Alien Taste starts out as a good murder mystery novel and explodes into a science fiction adventure complete with shape shifting alien invaders. As with all of Wen Spencers books you will really empathize with and understand the characters. The world they are in feels very real and you will have a hard time putting the book down because it will keep you engaged to the very end trying to see what happens next. I know I should write what I didn't like about the book at this point but really the author didn't do anything I didn't like with this story.
Ukiah Oregon, and Max Bennett, are a private detective team who specialize in finding missing people. In fact when it comes to weird missing persons cases they are the best. Ukiah has almost magical tracking abilities, and Max handles everything else. For their latest case they are trying to find a missing co-ed with three hacked apart roommates. Ukiah knows that something is off about this case almost immediately because he really does have superhuman tracking abilites, and he can tell that the blood from the girl he is trying to find isn't completely human. When he does find her she is insane, Armed with a sword, and being taken over from the inside out by something that is hauntingly familiar to Ukiah. The fact that Ukiah doesn't remember his early childhood or how he came to be in a humane wolf trap in Ukiah Oregon(he was named after the town) has never been a problem for him until now. By taking this case the past he can't remember is about to catch up to him, and he will discover that his tracking abilities and sense for DNA are only the tip of the iceberg. Ukiah discovers that like the thing that was changing the girl he found he isn't completely human and he is not alone. His fathers people have been battling for the future of our world for a long time and the fight just came to him. The question is can he learn enough about himself to be anything but a pawn in the long war between the descendants of his father Prime and the hive mind known as Hex.
This book should appeal to mystery fans, and science fiction fans alike. I really think that anyone who gives it half a chance will love it. Wen Spencer has a gift for writing compelling stories that you just can't put down, and when they are over you just want more.
This book can be found at www.amazon.com as an e-book.
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