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A review by apostrophen
Alien Taste by Wen Spencer
4.0
This was a solid character-driven bit of Sci-Fi, and I quite liked it. I do hope it's the start of a series, but it stands alone quite well.
Ukiah Oregon was found in the wild, raised by wolves, and taken in by two women (Lesbian moms! Yay Wen Spencer!) and raised as their son. He grew into being a tracker for a private detective agency, because for some reason he has gifts - he can track DNA, can pull pictures in his head out of blood, and, most importantly, has a photographic memory that never fails.
Until he is assaulted in the woods by a woman he is tracking, and finds gaps in his memory, and suddenly, the strangeness of his own DNA is becoming quite central to his chances for survival: there are other people out there like him, and they very well might not be human...
Very well done! I'm happy to have found Spencer, and will have to look up and see what else might be out there by this author.
Ukiah Oregon was found in the wild, raised by wolves, and taken in by two women (Lesbian moms! Yay Wen Spencer!) and raised as their son. He grew into being a tracker for a private detective agency, because for some reason he has gifts - he can track DNA, can pull pictures in his head out of blood, and, most importantly, has a photographic memory that never fails.
Until he is assaulted in the woods by a woman he is tracking, and finds gaps in his memory, and suddenly, the strangeness of his own DNA is becoming quite central to his chances for survival: there are other people out there like him, and they very well might not be human...
Very well done! I'm happy to have found Spencer, and will have to look up and see what else might be out there by this author.