This is a high quality science fiction story.

You have aliens who then obtain super powers.

A fight between good and bad, what more could you ask for ?

I forgot to add in the reaction of ourselves finding we are not alone.

Great novel, highly recommend for those who enjoy the genre. Will be recommending for immediate purchase.

Gripping story. The characters choices all felt real.. It is a dark story but not one drenched in misery.Interesting concept of aliens. It hearkens back to many star trek episodes.

Since long I did not read a good Sci-Fi. What do we do if we meet some nasty powerful aliens? It's a gripping story.
Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for this copy.

Jason Parent’s People of the Sun is a science fiction book that takes place in the near future. The book opens with State Trooper Matthew Simpson and his geologist friend Connor Gaudreau hiking through the misty edge of a lake toward a meteorite that landed there. As they approach the object, they notice that the lake has completely evaporated and that the heat is so great that the skin from the corpses of the fish has been cooked off.

The meteorite is not quite what it appears, though. It’s actually a spaceship from the inside of the sun, carrying four aliens, desperate to find resources for their collapsing society. When their ship takes off from the sun, which they call Symoria, there’s some sort of explosion, which causes them to crash into Earth.

Connor and Matt encounter the aliens in the woods near the crash site, where they meet Lenyx, the team’s leader, along with Tryst, Milliken, and Kazi. While the first three understand the importance of getting along with the inhabitants of this new world, Kazi has more sinister goals, his main motivation being to rape Tryst, who is in love with Lenyx.

Connor quickly learns that the aliens are very dangerous. When they come into contact with water, they gain powers, including telekineses, teleportation, and telepathy. They can also kill humans by touching them with their bare skin, usually resulting in the human turning into a pile of ashes.

Despite good intentions, things start to go wrong. At a press conference, Lenyx accidentally turns the American president into a pile of ashes. The government and military go after them, as Connor tries to help them as best he can.

There are definitely things I enjoyed about this book, but there are many more things I found problematic.

One of the things I appreciated was that most of the book is told from the aliens’ point of view. So many science fiction novels are told from the perspective of humans interacting with aliens, so it was refreshing to see something a little different. Although they were multidimensional, I wish the characters had seemed more alien; when the aliens encountered earth and gained their telepathic abilities, they begin to act and think so human that I kept having to remind myself of their extraterrestrial origins.

It was nice that this was a fast-paced book. So many science fiction books tend to be heavy reads, but this one was definitely quick. I finished it in about six hours of reading. That said, I wish there had been more details on the structure of Symoria’s government and culture, as I’m a huge fan of world-building.

Some of the sentences are a little awkward:

“Then it melted and slid down the formation like a pickle smeared in ketchup thrown against a window.”

And then this description of the aliens that I could not, for the life of me, picture in my head:

“Tryst only smiled bigger, so big it covered half her face with four rows of double-pointed teeth, massive fangs retracted behind black gums. Her slim, sinewy lips, so colorless they were nearly transparent, curled beneath her bulbous pink globe eyes. “There’s nowhere else to go but out,” she said, chuckling. As she laughed, her small, hairless snout wiggled in a way Kazi found enticing.”

The reason I was so confused by this description is that, in other parts of the book, they make the aliens seem somewhat human, albeit much larger.

The primary problem I had with this book is that it asks the reader to suspend too much disbelief. Readers of science fiction and fantasy novels are used to doing that, as most books of those genres take a lot of liberty with reality. People of the Sun, however, requires us to believe that there are aliens living in the center of the sun who, once they arrive on earth, have no problem breathing our air. They can subsist on nothing but water. And then, there’s the ending.

I don't want to give away any endings (if you do want to read the full review, check out the post on my blog: https://bit.ly/2NsRTxz), but the ending is what made me give this book 2 stars instead of the three I had been planning.

Overall, there are much better science fiction novels out there.

People of the Sun is an emotionally gripping book about the encroachment of an alien population onto Earth. Symorians are preparing for a mission to save their own planet when a disaster strikes, forcing their ship to crash on Earth. Local men find a foreign aircraft and have unimaginable experiences right from the start. The first interactions are enthralling and remind us how different worlds could be. I was captivated by the author's choice of description for each lot part of the plot. To imagine what it would be like to encounter aliens, this book definitely gives you that feeling. How we, as a civilization, handle the entrance of a new species unlike us, but so much like us, became quite realistic, rather quickly in this novel. The conversations, government decisions, and the destruction we could face, felt real. What I found most gripping about this novel, was how much alike we were of the Symorians. I felt for them as a species. I imagined what it would be like. This is a must read for any sci-fi reader.