What might be the most impressive part of FLUENCY is the attention paid to each character, making them not one-note stock characters (there are no Red Shirts here!) but interesting, complicated individuals. The dialog is natural and entirely believable, making it easy to get caught up in the action without being distracted by characters that speak like they’re in a made-for-TV sci-fi flick. Author Jennifer Foehner Wells focuses as much on these details as she does on the stranded Ei’Brai and the space slugs, making Fluency a novel as interested in the complicated history of its characters as it is in fighting bloodthirsty aliens. Aliens are great, but things like good dialog and character development are necessary for a novel to transcend its genre. When writing science fiction, it’s easy to get so caught up in a plot that everything else falls by the wayside. But can she trust this creature that can only speak to her? And what will she do with a crew that’s becoming violent and mutinous? The ship is far from abandoned, however, as Jane begins to communicate telepathically with a creature that insists that the fate of humanity (and beyond) is in her hands. Jane Holloway, an internationally respected linguist, has been asked to act as Earth’s ambassador on a journey to an apparently abandoned spaceship that’s on a collision path with an asteroid.
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