Review: Alien Separation by Gini Koch

18 December of 2015 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Chess on a multidimensional level was never such fun read

Alien Separation By Gini Koch

Science Fiction

Released May 5, 2015

DAW

Series: Kitty Katt, Book 11

Reviewed by Jean

Alien Separation is the eleventh novel in Gini Koch’s hilarious and rollicking Alien series.

Life’s Never easy…

The Mastermind has finally been identified, but before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take him down, they, their daughter Jamie, Charles Reynolds, Paul Gower, Christopher White, and several others are zapped out of their solar system and into another.

Landing in scattered groups on various areas of Beta Eight in the Alpha Centauri system means getting the team back together will be a major issue. But it’s only one of the challenges they’ll face. Kitty and Company have to forge alliances with the wide variety of sentient natives of the planet while plotting to create a civil war and overthrow the king — who just may be a clone of one of their bitterest enemies, Ronaldo Al Dejahl.

Of course, to do this, they have to overcome an assortment of dangerous obstacles, protect a group of refugees, take mind reading lessons, and seek out unexpected new allies as they journey to the Centerpoint of the World.

And once they reach the All Seeing Mountain, new issues and surprises wait. Because there’s more than a small war going on — they’re in the midst of the Alpha Centauri Civil War!

Chess on a multidimensional level was never such fun read

Megalomaniac girl is back! I’ve had this one sitting on the table next to my chair since it hit the bookstores back in May. You might wonder why the heck it was sitting so close to me and still hadn’t been read. Grrrr, it’s one of those things called commitments. I made them and I was darn sure going to try and meet them. Didn’t mean I wasn’t grinding my teeth every time I looked at it and chomping at the bit to sink my teeth into it. And now, the latest in the series, Alien in Chief has just released. I just couldn’t stand it anymore so pardon me while I swept aside all my ARCs and gave myself permissions to read one of my favorite series. Call it my early Christmas present to myself. Three hundred pages in I had to MAKE myself get some sleep, but I can tell you I really didn’t want to. This series has me sitting on the edge of my seat, biting my lips and laughing out loud on a regular basis.

From the beginning with Touched by an Alien, Gini Koch has drawn me into Kitty Katt’s world and totally enraptured me. Each book in the series is packed full of surprises and a total outside the box realism that keeps me glued to my seat until the last page. Alien Separation is no exception. Where else do you get aliens, comic book heroism, super hot flyboys and clues from super-sentient beings delivered via iPod tunes? Oh, and did I mention the laugh a minute irreverence? Best yet there is that touch of romance, passion, and love I seem to find an absolute necessity in my reading.

In Alien Separation, Kitty Katt-Martini has made it back from the parallel universe she was transported to in Universal Alien. She knows hands down just who the Mastermind is and it’s time to kick some proverbial butt… well, that is until she and a select few of her closest friends and family find themselves slung across the galaxy. Of course, there are plans within plans and it’s up to a very capable Kitty to discover just what’s going on and come to the rescue… not only of her family and friends but the whole Alpha Centauri solar system. Something made a whole lot easier with the assistance of her trusty purse and all the marvels it dishes out in the nick of time. None of this is to discount the help of her companions, their trusty pets or the new alliances she’s made. Oh, I suppose it doesn’t hurt to be a foretold savior and god.

You know I keep checking my purse, but darn it there are no poofies there to come to the rescue and I know for sure that a machine gun won’t fit into it. But darn it would be nice. Then again I’m not trying to save the world or the universe for that matter. What I will find though is a reading device loaded with books that help me take a vacation from reality. I have to admit that Ms. Koch’s books provide some of the best vacations I’ve taken. Things are always dire in Kitty Katt’s world, but there are rewards aplenty. Having the best of friends, a darling daughter and the princely love of the hottest alien out there sure add up on the win side not to mention the devotion of all her alien pets. But I have to admit I hope the challenges keep coming because I’m not sure I want this ride to ever end.

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O Factor: Spicy

Goodreads

Kitty Katt Series:

Touched by an Alien, Book 1
Alien Tango, Book 2
Alien in the Family, Book 3
Alien Proliferation, Book 4
Alien Diplomacy, Book 5
Alien vs. Alien, Book 6
Alien in the House, Book 7
Alien Research, Book 8
Alien Collective, Book 9
Universal Alien, Book 10
Alien Separation, Book 11
Alien in Chief, Book 12