Review: Eviction Earth by T.C. Pannone

Title: Eviction Earth
Author: T.C. Pannone
Genre: Sci-fi, fantasy, adult fiction
Published: Expected publication in 2011
Source: For review, from author

Summary: The moon has been destroyed by an asteroid, and the earth is quickly becoming uninhabitable. The government devises a plan to evacuate earth, and move everyone onto Mars, where they believe life will be sustained. Kal Cyrano and his family are expected to contribute to the mass evacuation by building rockets with most everyone else in preparation for the flight to Mars. However, when heavy earthquakes begin, the plan to leave the planet is quickly made impossible. Kal refuses to sit and wait for the earth to demolish, and attempts to find another means of survival, which he finds, by chance, underground, in a hidden civilization.

My Thoughts: I'm not much of a sci-fi reader, but when T.C. approached me about his book, the premise sounded quite intriguing. One thing you probably don't know about me is that I have a fascination with space and the universe (oh, and dinosaurs too). I was a bit apprehensive about reading this, as I typically think of sci-fi to be quite heavy and hard to read, but I was pleasantly surprised. Eviction Earth was highly accessible to both sci-fi fans and non-fans like myself. It was written in a simple enough manner that I had no issues following the storyline at all. The story was exciting, frightening, and thrilling. I wanted to keep turning the pages to find out what would happen to Kal and his family, and most importantly, planet Earth. It really got me thinking about scary situations like the one that took place in this book. The universe is so unknown and mysterious that we never really know what's happening out there.

The first half of the book was very sci-fi oriented, discussing the moon's demise and the evacuation to Mars, whereas the second half seemed to turn into more of a fantasy novel, with a hidden civilization and strange people inhabiting it. This is T.C. Pannone's first sci-fi novel, so while the writing is nowhere near perfect, it's a fascinating story and a strong debut. This book is not to be missed for fans of sci-fi and fantasy.

My Rating: 3.5/5