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nixwhittaker's review
5.0
The action picks up as we add in a new player. A group of humans have discovered the aliens and think they are demons and try to destroy them. They bring a world of hurt down on them when they start kidnapping babies.
alesia_charles's review
5.0
The third volume adds a new element - a group of fanatics whose leader has interpreted the Ontongard as demons, and who've been startlingly effective at fighting them due to combining that belief with empirical study and modern technology. That combo is why I give this one five stars; that and the fact that the Temple of New Reason are more interesting opponents, character-wise, than the Ontongard. They've captured some alien technology and, due to flaws in their translation of Ontongard communications and their leader's insanity, think they're going to wipe out the aliens. They are wrong, wrong, wrong, which is why Ukiah and the Pack have to stop them rather than ally with them.
Also features a genetically-engineered drug and an excellent climactic battle scene.
Also features a genetically-engineered drug and an excellent climactic battle scene.
apostrophen's review
4.0
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.
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.
vkemp's review
2.0
Ukiah Oregon is called upon to track his own son. Kittanning is kidnapped by a fanatical religious cult who have discovered pieces of the alien technology brough to Earth by the same aliens who created him. This book was not quite as good as the previous books because there was little explanation as to how the nut jobs could have figured out the technology. It threw me out of the story, trying to figure that out. I still enjoyed the story and I like the characters and there was a happy ending, so everything worked out. Lots of action in this one, including an exciting water race on the rivers surrounding Pittsburgh.
brian's review
3.0
Book three in the Ukiah Orgeon series.
This didn't grab me as much as the first two. His opponents seem to have been placed in his way just to give him something to do, and the alien weapons that he suddenly remembers and starts thinking about seemed a bit too pat.
Ukiah gets a bit more page time to himself in this book and its good to see him develop away from all the other people who influence him.
This didn't grab me as much as the first two. His opponents seem to have been placed in his way just to give him something to do, and the alien weapons that he suddenly remembers and starts thinking about seemed a bit too pat.
Ukiah gets a bit more page time to himself in this book and its good to see him develop away from all the other people who influence him.
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