M. J. Howes

7/10, this was an underwhelming novel, yet I still enjoyed this one despite its quality. The concept wasn’t that original since I’ve read books involving aliens before, but the book tried to be original by changing the aliens to not kill people but to rather eat them. The story itself is quite basic due to its writing style and if it wasn’t for the gruesome scenes this would have been a middle grade science fiction novel and not a young adult one. At the start of the story the aliens captured the main character, Lola, and sent her into a prison ship to wait for someone but suddenly there was a compassionate alien whose name I forgot who came out of nowhere to help her escape and free the humans. Then more aliens who couldn’t even speak English and looked like big slugs sent Lola away to a mothership with an arena where people fight to the death and strangely the aliens try to suck their blood and the ending felt a bit contrived since the aliens flew away when a character called Patrick activated a secret exploding pill and blew up one of the aliens’ ships so I felt a bit confused because that part of the world building wasn’t fully explored. If you like an obscure yet not so original novel that is quick to read this one is for you but if you want a better science fiction novel try 1984 by George Orwell instead of this.… (mehr)