Review: A very different kind of Alien
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2012
Hedge is not human but a plant sent here to live among the humans and observe. The Counsil of the Plants and the Plant of Ultimate Knowing wants to know if humanity is a threat to the universe. So Hedge along with other plants take on human form, where he lives on his farm, tends to his bees, and eats his earthwifes pork chops. Until one day when he is summoned home.This was such a good story. I fell in love with Hedge and some of the other characters. You forget that he is a plant until he reminds you of it. The description of Hedge eating the pork chops, since he has no stomach, and how he gets rid of them had me laughing. The fact that he cares for his wife so much that he makes himself unattractive when he discovers that it hurts her when other women pay attention to him, makes him seem so human. He makes himself fat and bald and Anna loves him even more for it. He tries to come to terms with the fact that although he is a plant he is somehow having human emotions that really come out when he is told that the human race needs to be destroyed. He knows he cannot watch this happen and so decides he must do something to save them.If I could give this story more than 5 stars I would. I will definitely be telling people about this book.