The Settlers: Book 1 of The Movement Trilogy

Jason Gurley

Feb 2013 · The Movement Trilogy Book 1 · Jason Gurley

About this ebook

 "Jason Gurley will be a household name one day." – Hugh Howey 
Book 1 of The Movement Trilogy 

Earth is on the brink of ruin. Great storms destroy cities. Rising seas reshape the continents. Afraid for its survival, mankind constructs a fleet of space stations in orbit, and steps off-world. 

Among the humans fighting for their future are Micah Sparrow, a widower who uncovers a plot to return mankind to the dark ages; Tasneem Kyoh, who undergoes life-extension treatments and begins the search for humanity's next home; and David Dewbury, a prodigy who believes he knows where that home might be. 

But in space, the rules aren't the only things that have changed. Man himself has changed, and with the Earth in tatters behind him, man turns his attention to the one thing left to destroy: himself. 

The Settlers is the explosive first book in Jason Gurley's Movement Trilogy, the epic story of man's small step into space, and the great leaps humanity must make to save its own future.

Ratings and reviews

Alternating pace throughout the book, but mostly slower. Just when it starts to get interesting, the subject is changed, the pac e slows back to a crawl, and often the subject is never returned to or only slightly mentioned in passing. Characters are introduced and their stories begun but not always finished. It feels as if it did not make it through editing like it should have. It has interesting ideas and concepts, but they are not explained well enough to truly understand what's going on.

I probably would have liked this book better, but there were so many times I couldn't tell whether a character was speaking or the "omniscient observer" (see what I did there, Mr Gurley?) was talking. Perhaps the author simply doesn't have a "quote" key on his typewriter. Either way, I was so distracted by the COMPLETE lack of quotation marks that it completely ruined the book. I will NOT be reading the sequels. Or anything else by him Of course, the total absence of a plot didn't help, either.

I enjoyed this book immensely, every chapter held my attention and left me wanting to read more. The author does not use quotation marks, prior comments about no punctuation are incorrect as punctuation is used, periods, question marks ect. There is a little bit of a jump here and there but the author connects the sections very well. The only thing I would have liked to see that was ommited was the development and journey of those in the revolution. It seemed like an attempt to avoid the vision of war.

About the author

Jason Gurley is the bestselling author of Greatfall, The Man Who Ended the World, The Settlers, The Colonists and other stories. He lives and writes in Oregon.