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Summary: Good Sci-Fi
Review: I'm not a big Science Fiction reader, but I've read the four books in this series and found them quite enjoyable. There were a few glitches that did not bode well with reality, but I shrugged it off. After all, if I wanted to read a true to life book, I would have chosen a realistic fiction.
The main character is very likable. His sometimes childlike innocense mixed with deep wisdom (from where, not even he knows) makes you want to love him.
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Summary: Something Tasty Indeed!
Review: I've read and re-read Alien Taste several times now and still find myself noticing things that I hadn't in the past. The story line is a different twist on the "alien invasion" theme and will grab your attention quite quickly.
The characters in the book, Ukiah, Max and the others are believably written and very well developed, which can be unusual in books of this kind. The action and suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat, and (for many) will have the hair on the back of your neck standing straight up !Definitely well worth reading, and a series well worth buying. Enjoy!
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Summary: Original idea!!!
Review: It seems so hard to find a truly original idea now a days. Luckily Wen Spencer found one! ALIEN TASTE is truly original. At first glance one might think it's just a story about a wolf boy but it goes way beyond that. Way beyond. The characters are interesting and well written. Much like Ukiah's missing memories that return, the underlying storyline creeps up at you slowly, giving you mere hints of what is truly happening. The ending will surprise you, the characters will draw you in, the book will end too soon.
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Summary: Different but excellent
Review: No one really knows how old allegedly twenty-one years old Ukiah Oregon is. He was found caught in a wolf trap when he was approximately twelve. The woman who captured Ukiah took him to Pittsburgh so she and her female mate Lara could have a child since the courts ignored adoption efforts by a same sex couple. Now Ukiah works with private detective Max Bennett. Ukiah is a world-class tracker who can find a trail with the faintest of clues. There are other oddities about Ukiah. His olfactory, taste, and hearing senses are much more acute than the average person's and he can read DNA with another unknown sense. He has suffered strange memory losses that only sometimes he regains. On one of his cases, Ukiah learns about The Pack, a loose coalition of bikers who take a sudden interest in him. When he finds out why, he also learns he is the key to saving the human race. ALIEN TASTE is an urban science fiction tale that takes place on earth in three years. However, new technological advances make the reader feel that Wen Spencer's tale takes place much further into the future. The characters are fully developed and understandable and The Pack is likable in a feral sort of way. This novel is keeper shelf material and hopefully Mr. Spencer will return with more tales starring the Pack. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Unique and fascinating!
Review: Set in the Pittsburgh, Pa area in the near future, this book is the story of the foundling, Ukiah Oregon. He was found caught in a humane wolf trap, appearing to be a young child, naked and gnawing on a rabbit. The woman who found him desparately wanted a child, and took him home to Pennsylvania with her. Time has passed and Ukiah is now assumed to be 21 and is the partner of Max, a private investigator with a sad past of his own. Ukiah is an extraordinary tracker and has made a name for himself by finding missing persons. So the police call him in on a mysterious murder that turns out to be much more than it seems. I don't want to give away any of the twists and turns of this fascinating book, but I will at least tell you that Ukiah finds out that his past is much more strange than he ever thought. Great characters, interesting and well-fleshed out. His father-figure, Max; the mysterious biker gang, Ukiah's two Moms, and Ukiah's girl, tough-talking FBI agent Indigo Zheng--they are all just wonderful. And there is a conspiracy that any X-Files fan will love.
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Summary: High Speed Sci-Fi
Review: Speed.... High Speed. That's the way to describe this novell. You follow an "former" wolf-boy, with special ablities. You get no rest when you start to read this book. Even in the end of the novell, when it gets very SF, you want to know how it ends.
I liked this story very much.
The only downfall is the small size of the novell. 200 pages more would have been nice.
Anyway, a must-read.
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Summary: EXCITING NEW TWIST ON A OLD THEME!
Review: Take your basic "boy raised by wolves" and "father was an alien" stories, combine them, and you get a very enjoyable book. Lot of action. Memorable characters.
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Summary: Alien Taste
Review: The best review I can give this book is to say I will read it again. Any book worth reading again will be a classic. I would like to see more of this authors work.
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Summary: Good characters, not-so-good science
Review: The characters, some of which I could relate to at a deep level, pushed this book to three stars for me. I definitely enjoyed following the people through a complex situation--though some of it was a little too predictable, like the romance. I'd like to see a little more complexity in loving relationships for me to feel that it's real. Some of the science just didn't work. For instance, near the end of the story, during the climatic moment in a Earth-based Mars-rover control room, the speed of light delay for transmissions from Earth to Mars (and back) conveniently disappear. Here was a pivotal moment in the story ruined by an amateurish mistake, one that pulled me out of the story completely. Only the convincing characters compelled me to begin reading again--and this took awhile. The novel was a good effort, and I look forward to seeing what Wen Spencer will accomplish in the future.
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Summary: A decent try ruined by bad writing
Review: The concept is interesting enough. The characters could be engaging. But ultimately this novel falls flat. The dialog is very poorly written. And while science fiction writers can certainly assume a number of improbable things it is best to be parsimonious. The author dishes them out in medium-large expository lumps. On the whole, it was a bit too much like watching a remake of "The Thing" set in Pittsburgh.
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