Swarm Enemy: Book 2 (Swarm Rising)

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With the help of bestselling children’s author Steve Cole, these books are Peake’s first forays into fiction. Having encountered aliens in their first adventure (NB Swarm Enemyworks perfectly well as a stand-alone story), Jamila has been left with some strange, extra-terrestrial powers and this makes her a target for some very unscrupulous characters.

Adi – Alien Digital Intelligence in the form of a girl – can bend the laws of physics and control digital data, but as a digital being she wants to know what it’s like to be human.

This second book has a lot more twists and turns than the first, which is one of the reasons why I preferred it. The journey to defeat the “Malusonians” is action packed and features a lot of sci-fi hallmarks, including zombies, teleporting, DNA hacking, an antimatter bomb, cryogenic suspension and a trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

Having encountered aliens in their first adventure (NB Swarm Enemy works perfectly well as a stand-alone story), Jamila has been left with some strange, extra-terrestrial powers and this makes her a target for some very unscrupulous characters. Unfortunately, the information comes in huge chunks that somewhat interrupt the flow of the narrative, and because the books are written entirely in the first person, the authors often try and explain it through conversations that are some of the most stilted I’ve ever read, despite it being aimed at children. As Peake is an astronaut and a science-outreach ambassador, I did have faith that the science in the books would be factual – which is just as well, because there’s a lot of it. Tim Peake (Author) Tim Peake was the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station.You are incapable of working together to make change,” retorts a member of the Swarm when Danny tries to argue that we can fix it. Full of exclusive new stories, and astonishing detail only an astronaut would know, the book conveys what space exploration is really like: the wondrous view of Earth, the surreal weightlessness, the extraordinary danger, the surprising humdrum, the unexpected humour, the newfound perspective, the years of training, the psychological pressures, the gruelling physical toll, the thrill of launch and the trepidation of re-entry. Swarm Enemy Perfect for fans of Alex Rider, Young Bond and Cherub, this fast-paced action-adventure is the second thrilling story from astronaut Tim Peake and bestselling author Steve Cole. Peake and Cole are often too overt with these for my taste, but they are incorporated well into the plotline. But in brief, another alien race has come to Earth on the back of the teenagers’ trip across space in book one, and they don’t have good intentions.