I unfortunately DNFed this book and I do not plan to pick it up again. I felt that the story was disjointed and was not making sense. The events and connections between characters were also much too convenient, even for a middle grade/childrens novel. This one just wasnt for me.

This is an amazing work of imagination in Sci-fic genre. It is a story of a 6 year old girl who fantasizes over the treasure maps and always wanted to know what it means as she couldn't resolve the mystery by then. After some years, one night, she saw a space ship landed in her farm ruining her crop. Came out one boy named Galax who came from a "million billion trillion” miles away into space.
Galax need someone to find Black Ruby, the reason of his survival and Olivia wanted it for the purpose of healing her father from diseases. They went on to different planets and the hometown of Galax too and then in the search of deep sea where they will find black ruby by reading the map that only Olivia can, but also saving themselves from the threat of Black priests.

Overall, this is a very gripping and engaging work by Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev.

Set up with an exciting plot idea this book had every chance to be grand. Unfortunately, everything was just mediocre. The character development could have been more exciting. And because friendship was so important to the plot, it should have been more in-depth. The climax of the story, fighting the Black Priests, was non-existent and anticlimactic. Simply running away and still ending up with the grand prize just seemed too easy. Overall, I was expecting more.

The idea behind this book is great. I really loved the title and the cover, and the whole idea.

Sadly the writing itself felt very rushed and the story underdeveloped. Olivia's father is dying and she sets off with an alien to find a cure for him. This has the potential to be a warm, wonderful, bittersweet story, but everything happens too fast to get your bearings. So much is convenient or glossed over that it's hard to connect with the characters on a deeper level. No spoilers, but as I reached the end of the book, I was convinced it was a book about learning to let go, but instead the story was wrapped up in a very convenient bow that didn't quite feel like it paid off.

All in all, the bones of the story are there. It feels like it was published to early and was a rough draft that had a lot of great ideas and potential but needed to be fleshed out and developed much more thoroughly.

I'm giving it 2.5 stars because there was a lot of good in it, it was just a little chaotic, hurried, and underdeveloped.

We follow 13 year old Olivia who is living in Kansas with her father. She met a time traveler, Galex, when his spaceship landed behind her home. Olivia soon learned that she was no ordinary girl and has to fulfil a destiny set out for her.

The whole story is very cute and engaging. I can see alot of curious questions being raised by kids who read this. I feel that the story focuses on teaching children about friendship and love. Olivia and Galex’s bond is definitely very heartwarming despite their obvious differences.

This is quite a short story catered for kids so don’t expect there to be complicated plot developments. It may be a quick read for adults and you might think that there is a lack of plot but I find the pacing perfect for kids to read.

Thank you Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the arc.

Olivia teams up with an alien to find the Ruby stone a save her father. Cute story. Geared for young adults.

A young girl meets a space traveler who can help her father with his terminal illness. In order to get the remedy, the girl must go with the traveler deep into the universe to help him bring it back to Earth before it’s too late. Author Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev gives readers a sweet but ultimately unsatisfying book that follows a series of incidents instead of forming a cohesive plot in Olivia and the Gentleman from Outer Space.

Twelve-year-old Olivia Fierce lives on a farm in Kansas with her father who is dying from cancer. Even though Olivia hopes for the best for her father’s health, she can see him struggling every day. When a spaceship lands in the fields behind their home, though, Olivia learns the unusual occurrence could bring back the cure.

The pilot of the spaceship, Galax, needs Olivia’s help to retrieve the Black Ruby, a legendary jewel that has healing powers. Galax says the Black Ruby has the potential to cure Olivia’s dad’s cancer, which decides the matter for her. Even though she’ll have to travel “a million billion trillion” miles into space, according to Galax, the bending of physics will allow her to come back in time to help her father. To see him healthy again, Olivia will do anything.

She climbs into Galax’s spaceship, and the two are off through wormholes and into invisible oceans. The pair meet kindhearted souls on a planet where time stands still, and they keep an eye out for the evil Black Priests who also want the gem. Along the way, Olivia learns she is the princess of Blue Earth—the name given this planet by other-worldly travelers—and she alone can read the treasure map that will take her and Galax straight to the ruby. They just have to make sure the Black Priests don’t beat them to it.

Author Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev builds a narrative that includes a sweet, almost deferential relationship between Olivia and Galax. The two travel side by side and support one another through all their ups and downs. Mikheyev offers several evergreen life lessons in the book, such as the necessity of close friends and how family members always believe in one another.

As an adventure story, however, the book doesn’t work. Olivia and Galax never find themselves in grave danger. They also never run into any serious obstacles keeping them from their goal. Their travels take them to interesting locations, but at times these scenes feel more like an itinerary rather than a well-plotted novel. Random facts about animals and the world thrown into the book feel more like it’s being used as a textbook in those moments, and the promise of the treasure map that Olivia finds or the threat of the Black Priests is severely underwhelming.

Galax’s respectful behavior toward Olivia is refreshing, but their relationship overall is somewhat confusing. Readers may not be sure whether Galax is Olivia’s tour guide, bodyguard, chauffeur, or something else. Publicity materials tout this novel as perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time or The Little Prince, but the book doesn’t have the same sense of urgency as other adventure stories.

A sweet and easy to read middle grade/young reader scifi novel. Olivia lives on a farm in Kansas with her father, who we quickly learn is suffering from lung cancer. One night, she is astounded to see a spaceship crash down in their wheat field. She rushes to the site and meets Galax, an alien prince with impeccable manners and the ability to heal by touch. She then journeys with him into space in a quest for the black ruby, which keeps Galax alive, and would allow him the power to heal Olivia's father completely.
The greatest strengths of this book are the descriptions of the beauty of space and the different planets that Olivia and Galax journey to, as well as the focus on friendship and love. There's a lot of imagination here. The writing may not be perfect, and the stakes don't feel very high, but this is still a fun and enjoyable little story. I think that children who enjoy space and fantasy would easily get something out of this book.

This was an amazing story of how friendships and relationships can heal the world and overcome evil. This will definately be a book that i will get all of my friends children to read

A 5 star review from my 9 year old co-reviewer and me! This book gave a great insight into new planets and worlds and proved that friendship is the most powerful force for good in the world!

My daughter, Olivia, and I enjoyed reading this together before she went to bed. It's an enchanting story about friendship, allowing children to travel to a fantasyland without leaving their bedrooms.

The book sounded interesting when I read about it. But for me it lacked something, maybe it was all the loose ends. Why was she a princess? And i think it should have played more on the emotions or Just made it more exciting. Thank you to netgalley for letting me read this e arc in exchange for an honest opinion

This book has an interesting premise (and a pretty cover), but I’m afraid it falls apart in execution. A lot of the story is kind of muddled, especially in the details. Olivia is called the Princess of Blue Earth, but I never did understand what makes her a princess exactly. Her dad doesn’t seem to be a king of anything, and maybe her rare ability to read the treasure map to the black ruby is what makes her a princess, but it wasn’t really explained. The gentleman from outer space, who might have been about Olivia’s age, but it’s hard to say, tends to glow in different ways depending on mood, physical status, etc. (like the alien in the movie Home), which was an interesting addition to the story. However, somehow his glowing didn’t attract the attention of the bad guys, though Olivia could often see his face, hands, and even chest glowing through/inside his space suit. And they’re in a hurry to bring the black ruby back before Olivia’s dad dies, but somehow they have time to stop on the moon for sightseeing, not once, but twice.

I didn’t realize until after I’d started reading it that it is self-published, though I’m not against self-published books by any means and am a self-published author myself. I think the book needed more editing, someone to ask important questions (like why does the author write as if Olivia would literally float away on the moon? There is some gravity) and notice some of the more nonsensical dialog and narration moments. The author seemed to put a lot more effort into the settings, and while his imagination does come through, and I appreciate the brilliant visuals in some of the locations, I would have preferred a more cohesive plot and more developed characters.

This middle-grade book is a clean story of adventure that achieves more of an elementary school interest level despite the serious basis of the plot. Six-year-old Olivia must find a mystical black ruby to cure her father’s cancer. Fortunately, Olivia has the assistance of her new friend Galax who arrived in Kansas on a spaceship. Although Galax has magical powers, he can not transmit them to or do the saving work for Olivia.. He can, however, assist her in her quest.. This reinforces the value of friendship with others who are different.. Olivia also seems to represent the wonder that children feel in every day life and their vivid imaginations. For example, when Olivia discovers a mystical map in an indecipherable language, her father sees only a blank piece of paper that blew into her hands like trash from a school yard. The cover design reminded me of vintage movie posters for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and this book does have that space travel/ space alien element. The author, however, compares his book to The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a famous novella known for its space travel with themes of death, friendship, and love. For me, that seems like a very ambitious comp title. As for a rating, it was a 3.75 for me since problems were resolved so immediately that the book lacked the suspense or sustained conflict to hold a reader’s attention; the rating is rounded to a 4 to fit the star system. Parents who read this book to younger children will not have to worry about violence or bad language. Thank you NetGalley for the e-copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

Fun and quick read. I loved the idea and the characters. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

OK, this is an I loved it, but it's a tad off, kind of review.

The story, the friendship, the love, the travel - adored all of this, adored the magic, thought it was truly a lovely book for children in that sense.

However, you'll find in this tale that a father sends his 10 or 11 year old daughter on a quest to find a piece of magic that will save said father, who is terminally ill. He even says things to to the effect of, you're my last hope. Also, their seems to be some kind of frisson between our protagonist and the Gentleman from Outer space that just doesn't sit in this magical world.

With some tweaks and tone changes, this could be beautiful and heartfelt. As it is, it's missing what I think is childhood innocence.

Olivia's dad is dying of lung cancer, so when a mysterious being from outer space arrives, Olivia takes the chance to hunt for the black ruby that can save her father's life. Olivia and Galax travel through darkness and light, danger and friendship to find the ruby, but it turns out to be quite different from what they were expecting.

In some ways, this book reminded me of Le Petit Prince; there's the jetting through the universe in the pursuit of love as well as the creative imagery and poetic wording. This is a rather atmospheric book that takes pains to create fluffy pictures out of dreamy language for a solid mood. It still has some amateur mistakes, however, that distracted me, and there are a lot of things that simply aren't explained. Why is Olivia's hair so long? Who are these black priests anyway? What are the mermaids about? What happened to Galax's family? Overall, this was a cozy read that inspired lovely dreams when read at bedtime, but I'd love to see it developed just a bit more.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. All opinions are my own.

Six year old Olivia is on her way home when a sheet of paper that flies in the breeze toward her. She picks it up to discover a map and writing on it. She can’t decipher the writing but thinks it must be a treasure map. Her dad will be able to read it. Dad looks at the paper and sees nothing on it. Olivia is disappointed. Several years passed, one day looking out her bedroom window she sees a spaceship land in the wheat field. She runs out to the spaceship. It appears destroyed but finds the pilot and talks to him. His name is Galax. Olivia finds out that she has a destiny to fulfill in outer space. She will be taken to a planet to find the black ruby. The black ruby can heal illnesses, even her father’s lung cancer. It will not be easy to do. It is a dangerous trip that Galax and Olivia will take. Will they get to the planet? Will they find the black ruby?

The author has written a science fiction novel that will enchant the reader. The plot moves quickly. It gives a positive vision of unusual changes.Olivia learns that one of her gifts is observation which she grows to appreciate. This journey and adventure will change her. I loved this novel as there is humor besides surprises in the story. She also values her friendship with Galax. It’s a story I won’t forget.

This book is compared to A Wrinkle in Time and The Little Prince. While Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev is no L'Engle or Saint-Exupery, he writes with a nice whimsical style and has a solid imagination for creating a unique universe.
Olivia and her father live in the country where she loves exploring the wheat fields with her dog, Pirate. One night a spaceship lands in the wheat field near their house, and Olivia discovers a friendly alien named Galax. Strangely, Galax is already acquainted with Olivia's father. The two tell Olivia that she must travel with Galax into space to find the Black Ruby needed to cure her father's cancer. The journey will be dangerous because they will encounter the Black Priests who want the Black Ruby to use in evil ways. Olivia, whom Galax addresses as the Princess of Blue Earth, is whisked away into an amazing and beautiful universe with Galax as a courteous, knowledgeable guide.
Olivia's father's impending death is presented in a startlingly blunt way for young readers yet the interaction with the evil Black Priests is almost unremarkable. The central message of the book, though, is beautiful and is illustrated again and again by the interactions between Olivia and Galax. "Two is better than one." The value of friendship and loving, respectful relationships is repeated multiple times throughout the story. This is a cute and entertaining book.
Thank you to NetGalley and Mikheyev for the ARC of this book.

A lovely book about friendship found in strange places and fabulous adventures in space. I expected the boys to enjoy this especially as it was about space. I was wrong, the girls loved it maybe because of Olivia.