Title: Little to recommend it
Product review: Trash literature for young adults, most appropriate for middle school kids. While this book may appeal to "reluctant readers" because of its fast-paced action, it has little to recommend it. The two main characters are fairly uninteresting. There are very clear-cut good guys and bad guys, with no shadings of gray. That will make it appealing to some young readers, but the characters seem flat. Lots of sexual innuendo and undertones...the young virginal girl is in danger of being molested by the sicko leader of the aliens. Philbrook has written some other books with good character development and interesting themes, but this book doesn't measure up.
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