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Summary: Weird and Wonderful
Review: Spencer just gets better and better - This one is great! The mystery is deeper and tangled; the old favorite characters from the first two books come back, but we get to see new depths (to the Pack, to Max, to Max's gun bunny girlfriend, even to Ukiah). I really recommend this book!and you can tell the author knows the Pittsburgh area! love the description of Bigelow Blvd and I-279 intersection!
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Summary: More solid fun with Ukiah the wolf-boy.
Review: This is the third in a series of books featuring 'Ukiah Oregon,' a 'wolf-boy' who was found running feral with wolves by a pair of lesbians, who, after hiring a private eye to try and locate his family - and failing to do so - raised him as their own. This wolf-boy, Ukiah, is an interesting character in and of himself, but things get complicated fast in his world. In the first book, 'Alien Taste,' and the second, 'Tainted Trail,' we learn that Ukiah is in fact an alien hybrid of strange DNA, and for all intents and purposes, cannot die (though parts of him that are cut, bled, or broken off tend to change into animal shapes and try to re-merge with him later when he wakes up. Ew.)
Now a full partner with the PI who first tried to find him, Ukiah is asked to help on a missing children case, and hasn't made much headway when his own 'child' (actually a portion of himself that managed to form a human baby on its own) is stolen. The stakes rise, cultists appear - but could the hive-mind-mentality Ontonguard be involved as well?
Well crafted, fun stuff, and light enough reading to be enjoyable on the bus. Thumbs up, in a mind-candy way.
'Nathan
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Summary: Wen just keeps on getting better and better!
Review: Wen Spencer's writing grows with each book. I got home yesterday after 8 days away to find my copy of Bitter Waters waiting for me. Finished it at 7 AM this morning. (Yawn!) It is absolutely amazing to see how well her writing improved from Alien Taste (pretty darn good) to Tainted Trail (yep, not a one book wonder) to Bitter Waters. This is a mature writer working here! And she's still eligible for the John W. Campbell Award in 2003 for Best New Writer!!! She ought to win hands-down. The ability Wen have manifested to climb into the heads of some very strange people (like Rennie, or even _Hex_) is terrific. Few SF writers write believable aliens, fewer still write believable human interactions with aliens from the alien point of view. Bravo! Buy this book. Better yet, buy Alien Taste and Tainted Trail and lose a weekend reading them all in sequence. ...
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Summary: Wen just keeps on getting better and better!
Review: Wen Spencer's writing grows with each book. I got home yesterday after 8 days away to find my copy of Bitter Waters waiting for me. Finished it at 7 AM this morning. (Yawn!) It is absolutely amazing to see how well her writing improved from Alien Taste (pretty darn good) to Tainted Trail (yep, not a one book wonder) to Bitter Waters. This is a mature writer working here! And she's still eligible for the John W. Campbell Award in 2003 for Best New Writer!!! She ought to win hands-down. The ability Wen have manifested to climb into the heads of some very strange people (like Rennie, or even _Hex_) is terrific. Few SF writers write believable aliens, fewer still write believable human interactions with aliens from the alien point of view. Bravo! Buy this book. Better yet, buy Alien Taste and Tainted Trail and lose a weekend reading them all in sequence. ...
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