Debbie's Spurts

This reader's personal opinion, ©2012, all rights reserved.* 

Series has potential; lots of interesting elements even beyond the premise of earth girl meeting alien.

PROs: any sitcom, rock group, science fiction series or movies--all there. Heroine gets kickass moments and usually outsmarts the men. Science gets explained. Arch--arch comments, arch villains, arched eyebrows, an arch/snarky tone overall…and CONs: repeat all the preceding. All too implausible for me.

Series could get good; but, I could not get into past opening chapters that had fast paced action and vivid writing. (Those opening chapters in the sample I checked out before buying were misleading.) Never really got into main character as she, like the story, really jumped around a lot and tried too hard to be too cute and too funny.

Really did not work for me when it was relentlessly jumping from spoof to pseudo-science info dumps to sex scenes to religion and moralizing to heroine über perceptive when story wanted or dense when plot needed. Lengthy infodumps of attempted science in one chapter blithely refuted with another long infodump in others. Chick lit clichés like pulling in strange family dynamics worked better than the attempt to pull in the science.

Did have some chuckles and writing good overall if uneven; so, if rest of series gets a better flow could be good. If I had not been reading for a goodreads group game, I would have set aside to read in spurts between other books and probably liked better. Reading all at once was actually tiring. More suited to a set of shorter graphic novels.

My reading progress updates from goodreads:

*©2012. All rights reserved except permission is granted to author or publisher to reprint/quote in whole or in part. Copyrightholder posted on booklikes, The Reading Room and may have cross-posted to other book sites. Posting on any site does not grant that site permission to share with any third parties.

Ratings scale used in absence of a booklikes suggested rating scale:

★★★★★ = All Time Favorite 
★★★★½ = Extraordinary Book. Really Loved It.
★★★★☆ = Loved It.
★★★½☆ = Really Liked.
★★★☆☆ = Liked.
★★½☆☆ = Liked parts; parts only okay. Would read more by author.
★★☆☆☆ = Meh. Okay. 
★½☆☆☆ = Disliked but kept me reading in hopes would get better.
★☆☆☆☆ = Loathed It. Possibly DNF and a torturous read.
½☆☆☆☆ = So vile was a DNF or should have been. An "uploaded" word spew or collection that should not be dignified by calling itself a "published book." Author should take remedial classes for language written in until basic concepts like using sentences sink in. Is author even old enough to sign a publishing contract or do they need a legal guardian to sign for them? Cannot imagine anyone liking.