Review: Sickos, Psychos and Aliens Oh My!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2012
Things in the world are really heating up.  The second alien plague has hit the Earth and decimated both "Normals" and Edens alike.  Scientists in the Free Nations are struggling to find an antidote and extrapolate that to deal with plague number 3 nicknamed the "Reaper Plague" before it hits.  The world has been warned that the Meme are coming by Raphaela (the blended Meme and Human)and that the world has less than a year to get ready to defend whoever is left after the plagues have hit.  Countries have fallen apart under the weight of the plagues becoming stretches of animal-like former humans hit with the double degeneration of the combination of plagues one and two(twosies) and fortified towns full of people that are still okay or only slightly devolved with plague one(onesies).  Hu-rah Repeth!  You get to see this soldier in action as she tries to help the US secure it citizens from the infected and make everyone safe again.As if plagues were not enough, the government has been playing with nanobots and come up with a formula to make super soldiers that are almost as good as Edens without the moral "problems", except that it makes some people extremely psychotic - even more than the Eden plague did.  Now everyone has shared their nanobots, antidotes and tech trying to prepare for the coming battle but some people are preparing a few other plans on the side."Psychos" are secretly running Australia and who knows what else behind the scenes.  Skull kidnapped Raphaela and stole her space ship to get out to the decaying Meme space station hoping to find a way to fight the coming Meme before they get to Earth.  The trip to the space station is a long ride and a once hardened Skull seems to be softening up to Raphaela, but these once buried feelings towards another seem to terrify him more than facing the Meme armada.  I found it amusing the way he and Raphaela fumble around their feelings neither human nor Meme/human hybrid seem to know what to do about it.  What happens to potential romance between an hardened killer and a former alien blended with a woman that put life and love on hold?  You'll have to read to find out -- and it is not resolved in this book to stay tuned for Volume 4!