A review by octavia_cade
Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo by Rory Lucey

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

3.5

I love the Alien films, so when I saw this at the library I had to pick it up. It's a retelling of the first film from the point of view of Jonesy the cat. This shift in perspective has leached all the horror out of the story and replaced it with humour, because Jonesy - like all cats - is a self-centred little despot. He's often completely oblivious to the deaths going on around him: Ripley's final fight with the Alien goes unnoticed as Jonesy washes his arse, for instance, and he's more interested in demanding food and treating alien larvae as a chew toy and hacking up fur balls into acid holes than anything else.

It's very funny. The scene where Ripley's desperately trying to stuff him into a cat box so they can escape while Jonesy refuses to let himself be stuffed had me laughing, although to be fair I was laughing at nearly every page.