Jack Hunter and Anna Lenai, recently married, are experiencing difficulty adjusting to life on Earth after their experiences with shape-shifting alien monsters.
This book gave me the same fun and free feeling I got from reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Just a bit more… serious.
In spite of Jack and Anna’s recent adventures, their biggest challenge is finding job in a failing economy while passing for regular people. Anna yearns for a normal life and finds solace in new friends, but when a hideous human-eating monster emerges from a wormhole close to St. Louis, their peace is shattered.
This charming plot offers action, suspense, and complicated characters with a blend of science fiction and thriller themes. The novel also seems to focus a lot on the idea of fitting in as an outsider.
Fans of both sci-fi fantasy and espionage thrillers will be enthralled with this blend of the two genres as well as the underlying issues of identity.
First read rating: 3. stars
Overall Rating: 3.75 stars
My ratings are based on premise, and I definitely enjoyed this book as a sci-fi crossover.