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icygrl7's review
4.0
Illegal Alien is the first book in the Illegal Alien series by Carrie Harris. It is the first book that I have read by this author and I can't wait to get my hands on the next book in the series. I really liked Audrey. She was a great female heroine and very tough. I liked that she looked like a soccer mom but was a bad ass. She didn't let others bulldoze over her. She always got her man. She liked her job and working with her partner. Then things go horribly wrong and life as she knows it is about to change. She knows what she saw but it couldn't be. She is taking flack at the office too and it is spilling over into her home life. Her co-workers are teasing her mercilessly. Some are even lashing out at her and blaming her for things that were not her fault. She is going to get to the bottom of things even if it is the last thing she does. Will she be able to redeem herself? Will she ever find out what she saw? Will she get her man? Or will she end up paying the price for her choices? I would recommend Illegal Alien to anyone who enjoys a good sci-fi read with a strong female lead.
see_sadie_read's review
3.0
3.5
This was almost a four star book. Almost. It was a snarky, fun read. I loved that the main character was a full adult, with an adult child. You just don't see 40ish-year-old women as leads all that often. She's a cop and good at her job. She had female and platonic male friends. And she was appropriately skeptical when aliens came onto the scene. It's really a great set up.
For most of the book I was leaning toward a four star rating. Four, not five, because it felt a bit too slow. I just kept waiting for the pace to pick up and it didn't, until the very end. And it's that ending that lost it the further half a star. The book kind of ends where you'd expect the real story to begin, leaving the reader feeling abandoned. And while that's a great hook to pick up the next book, it feels manipulative to readers (or this reader). We've all become familiar with this technique, as we see it all the time in free prequel novellas to series and, though a bit too long to be a novella, it has that same not-a-stand-alone feel to it.
It's well-written and fun. So, I don't consider my time wasted. I do have a major gripe about the over though. I know it's a small thing, but it annoys me. The book started with the main character being mocked for her soccer-mom bob and this became a bit of a running gag. It's a thing in the book until she got it cut even shorter.........So, the long ponytail on the cover is wrong. And the ship too...
This was almost a four star book. Almost. It was a snarky, fun read. I loved that the main character was a full adult, with an adult child. You just don't see 40ish-year-old women as leads all that often. She's a cop and good at her job. She had female and platonic male friends. And she was appropriately skeptical when aliens came onto the scene. It's really a great set up.
For most of the book I was leaning toward a four star rating. Four, not five, because it felt a bit too slow. I just kept waiting for the pace to pick up and it didn't, until the very end. And it's that ending that lost it the further half a star. The book kind of ends where you'd expect the real story to begin, leaving the reader feeling abandoned. And while that's a great hook to pick up the next book, it feels manipulative to readers (or this reader). We've all become familiar with this technique, as we see it all the time in free prequel novellas to series and, though a bit too long to be a novella, it has that same not-a-stand-alone feel to it.
It's well-written and fun. So, I don't consider my time wasted. I do have a major gripe about the over though. I know it's a small thing, but it annoys me. The book started with the main character being mocked for her soccer-mom bob and this became a bit of a running gag. It's a thing in the book until she got it cut even shorter.........So, the long ponytail on the cover is wrong. And the ship too...
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