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Roswell: Loose Ends

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4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

When I bought this book right after my beloved series ended, I thought I was in for a good read... I was wrong. This book was incredibly boring, completely unbelievably stupid (the storyline was really dumb), and extremely violent. I was really surprised at how much violence and killing in cold blood happened in this book. The book was really boring and stupid. All my other Roswell fanatic friends felt the same (at least 10 people). I would never read this book again. Any of the other Roswell books, about the series or the Roswell High books, are a hundred times better than this boring violent stupid novel.

This book is very disapointing. That is, if you've read the Roswell High series and keep up with the show, like me.

Having just finished #10 in Roswell High, I was disoriented in the caracter descriptions, both physicaly (in the RH series, Alex has red hair, for example) and psychologically. The way the caracters act and think correspond neither to the show or the original books. It's like if someone else was in their skin and it just doesn't feel right.

On top of that, I find the plot ridiculous, stupid and far-fetched. As if the author HAD to write a book and had no idea what about (no offence Greg).

It took me forever to finish reading it because I just couldn't get into it. This isn't very promising for the other books in this collection... Do yourselves a favor and treasure Melinda Metz's Roswell High books, she does, by far, a better job when it comes to develloping emotions and actions of our favorite out-of-this-world gang.

I've read this book twice because it is soooo good! The thing i like Best is everything. From the couples to the "skany homewrecker" Tess. It's funny and if you need a good Max and Liz moment read it! When i read it the second time it was better than the first time. So.... YOU.HAVE.TO.READ. LOOSE ENDS!!!

The plot is terrific. The characterizations are so-so and inconsistent. The villain is awful - not "he's a great bad guy," I mean written really terribly. It's the last that really sinks this otherwise good story.

Maria suggests her friend Liz and the perpetually serious alien cadre they hang out with get away from it all with a little trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Liz finds more than bats in the caves: the man who shot her two years before in the Crashdown Cafe is in the gift shop. Does he recognize her? If not, how long before he does? What should she do about it? Run? Call the cops? After all, officially, no one knows she was even injured - alien boyfriend Max healed her up, before anyone realized she'd been shot. The let-it-lie option evaporates quickly, when Max and his alien sister Isabel find out Liz's shooter is involved in some kind of scam with Air Force personnel - and, given their past fracases with the government, they have to find out what it's all about.

This book starts out great, and goes downhill fast. Its first flaw is the inconsistent and generally out-of-character portrayals of the principals. Non-series fans may not notice, anymore than they will the odd preoccupation Cox gives the characters with Tabasco sauce (an incidental running gag on the show, that Cox turns into something more), but of course series fans will be the primary purchasers of the novel.

Liz's shooter, the big bad guy of the piece, has the worst dialogue this side of a 1930's gangster movie, and that's no exaggeration. He doesn't actually say "coppers," but he might as well. He's also unbelievably careless and uncoordinated, for a man arranging sales of top secrets. He's just not very credible, in any department. His actions - and often those of the other characters as well - are bizarrely abrupt and inexplicable, even for a psychopath.

What the book does have going for it is the good story, a nice sense of humor, and likeable (if inconsistently accurate) central characters. If you can take the book's flaws, you might enjoy it, but it's not very indicative of the series as a whole and will probably disappoint most fans.

A trip to the Carlsbad Caverns to relax turns into a dangerous fame of cat and mouse for the three aliens and their three human friends. At the gift shop Liz sees the man who shot her teo years ago in the Crashdown café - and now Liz is running for her life. The shooter, Morton, is up to something devious and dangerous, and Max and the others are driven to find out what he has hidden in the black briefcase. This is one of the most dangerous adventures for the five Roswell teens because Morton has a gun and he is only too happy to use it.

I found this book difficult to get into at first because Greg Cox has a very unusual way of writing. The overall story though is both interesting, and action packed. If you really like the TV series then you should give this book a go - I took two days to read it, but it was worth it in the end when I finally put it down. There are facts that are wrong, but overall Cox has tried to remain faithful to the TV series.

If you can't stand this book, don't let it stop you from reading "No good deed". The books are very different, and if you don't enjoy this book you are bound to like the next one in the series.

This is a must have for fans of the Roswell High books and the TV series, although some of the Roswell info may be wrong its a really great book! I loved the way it was written and the storyline rocked! =0)

The only thing that makes this book similar to the Television Show are the names of the characters. The author thanks crashdown.com for giving him advice on the characters, and he obviously didn't listen to a word they said. You would think if he was going to attach his name to something, he would have taken the time to watch some of the shows that his story was supposed to have been based on. The perfect example is that the pod squad is always drinking tobasco sauce, something that just is not done. He obviously doesn't get it. Furthermore, his writing is completely amateurish. How many different ways is he going to call them teenagers? Why does he have to use their age as a description every single time he mentions one of them? Its absolutely rediculous. He spends way too much time in this book setting up the scene, and never really gets to the heart of Roswell, whether it is the science fiction side or the romantic side. You may be able to fool someone who has never watched the show, but if you have ever seen the show, or read any of Melinda Metz's Roswell High books, you will be highly dissappointed in this ripoff.

If you guys had read the 10 part book series, you would realize the book ties into the other books NOT the tv show. The book series came like a year before the tv show. The producers are the ones who didn't stick with the book series they took they took some key element from the book and went off in thier own direction after that. So yuo see this book rocked because it was a conclusion to and a begining at the same time to the roswell book series. It ended one chapter and began another chapter. So if your small minded and can only watch tv and expect a book to be tv you must realize books always come before tv's that's how producers get ideas, and if you reed more you'd realize a movie and it's book can be absolutely diffrent and it doesn't mean either is bad. So open your mind and if your SUCH a big roswell fan read the book series by melinda mentz and see how this AWFULL book in some people's POV is actually WONDERFUL.

I could not be more of a die-hard roswell fan, so I jumped at the chance to read this book. But, I, like some of the other reviewers, found that I could not for the life of me understand when exactly it was supposed to be set. Tess was gone, yet Alex was alive...huh? And also, I LOVED how Michael called Maria babe, (I am a candy girl) but hated how there wasn't much of them in this book. I s'pose No. 2 is about them anyway. Overall a definite read for all fans of the TV series!

This was a great book about roswell but it didn't focus on the more minor characters, such as Kyle or Valenti. It was really well written and you got to find out a lot more about the physcopath that accidentally shot Liz in the Crashdown. It constantly kept me on the edge of my seat and I never wanted to put it down.