

The part, in which author is supposed to describe characters to us is a failure. The whole narrative structure here is so forced that it feels like a mess. As you can easily guess, Diane Duane didn’t even try to create a proper novel and decided that for people, who care about video games it’ll be enough to just mention some terms from there.Īnd that’s the worst thing about this novel - there’s no plot. Official X-COM: UFO Defense (also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe) video game novelization is your typical example of poor novel that relies only on the popularity of the original game, without being able to provide anything about the reading itself. The game-based novel from “will write for food” author.
