Review: My Kind of Apocalypse!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2012
"Zack and Zoey's Alien Apocalypse" by MJA Ware is the ideal book if you want to grin from ear to ear while reading something. This was a charming, delightful story of an alien invasion, with buffoonery by the adults and heroism by the children. There are some classic "3 Stooges" types of one-liners in here. First, the President of the United States greets the visiting aliens by saying "On behalf of the people of Earth I'd like to offer my hand..." to which one alien says "don't mind if I do" as he bites off the President's hand! Then, later, the children need to get to the "old folks home" known somewhat dubiously as "Shady Grave". Not the place I'd wish to spend my declining years!Zack and Zoey are two elementary or middle school students who have been best friends forever, but Zoey thinks they are "a couple" because of something that happened clear back in the second grade. Zack, on the other hand, does not agree with her assessment of their relationship. While alien ships are capturing school kids to eat, Zack, Zoey, Sunny and others try various methods to thwart them. In spite of their efforts, Zoey gets caught up in a blue bubble and beamed aboard a ship. Sunny tells Zack the aliens will be going to Shady Grave soon, so they steal the Principal's car (and why not? He had locked all the kids outside so the aliens would eat them instead of the adults) and basically gave themselves an impromptu driving lesson en route to the retirement home. Once there, they saw the elders were also locked out to feed the aliens, while the staff remained locked inside, so Zack drove through the double doors to give the seniors access to safety. But one crusty old curmudgeon wanted to help defeat the aliens, and teamed up with the kids just as the space ships arrived overhead.I won't give away any more details. This book is just too darned enjoyable for me to ruin it for you. I recommend this book, but ONLY for readers between 8 and 80, give or take a couple years. By any means possible, you need to get Zack and Zoey's Alien Apocalypse for the reading pleasure of yourself, your children, your grandchildren, your god-children, and any other youngsters you happen to know! You all will be grinning the whole way through the book. I give it 5 alien stars!