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A review by depizan
Alien Taste by Wen Spencer
3.0
This is a hard book to categorize. It would be urban fantasy, except it's actually urban sci-fi, which isn't a category I've actually heard of. (Not to say there aren't others, just not that I've encountered.) But it's also a murder mystery. Let's just go with: it's complicated.
It's also a hard book to review. I liked the main characters, and it's got an interesting 5 minutes into the future setting. But the story ran just a little grim for my tastes, even though it did manage a happy ending, and, for the most part things worked out well for the good guys. And, unusual for things that run to the grim, the main characters were caring and sometimes succeeded because they cared about other people. So, I guess it's more that some grim things happened than that the story was grim. If that makes any sense.
It's also a hard book to review. I liked the main characters, and it's got an interesting 5 minutes into the future setting. But the story ran just a little grim for my tastes, even though it did manage a happy ending, and, for the most part things worked out well for the good guys. And, unusual for things that run to the grim, the main characters were caring and sometimes succeeded because they cared about other people. So, I guess it's more that some grim things happened than that the story was grim. If that makes any sense.