A Very Human Mission

this was a really good scifi novel, the characters were great and I really enjoyed getting to know the characters. I look forward to more from the author.

A Very Human Mission
by Joel Weddington
Very similar modern take on Stranger in a Strange land. This book looks into the metaphysical world. The aliens are watching the pain of the world, trying to teach light and unity through meditation and sendings. But it was not enough. One chooses to join the human race. The author shows that through our choices we can rise up. Go through a brighter path and learn to change the world one day at a time. Doing the work of a single day, for a better tomorrow. Joel Weddington uses this story to show how people can change their own story for the better. Even from the worst of human poverty, human desperation can rise through work, through caring, through changing the life of themselves, and others. Like the aforementioned Heinlein story, this novel shows the confusing and astounding difficulty of human existence. The conflicting world where truth is not an easy road, but a web of cross mazes interlocked and complicated beyond human understanding. In the end the story is an uprising and inspirational, even though it was a dark and complex maze.

With thanks to NetGallery and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book for an honest review.

On a far away planet beings of an advanced nature want to help humanity, however this seems to be getting more difficult as humans these days seem to be dealing with more complex feelings and less happiness seems to be about.
Confused by this, the beings can take up a risky ‘earth birth’ where their mission is to help humans as much as possible in their human lifetime, doing good for others and not taking a darker path of selfishness and greed. Should they take this dark path or fail, they will be reborn on earth over and over again until they complete the mission, if they do at all.

Numan is one of these beings, he is somewhat of an outcast as his mind tends to be different than that of his world. . He decides to take on this mission, but his choice of ‘first birth’ and the family he will be a part of is very unusual ...
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I adored this book, it’s one of those books where the words just flow and the story sucks you in. We see humans with incredible faults, but they are never judged by the author. Instead we see how complex they are and conflicted, how the choices we make can change the lives of those around us, for good and bad. We see this from both Numans perspective, in his human for of Brad; and from the author delving into how the characters are motivated with conflicting emotions of love and traumatic events of their own that can bleed down into their own children, forming paths that they may or may not take.

What I also loved was there was no glorification of anything, this felt, aliens aside, a very real and relatable story of how we strive to overcome and better ourselves, how we wonder if we are good people and do we do enough? How we are a flawed species with good intentions.

A very human mission is a lovely book that I would recommend highly.