All of the characters were so different and really stood out as the point of view changed between them and I began to like them for who they were. Light Years from Home by Mike Chen was different than I expected it to be with the family’s issue being more in the forefront that the science fiction side but I still enjoyed the book despite the lack of sci-fi I expected. When Evie gets a sign that something is happening near home Kass is not happy to have her back but suddenly Jakob has also returned to their lives different that he had been. Kass and Evie coped in very different way with Kass caring for their mother while Evie went off to work with a group studying alien life herself.

Needless to say the Shao family struggled after that camping trip with Jakob never found and their father searching for any proof of aliens and where his son had gone until he died. A few days later their father was found claiming to have been abducted by aliens. Something happened that night and Kass and Evie couldn’t find their brother or father triggering a huge search. The story in Light Years from Home is one that is told from multiple points of view and some flashes back to what happened to the characters in the past.įifteen years ago siblings Kass, Evie and Jakob had been camping with their father when the girls had separated from Jakob and their dad. Light Years from Home by Mike Chen is a standalone science fiction fantasy mixed with family drama. The perfect combination of action, imagination and heart, Light Years From Home is a touching drama about a challenge as difficult as saving the galaxy: making peace with your family…and yourself. Because the FBI is after Jakob, and if their brother is telling the truth, possibly an entire space armada, too. If the family is going to come together to help Jakob, then Kass and Evie are going to have to fix their issues, and fast. He's different-older, stranger, and talking of an intergalactic war-but the tensions between the siblings haven't changed at all. When Evie's UFO network uncovers a new event, she goes to investigate. Evie traded academics to pursue alien conspiracy theories, always looking for Jakob.

Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. The women dealt with it very differently. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused-and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens.

Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished.

Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials.Įvie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms.

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