Connor's Gambit

By: Zevie Gottlieb

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Brad Johnson is the lone witness to a UFO sighting. The sighting, while odd in itself, is not the only incident that occurs that evening. The incident is followed up with the alien targeting him and his family.

The firefight with the alien destroys everything Brad thought he knew about his family and pulls him into an intergalactic battle between two space faring aliens. Brad quickly finds himself leaving Earth struggling to understand his role with the aliens on both sides of the conflict. One group threatens Earth's security, the other group wants something from him.

All Brad wants to do is to survive and return home to his family, but not until he embarks on the greatest adventure of his life.

©2018 Zevie Gottlieb (P)2018 Podium Audio

Great fun from start to finish.

Connor’ Gambit was a ton of fun listening to from start to finish. I’ll be honest, having never read a scifi book beforehand, Connor’s Gambit may have made me a convert. I really can hardly wait for Z Gottlieb’s sequel. The book had a few unexpected twists and while I soon knew that the book’s title would have an important part by the end of the book, I couldn’t guess the ending. So to sum it up — ‘black hole’, a ‘lucky blanket’, ‘intuition’, and an ‘AI dragon’ basically sums everything up. Great family friendly read, that spares us from blood and violence. Very highly recommend.

Now this is a great book!

I loved the story and the narrator brought the characters to life. I can’t wait for more from the author and narrator.

Good story concept, needs more development

I enjoyed the overall story idea and even the character ideas. Everyone sounded to much alike throughout the story, especially the aliens. Everyone is always trying to talk to every possible interpretation of what they are saying and often points are brought up by characters that are inconsistent with the events going on.

While in the middle of a military situation who is going to be talking long-term strategy concerning the personal needs of their assistant? Some physical descriptions of things seem to change through the story also.

"At this time"

I would buy a sequel if there is one.

All the characters keep saying "at this time" and it was kind of weird and distracting.

Aside from that, the story is ok. It's definitely written for a young audience and the characters and situations feel flat. Still it was entertaining enough and I got through the whole thing but the author has a long way to go before she can compete with the likes of LeGuin or Czerneda.