The book was an OK read, but I was left wanting more. Hopefully 2012 will resolve things. ( )

This book took me forever to read because I expected it to suck. To my surprise it really didn't. I was under the impression that this book was written to "prove" that Grays are here -- that it was "nonfiction". It is anything but -- it's a great work of fiction and really enjoyable! Course, I have been really enjoying SciFi stories of late.

Adrianne ( )

Well, what started out promising didn't really cash in. I have seriously mixed feelings about this review. On one hand, I feel like it was probably better than 2 stars, but it's simply too hokey to be a solid 3. We'll call it a 2.5.

The writing is good. I enjoy Strieber's style in this book enough that I'll probably try more of his work later. The reader is very good too, Stephen Lang. I've listened to him before and I've always been pleased with him.

As I said, Strieber does carry a story along pretty well. But despite that, some of his ideas are out there. I can deal with alien abduction theories, and I can even deal with the fact that the man believes that he's experienced it himself. Whatever. This is a story and I can suspend disbelief.

If the author does his job. Some of the crap was just too cheesy and unbelievable. Some of it straight out didn't make any sense. And it got to the point that I didn't care about most of the characters.

They started out interesting, but wore thin by the end. The main couple were very intriguing in the prologue but by the end of the book I wanted something to abduct them and never bring them back.

Like I said, the idea was interesting and I think Strieber has a talent for writing. This just fell short of what could have been. ( )

Fabulous storyline makes up for the bland-ish writing style. Characters a bit flat, too... but all in all a very entertaining and fascinating read. ( )

The content of this book was quite interesting, but the book still seemed to act like a double dose of Tylenol PM. I think this is largely due to the fact that this novel is very poorly written. The structure of the book is just awful. ( )

In an attempt to cover everything, Strieber manages to only skim many of the issues and themes of the novel.

Characters emotions are unrealistic; there seems to be no degrees of emotions, i.e., characters are either extremely happy or extremely angry or extremely frightened. This occurs even before the mounting tension of the plot.

Settings would change mid-paragraph without informing the reader, leading to confusion during action sequences.

Overall, this book should have been longer to allow for more exploration, and an editor should have been a little more demanding of the author. This is not one of Strieber's better works. ( )

I was prepared to not like this, but ended up reading it in less than 48 hours. It turned out to be a page turner...very believable (for those of us willing to suspend our disbelief just a bit) Fans of Communion will not be disappointed. I was a little let down by the ending, and it seems to have been set up for a sequel...lots of dangling ends. ( )