Welcome to the green districts of Elissa, capital city of the unified corporate planet, Carthage. The year is 0061. For 29 years, husband and father Miles Stanton has followed society's guidelines. But one day he is pushed too far. Branded a criminal and deemed unfit to live or work on Carthage, Miles is exiled to the harsh prison moon of Gyaros, losing everything that was ever important to him.
He struggles to survive as a civilized human being in a lunar wasteland of chaos and brutality. But when surrounded by unspeakable violence and madness, how long can a man hold on to his precious humanity?
They say there's no way back to Carthage. But if Miles is to survive on Gyaros he has to believe that there is.Follow Miles as he makes friends and enemies, fighting for his life across Carthage and Gyaros, and stumbling upon secrets he was never meant to know!The debut novel by musicians, authors and brothers, Rohan & Alex Healy; The Mice Eat Iron is the first thrilling part of the epic sci-fi adventure that is the Gyaros trilogy.
- Publisher: Beardfire Publishing
- Release Date: April 3rd 2013
- Author's Website
*NO Spoilers*
What happens when everything you hold dear has betrayed you?
What happens when an average man is suddenly thrown in a hostile environment?
What finally happens when in the deepest pit of hell you suddenly find truth and friends and people who care for you?
That’s some of the questions our hero Miles is forced to answer in this book.
Gyaros:The Mice Eat Iron is a book for the struggle of a man for survival, struggle to overcome obstacles and to remain human.
Miles lives in the ideal city of Carthage, a phenomenally ideal life until THAT life kicks him in the face, then Miles is shipped to a wasteland named Gyaros or Red Moon a desert like planet for all the outcasts, all the criminals of Carthage.
The reasons why Miles was convicted to exiled are not important. After all he is not the first and certainly won’t be the last man who will eventually find out that his life is based on lies.
His love, however, and commitment to his son is truly admiring.
Between us and this is the only memorable thing I found in Miles’s character. I couldn’t find the connection with the MC throughout the course of the book and I honestly didn’t see him grow into a different, stronger man by the end.
nevertheless, the authors did a great job in world building!!! Although I’m not a fan of the genre I enjoyed really the hard and unforgiving world of Gyaros!
Carthage is the planet of prosperity, the world where everything works as a well tuned clock, functional, shiny and new! The world of light and opportunity. On the contrary Gyaros – The Red Planet is rough, desert like and foul of living terrors but despite all these Miles in Gyaros finds a purpose and to help him with this purpose he unexpectedly finds new friends and ultimately he finds the truth.
“Miles raised his gaze to the large red moon in the sky, Gyaros the land of exile, where the worst criminals, deviants, miscreants, and those deemed unfit to populate the verdant and prosperous home world of Carhtage were sent to rot. Those banished to Gyaros had no hope of ever returning to Carthage’s capital, nor any other part of Carthage for that matter as the means to do so simply did not exist.”
If you can keep up with the rough ride and the graphic novel atmosphere then this book is for you.
*NO Spoilers*
What happens when everything you hold dear has betrayed you?
What happens when an average man is suddenly thrown in a hostile environment?
What finally happens when in the deepest pit of hell you suddenly find truth and friends and people who care for you?
That’s some of the questions our hero Miles is forced to answer in this book.
Gyaros:The Mice Eat Iron is a book for the struggle of a man for survival, struggle to overcome obstacles and to remain human.
Miles lives in the ideal city of Carthage, a phenomenally ideal life until THAT life kicks him in the face, then Miles is shipped to a wasteland named Gyaros or Red Moon a desert like planet for all the outcasts, all the criminals of Carthage.
The reasons why Miles was convicted to exiled are not important. After all he is not the first and certainly won’t be the last man who will eventually find out that his life is based on lies.
His love, however, and commitment to his son is truly admiring.
Between us and this is the only memorable thing I found in Miles’s character. I couldn’t find the connection with the MC throughout the course of the book and I honestly didn’t see him grow into a different, stronger man by the end.
nevertheless, the authors did a great job in world building!!! Although I’m not a fan of the genre I enjoyed really the hard and unforgiving world of Gyaros!
Carthage is the planet of prosperity, the world where everything works as a well tuned clock, functional, shiny and new! The world of light and opportunity. On the contrary Gyaros – The Red Planet is rough, desert like and foul of living terrors but despite all these Miles in Gyaros finds a purpose and to help him with this purpose he unexpectedly finds new friends and ultimately he finds the truth.
“Miles raised his gaze to the large red moon in the sky, Gyaros the land of exile, where the worst criminals, deviants, miscreants, and those deemed unfit to populate the verdant and prosperous home world of Carhtage were sent to rot. Those banished to Gyaros had no hope of ever returning to Carthage’s capital, nor any other part of Carthage for that matter as the means to do so simply did not exist.”
If you can keep up with the rough ride and the graphic novel atmosphere then this book is for you.
Thanks so much for the honest and well balanced review Marina!
All the best :)
Rohan.