Captive

Bradley Caffee’s Captive is a briskly paced and teen-focused thriller, immersing readers in Ted’s fight to survive an alien-wrecked warzone.

Ted James wants answers, and now that he has captured an alien Skya’ja, he might get them. Bradley Caffee’s novel Captive opens in a near-future sci-fi Earth after the Cataclysm that destroyed our planet’s future and the clean energy system promised by the supposedly peace-loving space visitors. Captive is a briskly paced and teen-focused thriller, immersing readers in Ted’s fight to survive an alien-wrecked warzone. On his journey to manhood, Ted must fight prejudice and anger to solve a mysterious downtown Bubble and the Cataclysm itself.

Best for: Teen and adult fans of dystopian/apocalyptic near-future sci-fi.

Discern: Several briefly described fight scenes, verbal and physical abuse associated with racism against the aliens, a few chaste kisses.

Guildmaster Ticia Messing oversees the Lorehaven Guild, an exclusive community for monthly quests into fantastical stories. As a prolific Lorehaven Review Team reader, she finds the best Christian-made fantastical fiction and shares this with her teenage daughter and giant twin teen boys. As a homeschooling mom graduate, her days are filled with shouting, “No Nerf guns in the house,” and “We do not joust inside!” with a side dash of “What did the dog eat now?” She dreams of reading her fantasy books in peace with a cuppa tea, and will gladly discuss with you the latest book she's found in the Guild.

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