Axiom's End Book Reviews

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Fascinating, suspenseful, emotional. This is, easily, one of the best books I’ve read in a long while. I could barely put it down, and, when I had to, it was impossible to stop thinking about. The relationships throughout are spectacular and moving, and they guided the story wonderfully. The political climate Ellis decided to place this in was PERFECT. I can’t think of a premise better than Axiom’s End’s The-‘08-Crash-But-What-If-We-Also-Had-First-Contact. Absolutely brilliant. As well as this read, I was able to listen to the audiobook during a road trip and recommend it just as much! I’m counting down the days until the sequel!

First Contact Taken Seriously. The first contact subgenre seems to fall into 3 categories; ET-type (cute, cuddly, helpless), War of the Worlds (invasion, war), or Star Trek (humans but with one defining, different trait). Axiom’s End seems to be following in the vein of stories like Arrival that want to wrestle seriously with the truly /alien/ parts of first contact. It contains some of the action and intrigue you would expect from the ET version, but combines it with serious introspection about culture clash, language, and the power of information. There’s a distinct point in the story where a similar book would allow the aliens to blast off and wrap up the story with a simple return to status quo. To Ellis’s credit the work is put in to resolve the plot beyond an acknowledgement that humanity is fearful of the Other.

Loved it. Page turner, emotionally & action packed, thoughtful, suspenseful, complete. A great read.

Interesting and Exciting. It didn’t take me long to get engrossed in this book. Definitely a page turner.

Incredible Debut Novel!. “Axiom’s End” is the debut novel by Lindsey Ellis, and it is a strong start to her Noumena Series. It’s a different type of science fiction novel, which technically can be classified as alternative history, and first contact. It’s a character-driven story, with exciting action, and emotional impact. It’s set in an alternative 2007 America, where the significant departure from our world involves aliens. Our protagonist is Cora Ortega, who was a linguistics student before she dropped out of college. She’s working a temporary job near her family home in Southern California, when the second meteor event occurs. This Obelus Event follows a previous event which was called Ampersand. These meteor strikes seem to many not to be natural, especially to Cora’s estranged father and radical transparency proponent, Nils Ortega. Nil’s is best known for having released the “Fremda Memo.” This US Government document indicates that there have been aliens in custody for forty years, and that attempts to communicate with them have been completely unsuccessful. Cora wants nothing to do with these conspiracy theories, until suddenly one night, an alien appears in her home. This begins the story of Cora, and the being called Ampersand. This relationship is really at the heart of the novel. It is the story of two radically different beings, coming to try to communicate with, and eventually to understand each other. It is a story of communication, assumptions, learning, and growth. It’s a surprising story, which had me from the beginning. I’m definitely planning on reading “Truth of the Divine” the next novel in the Noumena Series.

Enthralling and emotionally effective. i bought this book at 11 at night and by 7pm the next day i had finished it, with occasional breaks for sleep and drawing. i’ve never been so drawn to a story and it’s characters. the world building is also incredible with plenty left open for speculation and spin off works. Ampersand is adorably awkward but very willing to understand Cora and her feelings and needs. He possesses a level of empathy we’re only used to attributing to humans, something we have a hard time conceptualizing coming from anything non-human, despite him being entirely alien. Cora is such an amazing example of a strong female character written properly, and the casualness with which Lindsay describes her past dating girls is very much appreciated. Representation of LGBT characters, especially of women, often centers on their gender or sexuality in a very reductionist un-nuanced way. the twist was also built up very well while not being obvious, and the emotionality of it is in no way lost with the reveal like many twists are. if i could rate this higher i would, it is quite literally the best book i’ve ever written. thanks lindsay, excited for the sequel

Excellent first effort!. I will be looking for her next book.

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