Alien: Isolation (The Alien™ Series)
-
-
2.7 • 3 Ratings
-
-
- £14.99
Publisher Description
The action-packed official adaptation of Alien: Isolation and a revealing look into the lives of Ellen Ripley and her daughter, Amanda Ripley.
The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats—including an entire Xenomorph hive. Over the course of the novel, Amanda’s history is revealed beginning with her childhood. Her father Alex’s battle with alcoholism caused her mother, Ellen Ripley, to sue for divorce. Ellen was forced to take off-world assignments, ultimately leading to her assignment aboard the Nostromo. Left behind, Amanda became determined to find out what happened to her mother, learning more and more about Ellen and the events that led up to her disappearance. Along the way, Amanda develops a fast friendship with Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks (from the Alien: Defiance Dark Horse series).
Customer Reviews
Don’t waste your money
This book reads like a sterile and a vague shopping list of a two-dimensional character strolling through a two-dimensional, clichéd world. A tick-box exercise lacking any depth or creative skill.
Considering the book is based on a “survival horror” game, the thorough lack of descriptive or imaginative prose completely sanitises any potential threat and extinguishes any chance of horror.
I read the book feeling as bored as the main character is constantly and strangely portrayed.
This is the very worst of the extended Alien universe books I have read, which is quite an accomplishment as there were a couple of other terrible contenders.