Aliens: Vasquez

A Novel

By: V. Castro

Narrated by: Lauren Rodriguez

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behind

Even before the doomed mission to Hadley’s Hope on LV-426, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military tradition, she looked up to the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earth—first into a street gang, then prison. The Colonial Marines proved to be Vasquez’s way out—a way that forced her to give up her twin children. Raised by Jenette’s sister, those children, Leticia and Ramon, had to discover their own ways to survive. Leticia by following her mother’s path into the military, Ramon into the corporate hierarchy of Weyland-Yutani. Their paths would converge on an unnamed planet which some see as a potential utopia, while others would use it for highly secretive research. Regardless of whatever humans might have planned for it, however, Xenomorphs will turn it into a living hell.

©2022 Violet Castro (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Not worth the hype

Story is jumping back and forth. Can’t focus on any one point. A lot of the characters have too much self pity to really relate to. Don’t have the aliens in the same plot until almost halfway through.

The narrator was boring. Little variation between character voices. Even human characters feel robotic.

Awful, Just awful.

this honestly did not seem like an Aliens novel at all. it recaps what happened in the movie and gives you somewhat of a introduction to vasquez's life and then after she dies in the alien movie The story goes completely flat. you start to not care about the character and when certain character arcs are explained it makes your eyes roll. I'm a bit disappointed because alien novels don't come out a lot and I felt like this release could have been better. I don't think this should be considered canon. if you're going to tie in a main character's children look at alien isolation for a good example.

Great book, but uninspired narration.

I loved the story of this book, but it was marred by the monotonous and boring narration. It had deserved much better!

Meh

The story was marginal at best. They tried to keep a lot of parts canon but missed many basic details. The performance read sounded like AI tried to do it. Very monotone with no inflection or variable tone movement. Painful read to listen through.

at lot of nothing.

There really isnt much going on. the strong women of the family proves their worth, but of course they are at the bottom of society, so nothing is fair. on a side note, why is all music mention already old to Day. Time goes on, so why do they all listen to Bruce Springsteen and pink Floyd?

Weakened conclusion to a bad-ass character. Lacks commitment, closure, and falls short of the Aliens legacy.

Weakened conclusion to a bad-ass character. Lacks commitment, closure, and falls short of the Aliens legacy. Not enough time spent on Xenomorph interaction and I was seriously hoping for more intense and complex confrontations and moments. This book could have been so much more if it had been allowed to simmer better.

has potential but just not quite there yet.

so this has an ok story to it, granted it's a slow burn but the story has great potential. The one real issue I had with this audio book(⁠●⁠_⁠_⁠●⁠) was the slow reading and lake of emotion from the reader. I'll definitely be picking up a hard copy to read it myself again.

So so

It was ok. The voice was a little off putting and slow which took me a while to get into. I like the idea of the offspring of the badass Vasquez coming into their own but man the stories are so predictable and unoriginal. Every book and story is of a group of people that are lied into going on a mission only to discover the real reason they're brought there. Aliens escape, there's a fight, someone gets away. The same thing over and over. Gotta find another direction to go.

Could have been better worth a listen if you a fan

For me overall this was disappointing, when I found out there was a book from the Aliens franchise about Vasquez I was excited. Vasquez was one of the characters I wish would have survived from Aliens, she was bad ass. However, she is barely in the book, most of the story (in my opinion) is irrelevant and unnecessary. The voice acting was bad and it was really hard to get through the whole story. If you are a big Aliens fan its worth a listen but the best part is just about the very end of the book. And unfortunately its not that great.

Boring.

I’ve read every Alien novel that has any affiliation with the original series. This was by far the worst one yet. It started out decent with a nice origins story but continued on with no action. It was just pure boring. The end was anti-climactic and predictable. The reader of the story was solid,