Chad Lester

I was slowly drawn into Chad Lester’s world in Titan’s Tears. A world that was not easy to comprehend, but the more I read, the more familiar I became with the characters and the storyline and I do love when an author unfolds the details in a surprising way.

Science fiction and technology…used in a good and an evil way. Titan’s Tears is one of those thought provoking books that makes me ask…Just because we can do it, should we?

Four characters are drawn together on an isolated island off the coast of Alaska. Robots, and a Jurassic Type jungle are not the only things that are dangerous. Treachery and betrayal are around every corner.

Titan’s Tears and the ending didn’t go the way I thought and I do love when an author is able to surprise me. Great job, Chad. The story may have started slow for me, but as I got familiar with the characters and story I got more involved in the characters lives. I began to feel a sense of urgency. Fiction/Reality, sometimes there is a fine line between the two.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Titan’s Tears by Chad Lester.

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An obviously desperate young mother stumbles through the snow to leave her infant daughter at the remote Oregon convent of the Carmelites. Thirty years later, Belle has survived a difficult childhood and now finds herself in the small Alaskan village of Kobuksville. Despite her best efforts, Belle’s job-searching has proven futile.

When she receives a strange offer for a job interview, she is whisked away on a private jet for a meeting with a brilliant scientist, Sophia Eccleston, the chief executive officer of Eccleston Evolution, the company she’d founded. It seems that Sophia needs a nanny for her eight-year-old blind daughter, Juno.

And she needs to fight the hostile takeover of Eccleston Evolution.

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This dystopian science fiction story focuses its terrifying tale on the potential dangers of both technology and Artificial Intelligence. The plot offers readers some unexpected twists as the unfolding narrative reveals some surprising facts.

Strong characters and an inventive plot pull readers into the telling of this near future tale from the outset. As the unfolding story reveals long-held secrets, readers discover the pitfalls of the technology that has been unleashed on humanity.

Readers who enjoy technological thrillers and/or science fiction will find much to appreciate in this intriguing tale.

Recommended.

I received a free copy of this book from Chad Lester and NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
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This novel was pretty good in some ways but needs alittle improvement in others.
The plot itself was nicely done, enough twists to keep you reading with all the characters intertwined by the end of it.
Just the characters themselves felt one sided. I think things were told instead of shown in most cases. Telling us how the character felt rather then showing us through their actions.
But nothing that can't be improved on.
Juno was the one to watch all through the novel and that didnt disappoint in the end, just the ending itself was rather bland.… (more)

Titan’s Tears is an imaginative take on the beginnings of AI’s ascendancy. The near future of the self imposed isolation and insularity of the common people is completely believable. A time when Nanotechnology has been perfected and is changing the fabric of humanity. The possibilities are endless… depending on who’s calling the shots.
Overall the book did a solid job. The chapters were written from the perspective of different characters which added interest. The problem is that I didn’t care about the characters all that much. I was most intrigued by the antagonist and found myself wanting her to succeed. I’m not sure that that was the writer’s intent. Perhaps it was. The use of Nanotechnology was exciting but at some points it was over simplified and bordered on magical. The juxtaposition of the compound and the reserve was unusual but the idea didn’t seem out of place. The scenes in the reserve went a bit long, though. A few too many narrow escapes to be believable. There was definitely enough there to make Titan’s Tears an interesting read but it fell short for me.
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