{"id":2047,"date":"2013-02-04T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:43:01","slug":"book-review-alien-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Alien in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Alien in the Family is the third book in this bizarre comic-book style science fiction series that I continue to read for reasons beyond understanding. It’s like when you’re watching a really bad movie or TV series, and you know it’s bad, but it’s bad in a specific way, and you can’t take your eyes off of it even though you know you should. That’s what this is. In fact, it would make a great TV series. If by great you mean people will continue to watch it for years after it stopped being good because there is something about that wish-fulfillment fantasy that speaks to the average American viewer. Like Heroes.<\/p>\n

What can I say? Super-sexy aliens, intergalactic danger, and a wedding. This book wasn’t as good as the first two books in the series for one reason: The last quarter of it was given over to a long, drawn out description of wedding prep and an actual wedding. I think the author may have been having more fun with her fantasy wedding than I was. I’d recommend skipping that part — seriously, nothing else happens.<\/p>\n

Still, on to the next book in the series!<\/p>\n

Rating: 2.5\/5<\/p>\n

Title: Alien in the Family<\/p>\n

Author: Gini Koch<\/p>\n

Genre: Cheesy Sci-fi (the cheese is important. It’s a soft cheese, or maybe a curd cheese, like cottage cheese)<\/p>\n

Published\u00a0April 5th 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alien in the Family is the third book in this bizarre comic-book style science fiction series that I continue to read for reasons beyond understanding. It’s like when you’re watching a really bad movie or TV series, and you know it’s bad, but it’s bad in a specific way, and you can’t take your eyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[640,141,69,26,135,81,111,126,18,19,80],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-science-fiction-what-im-reading","tag-cassie-scot","tag-cheesy-science-fiction","tag-christine-amsden","tag-fantasy","tag-gini-koch","tag-mystery","tag-new-adult","tag-paranormal","tag-review","tag-romance","tag-urban-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}