***** - Excellent
**** - Good
*** - Okay
** - Bad
* - Terrible
+ - Half-star
Roswell High: The Outsiders
(Roswell High series, Book 1)
Melinda Metz
Pocket Pulse
Fiction, YA Sci-Fi
****
DESCRIPTION: Liz and Maria have lived their whole lives in Roswell, New Mexico, a small town made famous by the alleged downing of UFOs nearby in 1947. Despite the
many tourist traps, and even the theme of the diner Liz's dad runs and they both work in (the Crashdown Cafe), neither one of them believes the stories of government cover-ups,
little grey aliens... or even the possibility of survivors.
Shot by a stray bullet during a fight, Liz's life is unexpectedly - and inexplicably - saved by Max Evans. A fellow student at their high school, Max is handsome, quiet, and full
of secrets... such as the fact that he's an alien, a survivor of the 1947 crash. Learning the truth about Max leads Liz and her best friend into a world where the paranoia,
questions, and confusion of the Roswell crash continue to this day. Some secrets can be deadly...
(The Roswell High books form the basis for the defunct Roswell TV series.)
REVIEW: I came into this series at a disadvantage, having watched the series on the WB network since the premiere. The cover claims that the Roswell High books
are "the books that started it all," but of course there are significant differences between the text and the televised version. I found myself being distracted by these
variations (perpetuated, perhaps, by the TV cast photo on a book where the main character descriptions don't match the actors), but despite that it was a fairly good story. I'm
looking forward to the day that my budget allows me to obtain the next installments.
(As for the TV series, after a promising first year, it tanked miserably, destroyed by internal forces. Despite pulling off a surprisingly redeeming series finale, it's not worth
watching.)
You might also enjoy:
The X-Files: Fight the Future (Chris Carter, adapted by Elizabeth Hand, Fiction - Two FBI agents seek evidence of a global conspiracy hiding malevolent aliens on Earth)
Quozl (Alan Dean Foster, Fiction - An colony ship arrives at its new planet, only to find that Earth is already inhabited)
Forbidden Mind (Kimberly Kinrade, YA Fiction - A telepathic teen girl in a secret school learns what really happens after her classmates "graduate")
Sweep: Book of Shadows (Cate Tiernan, YA Fiction - A Catholic teen girl finds herself drawn to a handsome new boy in school and his hidden world of ancient witchcraft)
Roswell: Season 1
(DVD)
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