Shalvey, Declan
AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:
3 out of 5
(1 book)
Alien: Descendant
(Art by Danny Earls, Andrea Broccardo and Declan Shalvey)
Book 2, set ten years after the events of 'Thaw'. Jun Yutani launches a mission to LV-695 to salvage the Weyand-Yutani vessel Boreas from beneath the planet's icy crust. However, the mission awakens two different strains of xenomorph, one bred from humans and one bred from the planet's own vicious and deadly native creatures. As the salvage crew fight to survive, one of their number, 'Cole', has a mission of her own.
In all honesty, I haven't read 'Thaw' but this book gives you enough background information to fill in the gaps where necessary. So what we get then is a fairly standard story of human hubris in the face of the overwhelming threat posed by the Aliens. Nothing new there. However, the fact that the two different strains of xenomorph do not get along was a nice touch that reveals something we've not really seen in the Aliens before.
I did also like the revelations about the backstory of the android Dayton, which once again proves that the synthetics in this franchise are every bit as complex as the human characters (incidentally, RIP Bishop, we love you).
3 out of 5
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