If you like overkill...and I mean literally!...this book is for you! A hunter of aliens, Daniel encounters more adventures (and some very ugly, smelly aliens they are) than one might think believable...of course, this implies that you believe in aliens...of course.
A quick read, James Patterson's novel once again takes the reader into the mind of a young adult who has almost more going against him than he has going for him. So alone that Daniel often lives in a "pretend" world where he re-creates friends and loved ones that have died...wait...haven't all of us at one time or another "pretended" we live in other situations, in more more perfect times with grand outcomes? Maybe that is part of the appeal of the novel? (Might read some book reviews on GoodReads, though, that dispute that theory. Just scroll down the page.)
As I turned the page from one smelly adventure to the next out-of-this world experience, I did find myself thinking that "kids are going to love this in movie format." Wonder who they have already cast as Daniel?
A fan of Maximum Ride, I am not convinced, having just read the first in this series, that this adventure about the hunt for those aliens that really do exist all around us (including neighoring galaxies)will gather the appeal of the mutant bird friends in the former seres.
But just in case it does? Yes, I will read the next one (for from the beginning Daniel tells the reader that this series will be the his autobiographry)...in hopes that Patterson rebuilds my faith in him as an author who has created some prior intriguing characters.
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