Sleepers

Name: Sleepers
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Author: Darcy Pattison
ISBN: 9781629441993

Author: Darcy Pattison

Series: The Blue Planets World series #1

Narrator: David Evan Cunningham

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mims House

Published: 10/26/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Science Fiction Stories, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

THE BLUE PLANETS WORLD SERIES
Earth finally receives a message from space: "You only live on land. Allow us to live in the seas."
Rison will implode soon. They desperately need a new blue planet, a water planet. But Earth is crowded. Will humans be able to open their hearts to an alien race?
SLEEPERS, Book 1"A solid beginning to a trilogy..." Kirkus Reviews
A rogue militia. A diabolical sabotage. Is an alien teen is the only hope for either blue planet?Sleepers is the first book of an exciting science fiction trilogy that forces a dying world to beg for refuge on Earth. A test-tube baby, fifteen-year-old Jake Rose is half human and half alien.
After living with his mother on Rison for most of his life, he finally comes to Earth to live with his human father's grandparents on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. His mother, Dayexi Quad-de is Rison's ambassador to Earth. She's tasked with finding Risonians a new home on Earth in a peaceful manner. Jake accidentally discovers that Earth's elite ELLIS forces are tying to sabotage Mt. Rainier and make it explode so that they can blame it on the Risonian aliens.
Can Jake stop them in time or will they ruin the Risonians chances at a refuge on Earth?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Victoria on July 06, 2017

As in all good fiction and fantasy, Darcy Pattison builds the alien world of Sleepers on scientific and historical facts, even mythology, knowledge that a YA readership would be learning in school. She also touches on many themes in this adventure; the compassion needed to make immigration work, rac......more

Goodreads review by Stillgrowing on April 29, 2019

Wonderful! The main character was very likeable and the world he came from was well created. Their life and cultures believable. The moral and ethical dilemmas discussed from earth’s past correlated with what the Aliens and Earthlings were experiencing in their current timeline. Very interesting disc......more

Goodreads review by Don on June 16, 2019

My Book Review Number 165: This review is on Sleepers, The Blue Planets World, Book 1 by Darcy Pattison. This is the first book I have read by this Sci-Fi author. It is a Sci-Fi Speculative YA suspense story good for any age level. The story opens up with a Great White shark swimming in the Gulf of Me......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 13, 2017

Truly science fiction, Darcy Pattison offers her readers an entertaining education on volcanology, astronomy, and anatomy. The idea of a person with both gills and lungs is fascinating. Mysteries and suspense abound. Why does Blevins hate the Risonians? Why are seals dying in Puget Sound? Are there......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on July 07, 2017

The 14-year-old protagonist Jake Rose is a half-human, half-alien. After living with his mother on planet Rison for most of his life, Jake is sent to his father and in this first book of the series, he comes to live with his human grandparents on Earth. Rison is facing annihilation as a result of wr......more