Shades

by Mel Odom

Book Overview

Ghost Story Now that their best chance for returning to the home planet has left without them, the "Czechoslovakian" residents of Roswell (code for aliens) must adjust to a more permanent existence on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743418379
• ISBN13: 9780743418379
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 6.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Pretty good!

Interesting tale, set during an earlier season of the series! Worth a read for Roswell fans! Interesting enough on it's own

A Riveting Roswell Tale

This is the best Roswell book I've read to date. The characters are true to the series, and the plot is fast-paced and well constructed. Bravo to Mr. Odom. I hope he contributes more to this series.

Masquerade de la Mort

The best of the Roswell books to date, with a plot worthy of H. P. Lovecraft or Nigel Kneale.Earth-dwelling aliens Max and Isabel Evans and Michael Guerin find themselves at the center of an odd phenomenon manifesting around Roswell: the return of the dead. All over town, and in the nearby Indian reservation, people are seeing ghosts - with considerable attitude. Far from harmless apparitions, these shades bite.Max's Indian friend River Dog says it all has something to do with an ancient prophecy. Max is more skeptical. While any number of people are being assaulted by the dangerous apparitions, only he, Isabel and Michael can see them all, in whatever guise they take. And that means their unearthliness is genuinely "unearthly," in the truest sense of the word - the ghosts haunting Roswell are something literally not from planet Earth. In fact, they're not even really ghosts. They're something a great deal worse...Mel Odom is a sure hand at writing series-based novels with pre-established characters and settings (he writes for the Buffy and Sabrina the Teenage Witch franchises, as well), and it shows here. He realizes the Roswell characters, perfectly. The dialogue is crisp, the action brisk. There's more meat than usual to the story, the plot filled with suspense and clever twists and turns. This isn't just a good Roswell novel, it's plain good science fiction.Good stuff.

okay now this book had some flavor

the story starts out with michael out in the dessert doing workfor a company out in the desert with several other guys. when theguys get bored at night they decide to tell ghost stories. the problem is that one of the guys's dead father comes back to haunt him and only michael and the guy can see the ghost. as it turns out, ghosts are appearing all over roswell and the indian reservation saying that the town's residents must get rid of thevisitors,(in other words the aliens) or there will be a terribleprice to pay. also they come to the frinds of the aliens and threaten them that if they don't dissasociate with the visitorsthey will all meet a terrible end. this was a great book and adefinite must for roswell fans.