aliens

The plot of this one sounds eerily familiar to me: humankind makes it to Mars and finds that (gasp!) we’re not alone.

I just finished Season
of Strangers by Kat Martin, and boy, what a read!

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

(Little, Brown - 2008)

Rating: Excellent

This is one of those rare novels that feels completely perfect and self-contained, and leaves me in awe wondering if I'll ever been able to write anything as good as this book.

How to summarize this one?  THE NEW SPACE OPERA has stories of aliens, new worlds, new life forms, etc.  All are written in a very high-brow, intellectual manner and most seem to presume the reader is already familiar with the worlds.  I don't know what else to say and wouldn't even blog this one but it's for the counter.  Took me a solid year to wade through. NFM

Favorite author Diana Palmer, best known for her cowboy romances and the Long, Tall Texans series, has made an interesting debut into the world of science fiction with this first book in her Morcai Battalion series. Fans of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga will want to pick up Palmer.

--review by Vicki So, proofreader

Last in the series that includes “Your Planet or Mine?” and “My Favorite Earthling”.

My rating: 3.5/5

From the back cover:
“Question: Where’s the best place to hide an interstellar fugitive? Answer: Suburbia