate to. Still the characters are a bit awkward, their motives being over the top and at the end it started to resemble some Hollywood action B-movies. I would gladly read a more comprehensive story situated in the same world, just feel the characters could be a bit more down to earth.
Nora's Sun is a well written short story that manages to build the characters and story from the first page.

There is most definitely room for a larger story here and I look forward to reading more of Ms Fowle's work!
While I enjoyed this, I did find it a little hard to like the character of Nora until near the end of the story. The story itself was fast-paced, never dragging its heels, and never boring. I did think that things with Joe seemed to move a little too quickly, until the end, when it began to make sense.
I usually want a story to feel, like an author knows where they are going. It should be tight because it's a short story. This story felt like a stones skipping across water, and the action scenes were not very suspenseful. After all, this is an alien race, that has wiped off a huge number of humans without much more than a blinking of an eye. It should have suspense locked into a search for a son. Some of the story feels disjointed and scenes along with some pages seemed like after thoughts or omissions. I think a novel might give a better picture of the story, but action is called for in some of the pages, along with continuity of the story. A twenty-five year old Nora and her immediate coherts Jule and Gordon use assistance while waiting to escape in a building from a guy named Joe. He is an alien Merus and turns out to be not on side of his alien side. The three of them along with more rebels end up fighting more aliens to locate her son Ray. The story meanders a lot in the middle, and that along with an ending to bring back someone lost. It seemed too convenient a wrap-up to me. I hope her other stories are plotted better, but most of her writing style was ok, but a little choppy. I will check out her other efforts, and I hope a less contrived and more likeli-hood probabilites in the story-line to the situations.