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Summary: A great novel based on characters from the TV series.
Review: Liz would have died when she was accidentally shot in the diner two years ago if Max hadn't used his powers to save her life. But she never believed she would see the man who nearly killed her again. Which is why she gets the shock of her life when she runs into him on a weekend trip with her friends to Carlsbad Canyons. Isabel uses her dreamwalking power and discovers that the shooter - whose name is Morton - recognized Liz and is now out to kill her so that she can't turn him in. But the group also discovers that Morton is part of a mysterious conspiracy that connects to the crash and concerns some technology that is suspiciously alien in nature. Liz must face her fears if she is going to survive - but how can she confront the man that nearly killed her? I reccomend this new novel to all fans of the TV series Roswell. The author did a great job with the characters.
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Summary: Loose Ends, Exciting and Suspencefull
Review: Mr Cox has rendered an exciting suspencefull situation that keeps you hooked until the end. I love the Liz character and enjoyed it that she had such a central roll in this book. The fact that Alex was still around and the T personality was not was refreshing, it gave me the wonderful season 1 group that worked out things together with mentions of season 2 happenings. Mr Cox made reference to the story line of the WB show Roswell quite successfully, with the only exception being that Liz and Max are a couple in the book.I hope you all enjoy reading this book as much as I did and that Mr Cox writes many more stories for us to enjoy.
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Summary: Very Exciting Roswell Edition!
Review: Roswell is the best show in TV history and I am glad to find a writer who knows so much about the show! The book relates to all sorts of episodes like "The Pilot", "Surprise", "The White Room", and so many more! The book is very exciting and suspensful- I recommend it to any Roswell fan or even someone who pokes around the show every now and again! I hope to buy some other Roswell books from Greg Cox in this awesome series!
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Summary: Roswell Rocks
Review: The only thing that makes this book similar to the Television Show are the names of the characters. The author thanks crashdown.com for giving him advice on the characters, and he obviously didn't listen to a word they said. You would think if he was going to attach his name to something, he would have taken the time to watch some of the shows that his story was supposed to have been based on. The perfect example is that the pod squad is always drinking tobasco sauce, something that just is not done. He obviously doesn't get it. Furthermore, his writing is completely amateurish. How many different ways is he going to call them teenagers? Why does he have to use their age as a description every single time he mentions one of them? Its absolutely rediculous. He spends way too much time in this book setting up the scene, and never really gets to the heart of Roswell, whether it is the science fiction side or the romantic side. You may be able to fool someone who has never watched the show, but if you have ever seen the show, or read any of Melinda Metz's Roswell High books, you will be highly dissappointed in this ripoff.
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Summary: How could you let him use the word Roswell?
Review: The only thing that makes this book similar to the Television Show are the names of the characters. The author thanks crashdown.com for giving him advice on the characters, and he obviously didn't listen to a word they said. You would think if he was going to attach his name to something, he would have taken the time to watch some of the shows that his story was supposed to have been based on. The perfect example is that the pod squad is always drinking tobasco sauce, something that just is not done. He obviously doesn't get it. Furthermore, his writing is completely amateurish. How many different ways is he going to call them teenagers? Why does he have to use their age as a description every single time he mentions one of them? Its absolutely rediculous. He spends way too much time in this book setting up the scene, and never really gets to the heart of Roswell, whether it is the science fiction side or the romantic side. You may be able to fool someone who has never watched the show, but if you have ever seen the show, or read any of Melinda Metz's Roswell High books, you will be highly dissappointed in this ripoff.
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Summary: Gangsta Rap Roswell
Review: The plot is terrific. The characterizations are so-so and inconsistent. The villain is awful - not "he's a great bad guy," I mean written really terribly. It's the last that really sinks this otherwise good story.Maria suggests her friend Liz and the perpetually serious alien cadre they hang out with get away from it all with a little trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Liz finds more than bats in the caves: the man who shot her two years before in the Crashdown Cafe is in the gift shop. Does he recognize her? If not, how long before he does? What should she do about it? Run? Call the cops? After all, officially, no one knows she was even injured - alien boyfriend Max healed her up, before anyone realized she'd been shot. The let-it-lie option evaporates quickly, when Max and his alien sister Isabel find out Liz's shooter is involved in some kind of scam with Air Force personnel - and, given their past fracases with the government, they have to find out what it's all about. This book starts out great, and goes downhill fast. Its first flaw is the inconsistent and generally out-of-character portrayals of the principals. Non-series fans may not notice, anymore than they will the odd preoccupation Cox gives the characters with Tabasco sauce (an incidental running gag on the show, that Cox turns into something more), but of course series fans will be the primary purchasers of the novel. Liz's shooter, the big bad guy of the piece, has the worst dialogue this side of a 1930's gangster movie, and that's no exaggeration. He doesn't actually say "coppers," but he might as well. He's also unbelievably careless and uncoordinated, for a man arranging sales of top secrets. He's just not very credible, in any department. His actions - and often those of the other characters as well - are bizarrely abrupt and inexplicable, even for a psychopath. What the book does have going for it is the good story, a nice sense of humor, and likeable (if inconsistently accurate) central characters. If you can take the book's flaws, you might enjoy it, but it's not very indicative of the series as a whole and will probably disappoint most fans.
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Summary: Gangsta Rap Roswell
Review: The plot is terrific. The characterizations are so-so and inconsistent. The villain is awful - not "he's a great bad guy," I mean written really terribly. It's the last that really sinks this otherwise good story. Maria suggests her friend Liz and the perpetually serious alien cadre they hang out with get away from it all with a little trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Liz finds more than bats in the caves: the man who shot her two years before in the Crashdown Cafe is in the gift shop. Does he recognize her? If not, how long before he does? What should she do about it? Run? Call the cops? After all, officially, no one knows she was even injured - alien boyfriend Max healed her up, before anyone realized she'd been shot. The let-it-lie option evaporates quickly, when Max and his alien sister Isabel find out Liz's shooter is involved in some kind of scam with Air Force personnel - and, given their past fracases with the government, they have to find out what it's all about. This book starts out great, and goes downhill fast. Its first flaw is the inconsistent and generally out-of-character portrayals of the principals. Non-series fans may not notice, anymore than they will the odd preoccupation Cox gives the characters with Tabasco sauce (an incidental running gag on the show, that Cox turns into something more), but of course series fans will be the primary purchasers of the novel. Liz's shooter, the big bad guy of the piece, has the worst dialogue this side of a 1930's gangster movie, and that's no exaggeration. He doesn't actually say "coppers," but he might as well. He's also unbelievably careless and uncoordinated, for a man arranging sales of top secrets. He's just not very credible, in any department. His actions - and often those of the other characters as well - are bizarrely abrupt and inexplicable, even for a psychopath. What the book does have going for it is the good story, a nice sense of humor, and likeable (if inconsistently accurate) central characters. If you can take the book's flaws, you might enjoy it, but it's not very indicative of the series as a whole and will probably disappoint most fans.
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Summary: Max and Liz's Past
Review: This book does a very good job of bringing back a major event for Max and Liz. The shooter of the Crashdown makes an apperance at a cave that the teens are visiting for the weekend. The only difference is that this guy has something to do with the aliens other than the fact that he shot Liz. He has something from their past that could prove useful in the future. Max and Liz react differently to their past coming back to haunt them. Anyone that reads this book will be as addicted as I am. I could not put it down until I finished it. This book will hopefully also allow people to want to watch the television show that the book is based on. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes science fiction with a little action.
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Summary: Roswell Raves
Review: This book is a great kick off to the new suspense series! The next book,No Good Deeds, I`m sure will be as great! This book is a dream come true to all the Dreamers, Stargazers, CandyGirls, and over all Roswellians.
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Summary: Liz and Max's Past
Review: This book is amazing. It is a good idea by the writer to elaborate on the past of Max and Liz. Bringing the shooter back is exactly what the fans of this show need. Many have always wondered what happened to the shooter and why Max and Liz repressed how they felt about the shooting. This book does a wonderful job of bringing out their feelings of the past. I hope there are more books to come and I hope that more people will give this book and the series a chance. I started reading this book and could not put it down until I finished it.
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