Author James M. Corkill https://www.independentauthornetwork.com/james-m-corkill.html published the novel “Pandora’s Eyes” in 2016. This is the fifth in his ‘Alex Cave’ series. Mr. Corkill has so far published six novels.

I categorize this book as ‘R’ because of scenes of violence. The primary character is Alex Cave. He is both a geologist and clandestine special operations agent. Earlier in the series Cave had discovered alien artifacts. The devices have powerful and largely unknown capabilities. They are potent enough to affect all life on Earth. Three of the four known devices had been taken to a top-secret storage facility. Two of those have gone missing. One has found its way into orbit.

The orbiting artifact has been incorporated into a satellite. It is intended to clear and recycle the junk cluttering space. The use of the devices begins to trigger climate changes on Earth. Their activity also wakes from stasis an alien. He and his ship have been buried deep in the Earth for millions of years. He claims Earth was theirs. This humanlike race is technologically more advanced than humans. They also have a severe bias against people with brown eyes.

Pandora is a beautiful young woman who is a servant on the alien ship. The ship AI takes control of her mind and body so that she may act as a conduit to the humans. The alien and the AI argue that the brown-eyed humans must be exterminated. They want to keep from contaminating their advanced race. When the world powers refuse, a virus is released that attacks all brown-eyed humans.

The infection is rapidly spreading around the world. Cave and his organization must find a way to stop it. Cave and his organization have developed impressive military tech. They become the only hope to keep the aliens from destroying the human race.

I enjoyed the 6.5 hours I spent reading this 270-page thriller. This novel can be read stand-alone, but I recommend reading them in sequence. I had not read the first four novels, so I entered this one without the background. Beyond the main plot, there are other subplots. This is one of those far-fetched science fiction/thrillers that keeps things moving along at a rapid pace. It is a fun read where you don’t want to think too much about the science or plot details. I do like the chosen cover art. I rate this book as a 3.4 (rounded down to a 3) out of 5.

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this was a really interesting read, I liked the premise that eyes are what determines your fate. I really enjoyed reading this.

This book was a page turner and a pretty interesting read. The science is a little weak and I would have loved to see a bit more put into that aspect. This seemed like mish mash of stories I've read before so it's not as original as I had hoped. I did rate a little lower because of it. However, I still enjoyed the book.

I also started with this book and it's the 5th in the series so perhaps the details I want were in the other books. I would say since it's fairly fast paced it would be better to read the other books in the series (before this one). Overall a fun a quick sci-fi fantasy.

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I am going to begin with the fact that this is the fifth book in the series, with which I did not read the prior 4 books. After reading this book, I didn’t feel that I was that far in the dark, but probably could have read the other books to know what was going on prior to this one. This is a Science Fiction book, not my normal. I do like my share of Sci-Fi, but it isn’t my favorite, especially in the state of unrest we are in. This was a little dark for the seclusive state that we are in. Maybe P.A.N.D.O.R.A. had brought this pandemic among us. Just Kidding. This book is fiction.
This book begins a little slow to do the backstory and whatnot, but quickly moves into action. This book starts with Alex Cave in the desert discovering an alien spacecraft in a dormant volcano of one of the Aleutian Islands, but is now hiding out in Hangar 5. We are taken on a journey through which many tings happen including a ship taking over a person, both called Pandora. Jadin has light green eyes, as this seems to be an advantage, it turns out to be both advantageous and disadvantageous. Apparently, the GREEN is a BINARY language. Jadin noticed that the alien’s eyes were brighter than hers, but both were GREEN! The alien thinks that Jadin is their leader because of her green eyes.
We are taken on quite an adventure and interaction between the Humans and the aliens. The device makes many peculiar things happen. Pandora is very selective with the people that she will deal with and will only negotiate with a select few. She demands that we rid our universe of a certain race, but will we? This was quite the interesting read to say the least.

a real science fiction story about a liens who claim the right to have our world for themselves. Bad and good people are involved and is interesting to see who will win in the end .

This book is the fifth in a series, so I won't comment a lot on characters or plot because I haven't read the previous four and would be speaking from a position of incomplete understanding. As a sci-fi adventure, it works in the abstract. The first part can be a little slow, but once first contact is made with alien life forms on earth, it gets more interesting.

However, as a reality rather than an idea, I have to say that this book isn't very well written.

Essentially, it's a script. There's dialogue, a lot of dialogue, interrupted occasionally by plain descriptions of what the characters are doing. There is almost no description of the environment beyond juvenile-sounding dialogue tags that overemphasize everybody's external characteristics like shaggy blond hair, "a slight Texas accent" and, of course, every woman's sexiness.

As for insight into what our characters are thinking and feeling, very, very rarely we'll be dropped a sentence like "she feels embarrassed" or treated to an italicized bit of inner thought. These intermittent digressions from the main dialogue are all that separate this book from actually just being the naked script of a movie or possibly a comic book.

Alex Cave is a CIA-agent-turned-geology-professor-turned-time-traveler-turned-alien-expert who works for a private company, but is still able to call up elements of the US Government and tell them what to do. He has a nearly direct line to the president, can requisition the US Navy, is welcomed into the top-secret facilities of rival companies for tours, and when the government gets involved with his alien discovery, they immediately say, "Well, you seem like you know what you're doing. You're in charge."

Alex calls everyone my friend in a way that makes you suspect he might be ESL. The words "space vacuum" and "space bench press" are used. The main plot twist is that the murderous AI turns out to be SEXYYY. Alex complains that he can't access NASA's satellites, and his techie friend leans over his shoulder and "enters several commands." Hey presto voila, we're in.

Also, this description: "She climbs inside, puts the transmission into neutral, and uses her leg muscles to roll the car away from the unit."

What does THAT mean? Are her leg muscles inside the car or outside? I'm so bewildered by the anatomy implied by this sentence. And really, by everything.