A New Dawn is an interesting new Sci-fi book by Akira Varma. A team of Astronaughts heads to a distant moon and what they find there kicks off a chain of events that will consume all oir characters.
I really enjoyed the plot and I'm interested to see where the story goes in the next book.
However it did feel at times that the book was more focused on the plot than on the characters and caused some of the characters to feel a bit 2D.
I also wish there was a bit more exploration of the world and the political landscape behind the plot. What we see is interesting, with the government overreach and authoritarian system, but it isn't given enough focus to really let you keep up with the wider world the characters are existing in. I'd be interested to see if the sequel will explore more of the world, and maybe how we got there.

Overall I enjoyed reading this and look forward to the sequel.

The storyline seemed good here, but the time shifts were not as clear as I would have preferred (some spacing or time stamps at the beginning of each chapters/section would have helped and the shifting POV/characters was a bit confusing for me.

This is a very easy to read, fast-paced sci-fi adventure, involving space exploration gone wrong and a conspiracy. It follows a few different inter-weaving points of view, some of which I enjoyed more than others.

The book did not entirely work for me, and my main issue was that I found the characters quite flat. I do feel however that this would be a good book to introduce someone to the genre.

This was a strong start to the New Dawn series, I enjoyed how everything worked with the elements of the book. The characters were everything that I was looking for and enjoyed the use of scifi element. Akira Varma has a great writing style and left me wanting to read more in this series.

This was an interesting book. A quick read with an interesting premise, I agree with another reviewer that the characters just seemed disjointed, the lack of chemistry and the overall lack of cohesion made me a little antsy. I would still read the next book and hope that in that one we see more chemistry and better cohesion. Bringing the characters together more or fleshing them out to make them more multi-dimensional overall.

A New Dawn is an interesting sci-fi novel. With any book of this genre, I am usually worried the science will be too complicated. But that was not the case here. Everything was always explained nicely without going too deeply and making it complicated. So even a person with no awareness about space travel science can feel confident while reading this book.

It was quite easy to read. The writing is smooth, albeit quite repetitive. Some sentences are repeated twice using the same wording or just changing one part. I think the book would benefit with more editing, some parts were unneccessary or did not make sense within a continuity line.

The characters felt a little bit one dimensional I was not able to connect to either of them much. They did not feel developed and neither connected to each other much. There was an issue with naming one of the characters - the commander of the spaceship, Nancy Phillips, is in several places referred to as Tammala Brooks. This fact often confused me about who the book is talking about. I assume the character name change was a last minute decision that was not edited in the final book properly. Presenting the story from the point of view of different characters made it more interesting, engaging and opened the possibility to learn about the same situation from a different position and point in time.

The story made up for the lack of editing. I like the concept of a world more than hundred years in the future and the development humanity went through. Even though the general feeling I got was that there hasn't been much of it. The world felt more contemporary than futuristic. I was expecting more technological development, for example, not just ordinary cars and phones. At the same time, it felt strangely comforting to think that some parts will stay the same while other areas develop majorly, such as space travel. The plot was interesting and adventurous, presented in a way that made me feel tense and interested in what will happen next. Towards the end of the book, reader does not find out what is exactly happening and I like that the fear of the unknown is kept throughout the whole book which ended on a cliffhanger, setting a space for the sequel which I am excited to read.

I had a very hard time making it through this story. The writing is so repetitive. I would imagine no less than 30% of this novel could be eliminated with some decent editing.

A New Dawn is an easy to read, intriguing scifi novel. The blurb is what caught my attention first, and I immediately wanted to read and know, where the adventure would take its protagonists.
As it is the first in a duology, I was ready for a possible cliffhanger.

I enjoyed it and for the most part. The plot and story telling was interesting. There was definitely a lot of potential and I liked the classic horror-scifi vibes I got from the book. The mysterious happenings and fear of the unknown was definitely palpable while reading.

The world and entities that Varma created was interesting and the suspense hooked me well enough that I needed to know more, I needed answers. The tension and suspense were both very well used and kept me tied to the book.

Sadly, the characters felt quite bland, I didn’t feel like there was any connection between the characters. There was no (not even platonic) chemistry between any of the characters. It felt like they were strangers in space, rather than colleagues or even acquaintances.
The pacing was also a little jarring at times. I had slightly mixed feelings about it. Whenever the plot it seemed to find a good pace, it would again, rush through certain scenes, sometimes it felt a little forced. While certain scenes there were very intricate and full of detail, others it seemed to be a little rushed.

I genuinely enjoyed reading The New Dawn and I definitely want to read the second book. It’s was an interesting and fun read, with the duology holding a lot of promise.