Couldn't put it down.
This book was excellent. I found it hard to put it down, I like the new inventions that tackle the aliens more efficiently. The first half of the book is perhaps just down to the military and a business man but it creates interesting thought and then finishes well. Get this book if you enjoyed the other three.
Fine, Well done book
I found this book to be very well written. Since i've read all but three of the aliens/aliens vs. predator books ( working on nightmare asylum now, going to get labyrinth right away) I liked the fact that you got to feel the characters and get to know and begin to like them before they went and started the blood lust. In a previous review by another reader (i will not say his name) he claimed it was boring and would not complete it, i personally found that i enjoyed the book because it was not all blood, death, and carnage.
First off, i did like the way it was structured. It gave the plot and setting away in the beginning, so you weren't confused.
Mostly, i liked the characters. They were at times likeable, and seemed to be quite realistic.
The combat was great aswell, but considering there was only about fifty pages of fighting, i really wont say much. Dont want to give anything away!
All in all, it was a very fine read, take my advice, and check it out.
By the way, ALiens earth hive, and nightmare asylum are pretty good, you should consider them also, but forget about female war, it sucks.
Knowledgable Reader
This is in responce to the "horrible book" review. All of the Aliens novels writen in association with Dark Horse Publishing (Dark Horse Comics) are adaptations of comic book miniseries previously published by DHC. If you don't like the comics, then don't by the books. They follow the comics exactly with only room to elaborate on thoughts and "gaps" in the series. I for one can vouch that Aliens: Genocide was a great comic miniseries and find it hard to believe that this novel is horrible. Sure it may have more "military stuff" in it than the first three novels (which were also adapted from the Aliens miniseries; Aliens (V0l. 1), Aliens (Vol.2), and Aliens: Earth War), but that is because Aliens: Genocide is the story of the military using the aliens saliva to creat a "super-steroid" for their marines. This is why the novel consentrates on the military.
BEST aliens book!!!
I have read ALL the aliens vs. predator books and all of the aliens books except rogue and music of the spears, and this one is ABSOLUTELY the best of them all! Genocide has the best action, coolest eqipment, as some other reviewers said the best and most entertaining writing, and DOESN'T have an overused plot!(more than i can say for any of the other books, even my second favorite, labrynth). Most of the other books could only be enjoyed by aliens fans, but this one is actually a GREAT book which could be enjoyed by all!(so could labrynth by all horror fans, but as i said b4, it's an overused plot). if you are reading the aliens and/or predator books as i am, this is the MOST important one to read cuz it's the best.... read it
I loved the book a lot!
This book kept my attention the whole way through. In the book there are two main characters throughout the whole book. They are Daniel Grant and Colonel Alex Kozlowski. The Daniel fella is a ladies man to put it lightly. Then on the other side of the spectrum you have Alex who is kind of a manly lady. She doesnt wear any type of makeup whatsoever and doesnt care what other people think of her. In the beginning of the story it talks of how Daniel puts on a show of his money even though he is running on empty in the cash world. He used to be rich but then lost almost all of it to people who had problems with the main drug that Daniel's company was selling. The problems with the drug he is selling is that it needs alien jelly to make the product but they are right next to running out of jelly so he plans an expedition to the alien Hiveworld to either kill or capture the queen so they can collect all the royla jelly they can. Daniel Grant had not planned on going but when a man called Morton Fisk tries to kill Grant, Grant runs to the safest place he can think of. The spaceship Razzia which is goig to the alien Hiveworld. He gets onboard and they are on their way to the Hiveworld. Thats all I can say without blowing the ending. All I can say is that this book is way worth the reading. Just Read It!
