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WORK TITLE: The Purple Cloud Project
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Born in New York, NY; children: one son.
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Songwriter and author.
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Before publishing his debut novel, Adolfo E. Ramirez worked as a songwriter. His lyrics have been used by several notable artists, including Kat DeLuna and Pitbull. On his personal website, he explained that his interest in writing developed during his childhood, when he was suddenly introduced to typewriters by his father.
The Purple Cloud Project is Ramirez’s first published work. The novel sets the stage for a catastrophic alien invasion, which occurs on an initially ordinary day. No one can trace where the aliens came from, but their intent is to destroy humanity by any means necessary. However, there may be one person who can try and save humanity. Christopher Denmark is a man who, for a quarter of a year, has been trapped in a comatose state. By the time he comes back to consciousness, he finds the aliens have succeeded in their mission. The earth has been razed, and Christopher is the one of the few who managed to live through the ordeal. Society has fallen to pieces and Christopher is left to make sense of the new world and his place in it. It turns out that his life prior to the fall of the world wasn’t much better. In addition to the trauma of discovering his world destroyed, Christopher must also face a slew of personal demons. He committed a variety of violent acts throughout his old life, and it is these acts that continuously haunt him to this day. Now he is being tasked with figuring out exactly what happened to the world. More specifically, he is to investigate the aliens who ravaged Earth, the reasons for their invasion and where they may be now. Christopher’s investigation may start with the skies, which have been tinged a permanent shade of purple. A reviewer on the Radreads blog expressed that “the writing was good.”
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Publishers Weekly, March 27, 2017, review of The Purple Cloud Project, p. 86.
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Adolfo E. Ramirez Website, https://www.thepurplecloudproject.com (November 6, 2017), author profile.
Radreads, http://www.radreads.net/ (December 27, 2016), review of The Purple Cloud Project.
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On May 1st, the planet was attacked by a mysterious army. Their identity and their place of origin are still unknown. Their objective, however, is clear: annihilation!
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The Purple Cloud Project
Adolfo E. Ramirez. Sands (Midpoint, U.S.
dist.; Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canadian dist.),
$17.99 trade paper (292p) ISBN 978-1-988281-01-8
In Ramirez's derivative and meandering debut novel, the mysterious invaders sweeping across the Earth
have no interest in communicating with their victims. Their focus is conquest and extermination.
Conventional weapons mean nothing against the enemy because no human has ever seen an enemy to shoot
at. Human technology proves all too vulnerable. Forays against the invaders end in abject defeat. Faced with
an unbeatable foe, Cpl. Christopher Denmark and other soldiers focus on the struggle to survive each battle,
not on long-term goals. As Denmark's dwindling pool of allies could attest, it does not seem like there is a
future for pitiful humankind. The author fails to make his work stand out from the legion of other alien
invasion books. Endless battle sequences do not compensate for the lack of characterization, polished prose,
or coherent narrative. The violent work's patina of environmental moralizing and morose philosophizing
cannot distract from its essential emptiness. There is not one element that has not been done before and
better. (May)
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I never really got into this book. I never felt connected to the story or the people in it. The writing was good, just not my cup of tea.
*I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.