The Contingency is the first book of the Contingency War series by G.J.Ogden. The book follows the adventures and revelations of Casey Valera, Blake Meade, Taylor Ray, and Satomi Rose. The four are part of a crew that looks for the remnants of an evil race of aliens that had tried to exterminate humanity.
In this kind of book it is obvious there is going to be a twist. The thing though is trying to guess what category that twist will fall into. If it will be something like humans were the enemies all along or something else. The twist comes around the midpoint of the book and is a shock. If the author hadn't developed the characters well enough then the twist wouldn't have had as much of an impact.
One of the things a first book in a series needs to do is draw your interest to the point you have to read the next book but it still feels like a self-contained story. In fact, that goes for any book in a series but is more important in the first of a series as the ball needs to get rolling somehow. This book does a good job with having a gripping plot, good characters, and a plot that can continue to the next book.
I would recommend this to any science fiction fan that likes a mystery.
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