Roadkill

by Dennis E. Taylor

Paperback, 346 pages

Published Dec. 2, 2022 by Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.

ISBN:: 978-1-68068-312-7

Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth in the latest thrill ride by Dennis E. Taylor, author of the Audible and New York Times best-selling Bobiverse series.

Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something big...something furry...something invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth.

Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race. All Jack and his best friends, Natalie and Patrick, have to defeat an alien threat is their wits, a lot of coffee, and a rather …

After all, if you’re going to rescue the world, the least you can get out of it is your own spaceship.

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2 stars

I enjoyed Dennis E. Taylor's Bobbaverse books. Somehow the formula doesn't work for me in Roadkill.

The familiar surroundings of contemporary earth creates a dissonance with the constant pop culture references that was integral in the space adventure setting of the Bobbaverse.

The slow pacing also didn't match the exactment the characters told me they were experiencing.

Things only pick up towards the very end of the novel.