“Surprise after surprise! I was utterly confounded! This premise is so intriguing, so many riddles..I love it! The writing is smart, clear, and, at moments, really lovely. Extremely well written and chock full of intrigue, suspense, spies, murder and wonderfully descriptive characters, places and events. This novel is fast paced, exciting and edge of your seat stuff! Not only is this an exciting, action-packed paged turner - I love the intelligence reflected, the witty dialogue, and the genuine depth in the characters’ emotions. This is an impeccable, perfectly-paced, emotional and gripping read, with a fantastic world building. I hope there’s a sequel to this series, to see how the different types of aliens and humans interact in a devastated Earth.”

“Amidst Alien Stars: Milijun Book 2 by Clayton Graham continues on with the survivors from Milijun. This time, Laura and her son Jason find themselves being held prisoners on a space station with other survivors. Jason is being held with a special purpose, but it is still unknown as to what that purpose is. The other survivors are being held with the purpose of interbreeding with the aliens that are holding them prisoner, but the reason behind the breeding still does not make any sense to the survivors. The only thing that does make sense is that they will need to figure out the agenda of the race that is holding them in order to understand what they need to do in order to survive, and hopefully find a way to escape and find a way to keep the rest of their species alive.
The first book in the series was really good, and I found this sequel to be a great addition to an already good beginning. The editing was done very well and allowed the read to move at a very fast pace. Fans of science fiction will enjoy this as the setting puts the heroes in a different galaxy in the middle of a war between two species. Great job to the author. I look forward to how this will conclude in future installments.”

“Amidst Alien Stars is an action-packed, engrossing sci-fi novel that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
This is the second book in the series. I didn’t read the first book, but never felt lost, so it can be read as a standalone.

After Laura Sinclair and her son Jason are abducted from Earth, they find themselves in a faraway place on a space station orbiting an alien world. Jason, the main character, is a liaison of sorts between the humans and aliens. There’s a lot of action, mystery, and conflict, both between the aliens and humans, who are being used as hybrids in order to space travel, and between the different alien clans.
The writing in Amidst Alien Starts is excellent, with well-developed characters, descriptive settings, and an intriguing plot and sub-plots. There are many twists and turns up to and including the unexpected ending. My only complaint is that the alien names were long and confusing, but you get used to it! A highly recommended read for fans of sci-fi, alien, and mystery stories.” Chris Clifford 5 stars
While technically the second entry to Clayton Graham’s ‘Milijun’ series, ‘Amidst Alien Stars’ is a beautifully-written, highly-imaginative standalone novel that checks all the boxes for a classic science-fiction story.
When Laura and her son, Jason, are abducted from their base in Australia, they are unwittingly thrust into the midst of an extra-terrestrial conflict that ultimately threatens the future of mankind. While they are initially treated as diplomatic guests, the Sinclairs quickly grow suspicious of their quarreling hosts' shrouded intentions. What follows is an epic ‘stranger in a strange land’ tale of divided loyalties and a quest for survival.

For his part, Graham hits it out of the park when it comes to the all-important job of ‘world-building,’ offering readers a vivid glimpse into a wholly-realized alien world that, not unlike our own, is rife with complication.

Additionally, like all good science fiction, Graham explores a bevy of ‘human’ issues, including racism, through the lens of an alien species. The U.K.-based author is clearly a fan of this genre, as he takes great-care to cleverly offer a fresh take on a myriad of tropes.
Featuring a cast of nuanced, well-written characters and an air-tight, thought-provoking plot, Clayton Graham’s ‘Amidst Alien Stars’ is a brilliant novel—fans of classic sci-fi (Asimov, Clarke, etc.) will not be disappointed.”

“When we left Laura Sinclair and her son, Jason, at the end of Milijun their lives were being bounced as though tennis balls between an unknown alien agenda and unsuspected human agendas. Now, we find Laura, Jason and other survivors of Milijun to be prisoners aboard an alien space station in the planetary system of the star Gliese, the Gliesan agenda still unknown. Jason is known to the aliens as “The first seen” and is important to them for an undisclosed reason. The remainder of the survivors has become breeding stock to produce alien-human hybrids, again for an undisclosed purpose.

What follows is a tale of double-dealing and hidden agendas among races of Gliesans extending far back into Gliesan history. The Rbuzen Gliesans, their captors, have a distinct reason for creating Gliesan-human hybrids and their agenda has placed both the human survivors and the hybrids squarely in the middle of what could become a Gliezan civil war. Jason, as “First Seen”, must find a way to reconcile Gliesan differences in order to ensure the survival of both humans and Gliesans, while Laura and the other survivors continue to be manipulated by both factions. The end result is nothing I would have ever predicted.

Amid Alien Stars has a cast of characters sufficiently developed for their roles in the story. The alien characters are interesting but focused on their agenda to the exclusion of other considerations. Rather than being malevolent, they are being pressured in different ways than humans. The story contains several different players and factions and the humans are never quite sure who their most recent captors are. The aliens certainly never give them a straight answer.

All in all, Amid Alien Stars is a fine sequel to Milijun and a very entertaining read for sci-fi fans. It’s doubtful, though, that many readers will guess the end before they read it.”