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The Night They Came: A Science-fiction Thriller....

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I love fantasy and science fiction, always have, always will. When I read the product information on this book, I thought, what the heck, how bad can it be. Well, did I ever find out! And I've seen and read some really bad ones over the years. To be fair, I didn't finish the book. I didn't get past the first page. You know those bad Saturday movies on the Scifi channel every week - well this one would fit right in. It's so bad, I don't think MST3000 could have fixed it - but it would have been right up their alley. This kind of book gives the whole field a bad name. My only hope is the aliens won and we won't have any more of them.

Bad grammer, bad characters, stupid storyline. Don't waste your time reading it-there are so many great sci fi books out there.

This is by far the worst sci-fi book I ever read. Not only was the plot lame, but it appears no one bothered to edit it for grammar, sentence structure, or punctuation. I have never seen so many semi-colons and hyphens used improperly in my life. The aliens weren't even original, and it read like a bad 50's B-Sci-Fi movie, and that is even giving it too much credit. I bought the book based on an ad in Sci-Fi Magazine (who should be ashamed of itself for hawking this book on an unsuspecting public) and on the reviews I read on Barnes and Noble's website. Reviews which I would normally suspect were written by the author himself, except for the fact that the reviews read better than the actual story.

If you're the kind of person who expects a book to meet minimal standards of quality, give this one a pass. While the occasional extra or missing comma is to be expected, the copy editing of this book is abysmal.

Here's a sampling: misspelled words, mixing of person in a sentence, improper use of quotes within the speech of a character, incorrect plurals, over use of capitalization, name dropping (OK, we get it already that you like Cabernet Sauvignon!), doubled-up qualifiers (even if people really do talk this way), incorrect use of apostrophes (turning plurals into possessives), improper use of italics in the speech of a character, general infatuation with commas (LOTS and LOTS of commas) - and also with whatever it is you call three or four periods followed by one or two exclamation marks - and the ending of sentences with an ellipses but no terminating period (I just now spotted this one).

Not to mention, the story totally didn't grab me. At around page 47 I couldn't take any more of the distraction, wrote this review and threw the book away.

Authors, when you write your book, /please/ have it edited by a professional. They won't get any credit, but you won't get any blame.

I was captivated from the beginning. What a great book. It's nice to find a story that can take me away and keep me hooked. Definitely recommended.

I can't believe that anyone seriously believes this book was written by an adult. It reads like the transcript of a breathless 10 year old under interrogation. This has to be a joke, it's that bad.

The author uses the same poorly written phrases over and over (eg, as then). And has the odd habit of stating measurements of people and objects in parenthesis. So many words misspelled or given unneccesary hyphens.

I actually read it all the way to the end because I became intrigued by its awfullness. It got worse with every page.

The story can be summed up thusly: aliens come to Earth, bad scientists stick people with needles and make human/alien hybrids. The end.

Note to the author: please, for the love of all that is holy, don't write anything else. And I want my money back.

I want to start out my review by saying this- WOW! From start to finish, The Night They Came is an incredible, action packed thrill ride of a book! Once I started reading it from the first chapter to the last, I could not stop, I had to keep reading to see what was going to happen next! When I got to the end of the book, I was blown away. You will NOT see the ending coming! I highly recommend this book to everyone, it is truly a science fiction masterpiece.

A very exciting Sci-Fi adventure of alien invasion and experimentation that never slows down from beginning to end. It's full of great characters who are thrown together unexpectedly and have to move from one desperate situation to another without a moments rest. Difficult to put down because the action is non stop leading to a thrilling and unexpected conclusion. A thought provoking look at what could happen, or may have already happened without our knowledge. This story would make a great movie.

Sci-fi adventure fans will like the fast pace of this book, its nightmarish events and realistic dialog. There's plenty of conflict and suspense. Gamboa makes the reader see the action and feel a part of it. Strong language and typos detract from overall impact.

Finally an author who sees what really can and does ,occur in and around the mountains,overlooking L.A. & beyond(see he made me a believer)Loved the "Hy-brids" ,I know I've seen them!!!Bravo David: Give us more!!!