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Why is it called a "tractor beam" anyway? What's a tractor got to do with a beam of power or light? Never got the point. Why not just call it an energy beam?

Congratulations, girl. You are a prolific writer.
I can't keep up with you.

This is to Randy,
About your trailer. I didn't want to post in the main group, because I think I can be more brutally honest here. You asked for unvarnished opinions. Here's mine, for what it is worth. The trailer had a lot of white type on black background telling us what is in the book (too much of what the book is about). There was no action, it was more of a slide show with unrelated images dispersed between shots of type. There is no mystery. Nothing that piques interest. Basically the trailer asks the watcher to come with your characters on their journey- after telling the watcher everything about the journey. Your book is better than this. It's full of action and intensity. None of that showed up on the trailer.
Sorry, I was hoping to like it- I'm planning on doing a trailer for my book series- though I'm doing it myself.
FYI-Adobe has film-clips you can purchase at reasonable rates. They probably have clips of explosions and war footage– something to think about.

Side hug

A man and woman demonstrate a side hug
A side hug is a display of affection in which a person hugs another by putting one arm around their shoulders, rather than both arms around them.[1] This can be useful for example when posing for a photograph, or if an ordinary hug for some reason is considered too intimate for the situation.[2][3]
Got this from Wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt.

@Kdot,
I don't think I ever said Mike was safe. In fact, he will be attacked in a future chapter. But I think you're right, I need to find a way to put Sharon Stone into the book- though she hadn't been born yet, but I do explain later that time is also just another dimension.

Jo Nesbø. The man can’t write a kluncker

Good luck in you next endeavors, Suin. Lord knows I’ve been MIA in my responsibilities to this group as well. I do my best. And will continue. I will miss your novel, though, I was really getting into it, and it’s not my normal genre, which is saying something.
Please keep my email, I’d like to keep in touch.
CJ

Let's see. Too much description is when you get bored reading it. If it's so boring, you don't even want to re-read it to edit it. You can describe something with a ridiculous amount of detail, but if it is fun to read, enriches the experience of reading the story–it's not too much. Too little description is when you read a book and it feels like they are floating in an empty space. You can't imagine where they are, or what they are doing because no space had been defined.

Wow, I had no idea this could happen. Great explanation, NJC. I'll be on the lookout in my own chapters.

My office is a living room, too. Who needs a living room, anyway.

You know, you can comment on what is working, what you find effective, not just improvements. There is a way to get at least 5 comments in even a short review. Even if it is the occasional well done!