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Touched by an Alien
by Gini Koch
Katherine "Kitty" Katt is a marketing consultant who has just finished jury duty early, is leaving the courthouse, and witnesses a domestic dispute gone horribly wrong. The husband doesn't just yell at his wife; he sprouts wings and horns and starts shooting blades at the unfortunate wife and passers by. Horrified, but not immobilized, Kitty pulls a pen from her purse (a character in its own right), sprints and hurdles and drives that pen into a pink and pulsating thing at the base of the monster's wings, killing it.
Her courage and rapid action draws the immediate attention of intergalactic hot bodies, who recruit her to join their team in exterminating "superbeings" like the one she just killed. Throw in parents with professional secrets, humans and aliens battling together against another invading alien force, and some slightly bizarre excursions into interplanetary religion and ethnic cleansing, and it all makes for an exciting week for Miss Kitty Katt (and yes, she's heard every variation on the joke).
I'd really like to rate this one higher. The concept was interesting, the characters were engaging, and it was mostly pretty good. However, the author thinks something isn't romantic unless it's pornographically explicit, and I can't go there with her. I actually wonder if she wrote the book without it, and someone told her to stick it in to keep it interesting. Or, maybe, she just likes being nasty.
Also, if my husband ever called me "baby" in an effort to show affection or sincerity of feeling, I'd probably laugh in his face and tell to come up with a different pet name. "Baby" just doesn't work for me, and everytime the couple of focus used it I rolled my eyes.
Her courage and rapid action draws the immediate attention of intergalactic hot bodies, who recruit her to join their team in exterminating "superbeings" like the one she just killed. Throw in parents with professional secrets, humans and aliens battling together against another invading alien force, and some slightly bizarre excursions into interplanetary religion and ethnic cleansing, and it all makes for an exciting week for Miss Kitty Katt (and yes, she's heard every variation on the joke).
I'd really like to rate this one higher. The concept was interesting, the characters were engaging, and it was mostly pretty good. However, the author thinks something isn't romantic unless it's pornographically explicit, and I can't go there with her. I actually wonder if she wrote the book without it, and someone told her to stick it in to keep it interesting. Or, maybe, she just likes being nasty.
Also, if my husband ever called me "baby" in an effort to show affection or sincerity of feeling, I'd probably laugh in his face and tell to come up with a different pet name. "Baby" just doesn't work for me, and everytime the couple of focus used it I rolled my eyes.