Blurb:
Sci-fi action meets steamy paranormal in Gini Koch’s Alien novels, as Katherine “Kitty” Katt faces off against aliens, conspiracies, and deadly secrets. • “Futuristic high-jinks and gripping adventure.” —RT Reviews
It’s a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, made more stressful when alien spacecraft are spotted making a beeline for Earth, none of them from the Alpha Centauri system.
Then a cryptic request from an old adversary pulls Kitty out of the White House and into an explosion—and an even more explosive situation. Not only is the Mastermind back in the game, influencing the Club 51 True Believers to find and destroy all Centaurion bases, but he’s also found a dangerous benefactor and created some frightening new cloning abilities.
And, just to make things a little more challenging, those alien spacecraft are coming to ask Kitty for protection, and asylum on Earth. Police stations being blown up and war helicopters in play aren’t enoughto keep Kitty down, especially when she’s got some new alien friends helping out.
But what these aliens share will rock the world—the other aliens on theirway to Earth are fleeing an enemy so terrifying that even a Z’porrah ship is trying to get to Earth for safety and protection. And if Earth isn’t able to stop this threat, there may not be anything left of humanity.
Now Kitty and Company have to figure out where the Mastermind is and stop him, before any new aliens land. And then they have to save the world from a deadly invasion. Or, as Kitty calls it, Thursday.
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My review:
4.75 out of 5 stars
Alien Nation by Gini Koch is part of the genre-twisting ‘Alien’ series, this story
combines science fiction, fantasy, paranormal romance, and adventure elements
into another suspenseful tale as mostly human Katherine (Kitty) Katt-Martini
and her hunky Alpha Centauri hubby Jeff marshal friends, family and allies to
deal with an alien invasion that is fleeing an horrific menace that will
literally change every being it comes into contact with. Finding a way to cozy
up to those who definitely look different from what she is used to will be only
one thing that Kitty needs to conquer but she’s never backed down from a
challenge yet and she is definitely not going to start now…when EVERYONE’s life
is at stake.
This book features
another delightful and exciting adventure with First Lady
Kitty Katt-Martini and the rest of the larger-than-life folks in her circle.
The FLOTUS is learning the ‘power of the paw’ in addition to a few other perks
of the office, but the crises are still arriving fast and furious, and problems
are increasing astronomically. With her usual inimitable style and aplomb,
Kitty kicks butt with enthusiasm accompanied by an impressive playlist that
represent not-so-subtle clues from one of her allies, working around
constraints imposed.
It’s always amazing to me how this author can address
current issues with such flair and provide a wondrously entertaining story with
her portrait of the dangers of bigotry and the importance of acceptance and
appreciation for the contributions that can be made by those who are very
different from us. I am always vastly entertained by the creatures who populate
these stories, and wow, the images of the Turleens swooping around doing their
Gamera imitation while helping Kitty save the day had me laughing out loud. The
amazing thing about Gini’s stories is that they are SO outlandish and
chock-full of pop culture references and musical clues that one can spend hours
captivated by the imagery. Add in an exciting story…who can help being nervous
when the BAD GUYS are FLEEING something…plus a few puzzles (like who is
Patricia and what did she do to be featured as such a horrible alien race,
lol), cameos by some of one’s favorite characters, and the ongoing love affair
between the main characters, and one can disappear into one of these hefty
books for days.
Those who are unfamiliar with the series should definitely
start at the beginning (one of these days, these thick books need to be made even
thicker by a list of characters to help us keep track of who’s who) but be
advised that only those who love sarcastic wit and wonderfully exciting
larger-than-life adventures will appreciate these comic-book-on-steroids tomes
that combine humor, self-honesty, loyalty, and the excitement of an ongoing
struggle for identity in a world that is getting smaller but no less important
in terms of the universe. I have to wonder how the author is able to keep
raising the bar in her ability to combine wacky with relevant but I definitely
appreciate her talents and look forward to more tales in this fantastic series
even though it apparently has a planned endpoint that is rapidly approaching.
A copy of this title was provided to me for review, a version of which was submitted to Night Owl Reviews
And...to show how far behind I am...the sequel has just released! I am looking forward to reading it...but unfortunately there are (quite) a few in line ahead of it, drat!
I've seen a lot of people liking this one recently.
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