
The Field Trip
by R. A. Andrade
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Pub Date May 01 2015 | Archive Date Jul 16 2015
Description
AN ADVENTURE MIXED WITH A TOUCH OF FANTASY. ADD A TWIST OF LOVE.
Although clumsy with women, botany professor Ross Barton possesses the quality of fearlessness when confronting danger. Relieved to be escaping routine school work and a bad relationship for a field research trip, a strange woman and danger are the last of his expectations.
Jay, an awkward young woman unwilling to disclose her past, begins a solitary hike into the forest with a pet concealed in a box. She claims the pet is a cat.
Rumors are spreading about odd lights in the night skies of New England.
A flight instructor reports that the government quarantined an area of Vermont woods.
All trails intersect on The Field Trip.
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ISBN-13: 9780990325437
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eBook edition will also be available May, 2015
ISBN-13: 9780990325437
$4.99
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I loved this book! I kinda guessed some of it but then it took a different turn than I expected so that evened it out for me. Loved the whole plot line and the action.

The Field Trip R. A. Andrade
This book is a hoot. Professor Ross Barton is taking a research trip to Vermont. His field is Botany and he wants to study the flora of the Appalations. The last thing on his mind was meeting a very unconvential woman. She was tall with curling black hair, violet-blue eyes, and totally without a clue. Did I mention that Ross is a total clutz when it comes to women? I really liked this book. It had romance?, adventure, aliens, military and even CIA (MIB?). It was fun to read and made me laugh often. Her unusual pet? was great. Part fantasy, part sci-fi and a lot of unbeliveable action. I even liked the ending.
thank you NetGalley for the free kindle book. I really was a hoot.

Completely unexpected twist in the middle of this book. It was a little slow to start but once the story got going I was hooked. I want my own messenger owl! I could say more but I would give spoilers and you have to just read it for yourself!

I absolutely LOVED this book. Original, humorous, sexy, suspenseful. Just a great GREAT read. Finished in one day. And it would make a great movie!

Loved it!
It took me a couple of chapters to get into this book, but wow, when I did, I literally could not put it down. It was so original and I had no idea where the plot was taking me.
I loved the main character Ross and his bumbling ways, made me giggle so often, and Jay, what a fascinating character from the start. I found myself really hoping everything would work out for them and the last 10/20% of the book had me literally on the edge of my seat.
One of those books that leaves me unable to start another just yet, while I bask in the brilliance that it was.

I loved this story. A mix of sci-fi, romance and action, it kept me reading wondering what was going to happen next. Very enjoyable with touches of humor that had me laughing out loud.

Was intrigued by the cover of this book and was quickly drawn in to the story when I started reading! Built up at a nice pace and was a good mix of drama, mystery, sci-fi and humour!! Was a little silly at times but I think that added to the enjoyment as it was something a little different! Will be recommending to others!!

What a lighthearted, fun and entertaining book. The author started the story at a nice sedate pace that was kept up through the entire book. With the story beginning with Ross, his job and his past experiences (with women or flying), the author began to build a good image of the character. Ross became an optimistic, adventurous, although slightly boring, innovative guy. Then, enter in Jay. She was unique from her conception and the author did a good job of building her as an off-color and interesting character. Initially, I anticipated the story to culminate with at the end with the stereotypical ending you might see in the this science fiction novel, but I was pleasantly surprised with the explanation and then the continuance from about the middle of the story to the end. The story and character developments were not the most in-depth I've read, but it was an easy and very entertaining read. Where you might guess what could happen next, the author managed to keep it fresh and enjoyable until the end. The humor was pleasing, bright and slightly sarcastic. I do wish there was more dimension to a couple of the characters (the cigar chewing Lt and Marsha), but it wasn't necessary to the story. I only saw two brief typos, so the editing was well done. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the book from the time I started reading it until the last page. I wouldn't mind a second novel, maybe starting from Marsha's point of view.

Review: THE FIELD TRIP by R. A. Andrade
As botany professor Ross Barton continues to insist, "it's not a field trip, it's a research trip," to investigate the effects of environmental pollution--acid rain--on forests in Northern Vermont. It's not intended to be research into UFO' s, military intervention and quarantine, psychic owls--or falling in love, for the very first time. THE FIELD TRIP is delightfully a combination of fantasy, contemporary science fiction, and wonderful character study. Check out this trip into the forested "wilds."

The Field trip is a gem of a story, not too long and packed with action. It starts slowly with a clumsy biologist, Ross, who claims to be useless at relationships with women (and then goes on to attract several women in quick succession, including a potential long-term girlfriend, Marsha). He also claims to be going on an important scientific field trip that cannot be delayed – but by about a third of the way through the book, the trip is completely forgotten except as an excuse to be trotted out when asked what he is up to. It all changes when Ross, meets the strange woman, Jay, and becomes increasingly drawn to her, and obsessed with helping her – despite her antagonism. Slowly, Ross morphs into an action hero a la John McLean and he, Jay and Oswald become a formidable team. To me, Oswald is the best character in the book, and the one unforeseeable surprise in the story. She lights up every scene she is in. Marsha is the saddest, and I feel she was badly mistreated in the end. The story line is not original. Most readers will know of similar tales, and many plot twists can be anticipated. Suspension of disbelief is essential at times. But that does not mean you shouldn’t read this book. It is well written, great characters, full of humour, and lots and lots of fun, as well as having a serious message about not judging by appearances and the dangers of bigotry. It would make a great film, but until the film is made – read the book!

Professor Ross Barton is a botany expert, single, eccentric, and very alone, has decided to go on a Research Trip. His Mother keeps calling it a field trip, and thus a very important research trip became coined a "field trip". His Mom would like him to find a nice girl and get married as she feels he is well past old enough for a wife.
Ross starts dating a girl, but he really has some suspicions. Putting them all aside, he heads off on his trip, warned that there are some strange going-on's in the sky and area where he is headed. While trying to reach the forest he will be working in, he runs into the most usual woman he's ever met. Her name is Jay, and he keeps running into this hostile, odd person, and her very odd pet, in a box. This "cat" and this woman are so strange that Ross can't help but aid her in every way he can.
Soon they find themselves of the trip of a lifetime, with Military in the area, and strange objects, things that don't add up, and a story that I really enjoyed! You can call this book a tad old-fashioned Sci-Fi in some ways, and frankly, I really liked that about it! I did not want to put this book aside.
My copy came from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and nothing more.

It's been a long while since I read science fiction, not since those old Dean Koontz days when I devoured most of it. This one was a mysterious surprise.
At the start, I couldn't wait for the adventure and the traipse to the New England forest for I know the place is lush and picturesque. But, of course, I had to wind my way first through the botany professor's rather mundane turned lively love life coupled with some angst. There was something that bothered me yet I couldn't put my finger on it until only near the end.
On his way to the research trip, he meets this odd and rather repulsive (in a D.H. Lawrence kind of way) (disturbing) woman and yet something in her rough-around-the-edges ways drew him to her. They then disembark together into an adventure neither of them ever expected.
Neither did I. That's the surprise part. The characters aren't very much endearing at first impression though further on in the book they were given such depths that your heart just goes out to them in the end. The more I think of it, the more that they could almost win me over.
Oswald, however, is simply one of a kind. He totally won me, hands down. The best relationship here, I think, is the rapport between Oswald and Ross. Their engagement was written naturally and seemingly without strained effort. It breathed like a living form.
The only little head scratching one that bothered me was the psychology of relationship as partly displayed here. Perhaps, in a way, it speaks to some men and women who find themselves unnecessarily stuck to someone they couldn't break off with even though it doesn't make sense anymore. But don't let this dissuade you.
Just to give you a taste of what's coming, it gives a little throwback feel to the old famed Steven Spielberg film and J.J Abrams recent nod but for adults. Field Trip is right up to the alley of those who seek more than a traipsing adventure in the forest, a sci-fi feel and best of all, a love that knows no bounds.
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