Rating: 
Summary: Horrible book.
Review: This was a terrible book. I couldn't even finish it, I forced myself to read through about 3 quarters of the way and all it did was bore me. Why do all these books have to be more about the military than the aliens? This book was in no way imaginative, it wrote off Billy, Wilks and Ripley like they were nothing. They make drugs out of alien corpses and "royal jelly" all of this sounded interesting enough but even the three quarters of the book I read through they still hadn't even encountered an actuall live alien except for one flashback that started the book off and setting up the Kozlowski character. Speaking of characters, this book had no characters of any interest, they all seemed to be characters from the films with names of the actors from the movies. It had an nice little action piece that could have been really suspenseful where a soldier goes berzerk on the designer drug called Xeno-Zip (it's made of alien stuff, hence the name) and he becomes a one man war machine and rips apart an entire base and all it's soldiers, this would have been almost suspensful and entertaining but it wasn't, this was highly due to that fact that the characters were so lifeless it really didn't matter whether they lived or died. It was a sad attempt at a follow up to the fantastic Earth Hive series. I'll never understand. Do yourself a favor and not buy this book. Instead try the Earth Hive series for good aliens novels.
Rating: 
Summary: An adequate continuation of the series
Review: While Genocide's writing is technically better than that of the initial trilogy by Perry (better grammar and structure, et al.), it's no where near as adventurous or fun. The book opens with an action sequence that would have looked good on the big screen, but it was described in a kind of flat, unexciting way. Then, for the next 165 pages...NO ALIENS! This is an aliens novel, right? The characters are better developed than those in the trilogy, but they aren't as interesting, either. A bitter Corporal whose family have been killed by aliens. An optimistic businessman whose signed on just to escape from a loanshark. And the plot -- In the aftermath of the Earth-Alien War, a pharmacuetical company has started releasing an addictive drug known as fire, a drug that's addictive and enhances human senses, but they're running out of alien jelly, so they send people to the Alien Hiveworld to get some more. The comic was cool looking, and didn't need an excuse to be kind of dumb. This book was overlong, with adequate fight sequences and some interesting "future history" moments. If you like the series, try this one, if not, stay away.
Rating:
Summary: An adequate continuation of the series
Review: While Genocide's writing is technically better than that of the initial trilogy by Perry (better grammar and structure, et al.), it's no where near as adventurous or fun. The book opens with an action sequence that would have looked good on the big screen, but it was described in a kind of flat, unexciting way. Then, for the next 165 pages...NO ALIENS! This is an aliens novel, right? The characters are better developed than those in the trilogy, but they aren't as interesting, either. A bitter Corporal whose family have been killed by aliens. An optimistic businessman whose signed on just to escape from a loanshark. And the plot -- In the aftermath of the Earth-Alien War, a pharmacuetical company has started releasing an addictive drug known as fire, a drug that's addictive and enhances human senses, but they're running out of alien jelly, so they send people to the Alien Hiveworld to get some more. The comic was cool looking, and didn't need an excuse to be kind of dumb. This book was overlong, with adequate fight sequences and some interesting "future history" moments. If you like the series, try this one, if not, stay away.
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