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Title: Alien Taste by Wen Spencer ISBN: 0-451-45837-0 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique and fascinating!
Comment: Set in the Pittsburgh, Pa area in the near future, this book is the story of the foundling, Ukiah Oregon. He was found caught in a humane wolf trap, appearing to be a young child, naked and gnawing on a rabbit. The woman who found him desparately wanted a child, and took him home to Pennsylvania with her.
Time has passed and Ukiah is now assumed to be 21 and is the partner of Max, a private investigator with a sad past of his own. Ukiah is an extraordinary tracker and has made a name for himself by finding missing persons. So the police call him in on a mysterious murder that turns out to be much more than it seems.
I don't want to give away any of the twists and turns of this fascinating book, but I will at least tell you that Ukiah finds out that his past is much more strange than he ever thought.
Great characters, interesting and well-fleshed out. His father-figure, Max; the mysterious biker gang, Ukiah's two Moms, and Ukiah's girl, tough-talking FBI agent Indigo Zheng--they are all just wonderful. And there is a conspiracy that any X-Files fan will love.
Rating: 5
Summary: Different but excellent
Comment: No one really knows how old allegedly twenty-one years old Ukiah Oregon is. He was found caught in a wolf trap when he was approximately twelve. The woman who captured Ukiah took him to Pittsburgh so she and her female mate Lara could have a child since the courts ignored adoption efforts by a same sex couple.
Now Ukiah works with private detective Max Bennett. Ukiah is a world-class tracker who can find a trail with the faintest of clues. There are other oddities about Ukiah. His olfactory, taste, and hearing senses are much more acute than the average person's and he can read DNA with another unknown sense. He has suffered strange memory losses that only sometimes he regains. On one of his cases, Ukiah learns about The Pack, a loose coalition of bikers who take a sudden interest in him. When he finds out why, he also learns he is the key to saving the human race.
ALIEN TASTE is an urban science fiction tale that takes place on earth in three years. However, new technological advances make the reader feel that Wen Spencer's tale takes place much further into the future. The characters are fully developed and understandable and The Pack is likable in a feral sort of way. This novel is keeper shelf material and hopefully Mr. Spencer will return with more tales starring the Pack.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Ukiah? Oregon? Right on!!
Comment: I will admit, I picked this book up because the main character is named after a tiny town in my home State. I laughed out loud. People stared. I could not believe that an author had chosen such a name, but then...I read the backs of the first three books and they screamed READ me!!
The premise is crazy and some times you have to slow down to let it all sink in. I think Wen Spencer is coo-koo, but in a good way. The imagination is a wonderful thing and you can make a story anything you want it to be if you can make it believable.
Ms. Spencer has made Ukiah, his past and his abilities likable and lovable. Ukiah is a private investigator/tracker and with Max his partner/friend/mentor/father figure and his extended family the Pack you are in for a wild ride and a stretch for what you thought was possible. Spencer weaves a tight story, great characters and infinate imagination into every page.
All I can say is, if you are reading this review, buy the books, you won't regret it.
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Title: Bitter Waters by Wen Spencer ISBN: 0451459229 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tinker by Wen Spencer ISBN: 0743471652 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Blade Dancer by S. L. Viehl ISBN: 0451459261 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher ISBN: 0451459407 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Balance of Trade (Liaden Universe) by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Steven Miller ISBN: 1592220193 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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