Customer Reviews

Quarantine

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when a new chemial company comes to town, they offer a scholarship and a summer job to one lucky applicant. liz parker
wins. but from the beginning she senses that things are not quite
right here. the scientist she is assigned to work with is down right rude and nasty to her. little does she know that they are covering up a bigger plot that will cause a townwide disease that causes the whole town to be quarantined.

as a subplot a little girl starts following maria around town. upon further investigation she finds out that the girl is her half sister. this brings up a bunch of complicated issues that maria thought long buried with her father who left her so many years ago.

the story has a good plot but i think the writer missed the best
parts of the michael and maria relationship. the writer has them
getting along a little too well. when did that ever happen on the show? the plot does come to a peak about 12 pages from the end and hurries with a solution. i did not like that part too much. it reminded me of the last4 episodes of roswell when they hurried up and tied up loose ends instead of drawing them out into a better story.

overall it is a good book and i think roswell fans will enjoy it.

i am making a plea to the author/authors/publishers of this book to re-release or issue a reprint of this CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT book as like i many people only need this book to complete their roswell book collection and because it's out of print the only way to get/buy it is to pay stupidly high prices for it which no sane person can afford!!!
so i'm asking you to issue a reprint of this book, and i can assure you there are plenty of us that would buy this book if you did, which would bring in high revenues for you!!!
SO HEAR MY PLEAS AND REPUBLISH THIS BOOK

I liked this book overall, sure the scientific facts weren't exact and the whole Sadie and Maria story line was way too short. This story wasan't about the actual scientific facts or Maria, but just where does Liz fit into Max's life and is the relationship worth saving, does Max still love her and just how deep that love goes. I liked the fact that Liz decided to put herself first for a change even if for a little while. And I felt that Max's actions in this book mimic the second and third seasons of the tv series where Max is selfish, self-absorbed, unreasonable but is also loving,caring and compassionate. In this book Liz tells Max about future Max, but in a later book Liz tells Max about it again..Obviously the author of the later book never took this book into account....But it's worth the read.

I've read several of the books in this series, and was a real fan of the show, but I feel it's only fair to give warning about this one. It was so out of touch with the show and its viewers, it offended. The only way it *was* in keeping with the show, was that the 'science' was laughable--below the level of a grade-school child. The story dealt with curbing an epidemic, yet the author couldn't be bothered to check out basic facts about, say, DNA. And Maria is chided because a total stranger shows up with a claim on her, pushes his way into her home (in the absence of her mother) and stays, and she doesn't bow and show him hospitality. This was so appalling, I actually tossed it in the trash after I read it, instead of donating it to the library. Didn't want the infection to spread.