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The Prometheus Project - Book Two: Captured

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Added by Mamma B August 11, 2010

The Prometheus Project - Book Two: Captured

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Author	Douglas E. Richards
Illustrator	- No Illustrator
Publisher	Paragon Press, 2007
Genres	Action / Adventure / Sports • Family & Friends • Fantasy / Make Believe • Hobbies / Science / School • Mystery / Suspense
Age Range	3rd through 5th • 6th through 9th

Ryan and Regan Resnick are the youngest members of a top secret team exploring the greatest discovery every made: a vast alien city buried deep underground - as potentially deadly as it is astonishing.

When the city is captured by highly trained soldiers led by a ruthless alien, the adult members of the team are taken hostage. Now, Ryan and Regan are the team's only hope of survival.

With the future of the world at stake, the Resnick kids must do the impossible: outwit the brilliant alien, free the prisoners, and thwart an unstoppable invasion. But not everything is as it seems. And time is quickly running out.

The Prometheus Project - Book Two: Captured
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Second book just as clever as the first

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The Prometheus Project - Book 2: Captured by Douglas E. Richards is a great follow up to the first novel in the series. The readers start off by catching up with the Resnick kids, Ryan and Regan, and how their research with the underground city has been going over the course of a few months. (The first chapter or so gives you a pretty good background into the first story, but I would definitely still recommend reading them in order.)

The team of scientists have been making big strides and the kids couldn't be more excited about the city. They rush to the complex every day to assist their parents with their discoveries, but everyone is starting to let their guard down a little. When an unexpected alien invader breaks into the city in disguise, only a lucky turn of events keeps the Resnick kids from being held prisoner along with the rest of the team.

Richards again mixes a very creative story with a line of science and reasoning that keep the reader very interested in the story. He is very careful in explaining all the discoveries/plans/objects that the characters use as plausible in real life, instead of just futuristic sci-fi or magic. I particularly enjoy when he explains things that are already in existence that a child might find cool, but has never heard about.

The story flows well, and I never seem to be able to guess what the solutions will be before the kids find them. Several times in the story I was thinking to myself that the author would be great writing an adult movie screenplay, since so many of them these days need some good creative twists and logical thinking!

Still, my only complaint with the story is the characters lack depth. They don't ever seem to be wrong about anything and I can only describe them as perfect angels who don't even let a negative thought float into their heads. There is nothing wrong with putting a few negative aspects in a character - it makes them more real.

All in all, I think that kids will like Richards books because of the fact that he doesn't dumb them down just because they are kids. Yes, the concepts are broken down to simple terms, but I don't know if I could have even understood them written in a more sophisticated manner. And even with a high tension, alien invasion going on there is an extremely low level of violence in the book. I think this is a great set of books for science lovers, or even just science fiction lovers, to read as a family.

Overall rating:		9.0
Story:		9.0
Illustration:		9.0
Overall Opinion:		9.0

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