The Frequency of Aliens Paperback – 14 Dec. 2017

I love this series. Unbelievable but believable , sympathetic characters and great storyline. Love Annie Collins.

A brilliant sequel to The Spaceship Next Door! Need more please!

I really enjoyed this and delightfully, it was just as funny, improbable and lively as 'The Spaceship Next Door'. Slick, clever writing and well defined characters made it a pleasure to read. Sure, Annie and Ed are just too good to be true and maybe the whole ghost and zombie thing is a bit overdone but who cares - it's great fun.

I found this one difficult to put down once I got used to the narrative. The story is pacey and due to the humour, feels quite different from, say, Fade Out, which I have also recently read and reviewed. This could so easily have been a grim tale of humanity facing a possible apocalyptic threat and while events are stacking up and there is a definite sense of unease, at no stage did the tone alter. I found it quite refreshing.However, the catch with using any form of omniscient viewpoint – where the narrator is driving the story forward instead of the main characters – is the narrative can tip into being a mouthpiece for the author. So as I read on, I became aware that Doucette isn’t a fan of the military mindset, while feeling protectively admiring of isolated, rural settlements like Sorrow Falls.Is this a major problem? It certainly wasn’t for hundreds of years, or for the likes of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. However the current fashion is for our protagonists to tell the story from their viewpoints within the story, on the grounds that no one has an overarching, ultimate view of what is happening – and that is exactly what is going on throughout this book. If Doucette wasn’t so deft with his humour, I think I would have had more of a problem with the viewpoint but because his wry irreverence permeates the story, he manages to pull this one off.Other than that, the writing is slick and effective, while he keeps the pace rolling forward. All the main characters were reasonably appealing, although I did find the bloodthirsty survivalists a little unnerving and wondered if Doucette is playing too much with stereotypes in his characterisations. However, the denouement and ending was well handled and I enjoyed reading this sufficiently that I will be looking out for the first book in the series, The Space Ship Next Door.8/10

I read the first book in this series the day before reading this, so the details were quite fresh. The characters were still "alive" in my mind, and this may have lessened my enjoyment of the novel.As with the first, it was a new take on alien incursion. I won't give details, but it seemed that the discovery and the resolution was too easy.I felt that, in a broad sense, the characters played predictable roles - typecast? - to the point that secondary characters felt like parodies of themselves. I also felt that Annie Collins, the mature teen, had turned into Annie Collins, the immature and petulant adult.However, I gave the book four stars because I like the author's writing style and humour, and as a sequel, it necessarily answered some questions remaining from the first book.

If you are reading this review trying to decide if you want to buy this book then you must not have read the first one. For me it was a no brainer after reading the first book. It was almost as good as the first, I really enjoyed it.

It basically had a comfortable and believable feeling. It feels "real" so it makes for a good read, and you don't feel in a rush to find the ending.

This was almost up to the standard of the first book, but I missed Annie's sass and wit in this one.

Good book but not as good as first.

I wish Gene Doucette’s writing was not so clever, witty, and repartee-ish, because then I would not be frustrated longing for more. I wish that characters like Annie, Violet, Cora, Duke, Ed, Oona, etc., were not so memorable because now they are stuck in my brain taking up valuable bandwidth and wasting space that could otherwise be used for more meaningful memories like the instructions on how to use my dishwasher. I wish I had not finished reading this book, because now I have to wait for the next one in the series to be thought up and fleshed out, much less written and published, and who knows how long that’s going to take. (Come on, there has to be a next one; .who only writes 2 books for a series?) I wish that I didn’t have this jones for Gene’s writing, because now, until the next book comes out (yes, I’m repeating myself) I’ll have to settle for more mediocre fare, like War and Peace…or the Bible…or I, Robot. So, Gene, I wish you would concentrate on writing the next Sorrow Falls book. If you’ve already started on it, then I wish you a speedy conclusion. (Spoiler Alert: This book finally reconciles the theory of...wait, I'd better not tell you that because then you'd know that...oops, you shouldn't know that yet either. Shoot, never mind, just enjoy!)

At the conclusion of Sorrow Falls,part one,Annie Collins,16 year old sweetheart extraordinaire,had just saved humanity from one spaceship and a zombie horde. World famous,she slipped out of the limelight to the best of her ability and headed for college. An agreement with powers that be nervous over the fact of a hormonal teenage girl controlling a spaceship capable of taking out any or all foes the planet could put against her had her agreeing to a secret service detail to protect such a hot package. So we begin Sorrow Falls,part two,The Frequency of Aliens.Annie decides to head to college in the backwoods of Massachusetts where she hopes she might be treated as a normal person. As a not very normal semester draws to a close things begin heating up. More and more people are getting upset with our innocent heroine with seeming little reason. Things keep getting worse until the world ignites in a maelstrom of .... Sorry,any further and plot spoilers loom. Suffice it say that Gene Doucette has things under control even if Annie doesn't. His writing skills which were solid in book one have added polish in the two years since The Spaceship Next Door came out. The regulars that survived the first book are back and one who didn't as well. Add in a few newbies and we have a fine crew of interesting,idiosyncric characters that Gene draws with compassion and a sense of humor that stays just the serious side of over the top. My favorite of the author's releases to date.

Love this book...MY favorite characters are back with some new characters added in. Story is good, solid and entertaining. It's been 3 years since "Spaceship" and Annie is grown up but still Annie, others have moved on and we find out what happened to them. "Spaceship" is the first book I read by this author but have since read all of them and thoroughly enjoyed them all.Now I want the audible of "Frequency" and of course, another book with Annie.Thanks Gene it was worth the wait.

Not quite frequently enoughGene Doucette returns us, well not quite to Sorrow Falls (initially), but to the lives of Annie, Ed, Violet and the Spaceship Next Door.So what happens to the teenage girl who saved the world three years after the most significant incident in history? Well college of course. Trying to balance tests, boys, friends and parties at college is hard enough for anyone, let alone when you have secret service agents following you everywhere, with the question being are they there to protect her from the world, or the world from her?Zombies were bad enough for one night, but now people are seeing vampires, werewolves, ghosts, aliens and anything else they can imagine, and blaming it all on Annie.As Ed tries to piece together pieces of a puzzle across the world, it looks like it may be time to get the survivors of the incident back to where it all started.While not my favorite of his books (that is either Fixer or Unfiction) it is enjoyable following these characters once again as they piece together just exactly what is happening and how to deal with it. Watching a simple ordinary small town girl who becomes extraordinary overnight as she tries to be normal is enjoyable enough, and though it starts a little slow building the characters, it ends with a bang that honestly left me wanting more.Doucette mentioned in his blog that this was intended as a sequel, not a series, but Amazon would not let him list it as such (thus becoming Sorrow Falls Book 2). However the ending, while not quit open ended (at least no more than the first book) did leave me wondering what is going to come next for Annie, Ed and Violet (and the rest of the scooby gang :-) ) And while he hasn't announced any plans for a third book (in the trilogy perhaps), all it takes is an idea . .

I'll probably come back and add more to this review, just wanted to jot down a few thoughts after just having finished the novel.I accidentally touched the screen on my Kindle during a particularly exciting part of the story and saw I was 92% of the way through. I let out an audible sound of disappointment. That was the feeling of my time spent reading this book. I truly didn't want it to end!

My one tip, unless you read book one like immediately before this, its worth re reading. I didn't and it took a bit to remember a lot of what happened. Especially because Annie is specifically not talking about it, even in her head.I am curious if there will be more (given that I didn't expect this book at all and now there is a series name, I'm expecting that Annie and Edgar jinxed themselves at the end).

I won't lie, I read all of Gene's books. And there is a good reason for that. They are great books.The Frequency of Aliens is a book that you can't put down, and I don't say that lightly. As of writing this review, I have 4 books all between 40-70% progress on my Kindle because they can't keep my attention for very long. One of those books is the 11th book in the series, so it's a series I'm invested into finishing because I've enjoyed it so far. To be blunt, this book made my wife mad because I got so engrossed into it, she smacked me with the book she was reading so I would have a conversation with her. So yeah, I enjoyed it.I won't spoil too much about the book here, but if you have bad taste in music (apparently I do, TECHNO!!!) then Gene will rain on our parade by calling all of us out on it using it as a major plot device in this book. But at the same time, it was very clever plot device in how it was revealed as one. Oh and barrel rolls are always a great way to impress someone you like.So in conclusion. Read it. Read the first one too if you haven't already. Worth your time.Cheers.

I have read most of this authors books. His sardonic humor style takes the sting out of his comments even when he is critical of one's deep held convictions. My favorites are the Sorrow Falls stories. I would give a rating of 5 except for the failure to keep Sam Corning as Sam Corning. In the Latvian trip part of the book, Corning becomes Cornell. I only have the Kindle book so I don't know if this is a transcription error or if Gene was temporarily taken over by the " multitude" (read the book) and forgot his character's name. 😄😄 Follow up : I like to read favorites more than once. After posting the comments above I decided to read both Sorrow Falls books again and now the Kindle book has corrected the error and Sam Corning does not change into Cornell. Yea!

This sequel to The Spaceship Next Door proves that sometimes you can go home again. Annie is attending a small college in Massachusetts. She is not quite living the normal college experience as she is constantly surrounded by a coterie of Secret Service agents and above her in synchronous orbit is the spaceship she controls.This sequel does not dissapoint as it features all the great characters that populated the first book (including one who died in the first book) and in addition adds some new ones. As one might expect all hell breaks loose and Annie is forced to return to her hometown of Sorrow Falls.The author pulls off another great tale and another satisfying ending.

The story is about a teenage girl going to college with all the baggage obtained in the previous two books. If you haven't read them, this book will be a struggle although the author tries to make it a stand alone. We have a new wave of aliens that want to take over the ship, so they send out frequencies (name of the book) that disrupt rational thought. People see zombies vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. They blame Annie for these apparitions which are scaring them, and they believe killing Annie is the solution. Using Shippy, her adult friends and friendly alien, Annie solves the current problems of the world, and rids it of the evil aliens. Entertaining and uniquely imaginative sci-fi.