Book Review
Feb. 26th, 2012 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frogs_of_warBooks like the Aliens ones by Gini Koch (Touched by an Alien, Alien Tango, Alien in the Family, et al) should be illegal. You’d think only working two days this last week, I’d have caught up on Harmonies and typed in some more of my stories, but no. These books are addictive.
Now I could write paragraphs about what I don’t like or that don't make sense (all men are attracted to her and the aliens can’t drive because their reflexes are too good (?) being among the worst offenders) but they don’t matter. Nothing matters. I still read them and love them despite their faults. I have book four (Alien Proliferation) in my library bag ready to be read and I know I won’t be able to hold out against it. At least book five isn’t yet published (I’ve got a hold on it), so I’ll get a chance to get something done, Thursday maybe.
What I do like is that the main character is a strong woman and that she’s funny (or at least funny things happy to her). I have laughed aloud several times. The situations she gets into… We have aliens and bad aliens and her mother turns out to a head of a branch of the CIA and her father works for NASA translation alien texts (both in secret) and her best friend (male) sees conspires everywhere, which save their bacon more than once, and she’s not the daintiest or the most feminine woman around (but of course she has big breasts), and the sex scenes are for the most part skippable, and she’s brave and smart, and her gay best friend is more than just an accessory. I could go on, but like I said, book four is calling my name.
Loudy.
Now I could write paragraphs about what I don’t like or that don't make sense (all men are attracted to her and the aliens can’t drive because their reflexes are too good (?) being among the worst offenders) but they don’t matter. Nothing matters. I still read them and love them despite their faults. I have book four (Alien Proliferation) in my library bag ready to be read and I know I won’t be able to hold out against it. At least book five isn’t yet published (I’ve got a hold on it), so I’ll get a chance to get something done, Thursday maybe.
What I do like is that the main character is a strong woman and that she’s funny (or at least funny things happy to her). I have laughed aloud several times. The situations she gets into… We have aliens and bad aliens and her mother turns out to a head of a branch of the CIA and her father works for NASA translation alien texts (both in secret) and her best friend (male) sees conspires everywhere, which save their bacon more than once, and she’s not the daintiest or the most feminine woman around (but of course she has big breasts), and the sex scenes are for the most part skippable, and she’s brave and smart, and her gay best friend is more than just an accessory. I could go on, but like I said, book four is calling my name.
Loudy.
