Alien vs. Alien

So in this book we get more shenanigans in DC and a hell of a lot more aliens if you didn't catch it in the title. I still don't think that the switch in position for Kitty was the best decision. I think she would have still done better sticking to more field work. And keeping her out of loop was so obviously a mistake for this book that I'm still not sure why it was done. It literally had no purpose and Kitty pretty much figured everything out anyway. Obvs!

Anyway, there are new alien visitors in this book as well as a visit from some past megalomaniacs. I think the series has officially reached the point where there are too many characters and not enough attention is being paid to the AWESOME ones. I mean, there was barely any Reader in this book. That's just not right. But on a serious note, I'm able to keep most of the characters straight mostly because I'm reading the books relatively close together. If I were to wait a year to read the next one I can guarantee I would forget a majority of the characters that were in this book. I get that Kitty is the Head of Recruitment but there were just too many new miscellaneous characters in this one. The only characters that were in the majority of this book from the ‘original' cast was Mr. Richard White (adorable gentleman), Naomi and Abigail, and the Poofs (lol). Everyone else didn't have as much “screen time.”

I don't know. This may just be me missing more action and crime-solving. The only thing that made me give this book 3 instead of 2 stars were the last few chapters where we finally got some action. The author is bomb at writing the action scenes because you can vividly picture it in your head like a movie. Also, the one thing that really brought this book down the most for me was all the explanatory fodder. For example, there were many chapters that were mostly just explanations of the many detailed corruptions going on with the multiple bad guys in D.C. Then we get more fodder about the bad guys in outer space. There's just so much being explained, and not just about the bad guys. Nothing is really happening in the book except Kitty trying to get all the pieces together by “talking out loud.”

I have the next book in the series already but like I did with the last one, I going to read a few books before I get back into this series. I approached this book months after having bought it because I had to remind myself of all the parts that I liked in the previous books. I will be approaching the next book in the same way. Overall, this is a good comfort read for me but because the books tend to run a bit long, I wish they had a bit more.