Jeanine

1st & Favorite

Revisado: 06-28-19

This was my 1st Stephen King book & it will always be my favorite.

Fantastic performance by Bronson Pinchot.

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Too YA for me/Lackluster narration

Revisado: 05-13-19

When I started this book, I was unsure how someone could/would write a YA novel set in the ALIEN universe. After listening, I now know the answer to that question and it's unsuccessfully.

I'm a HUGE fan of the ALIEN series (books & movies) and I'm a fan of Mira Grant's other series' Newsflesh & Parasitology, but this book did absolutely nothing for me. It's too YA to be an ALIEN book and it's also not thrilling enough to be an ALIEN book. Obviously, since it's YA, there is very little graphic violence - it's all assumed or overheard by the characters, it's never described in any detail - which is great for a YA book but not for a book in the ALIEN series. Also, it was just too "juvenile" for me. I know it's YA, but I've also read Harry Potter and the Hunger Games and the Divergent series, among others. Those were YA but definitely not juvenile in the way this book is. There's just too much "teen hormone drama" for me. The storyline for pretty much the entire 1st half of the book is taken up by the main character pining away over a classmate - no Xenos to be found! And when they do finally show up, it's all just so BLAH!

If all that isn't bad enough, the narration could have been better. Throughout the entire book, it was very difficult to tell the difference between a character's inner thoughts and actual spoken dialog. For most of the book, I was unsure if the characters were actually speaking out loud to each other or just in their own heads. There was no differentiation in the narrator's inflection. It was extremely distracting and kept taking me out of the (weak to begin with) story.

Overall, I was completely underwhelmed.

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Audiobook was provided for review by the narrator.

Revisado: 12-20-17

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I was given this book in exchange for an honest review. Honestly, I'm not a fan of this particular genre. I tried, but I just could not get into this book. That's not to say it was bad or good, just that I didn't particularly care for it. I know this is a very unhelpful review, but there it is.

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