Leigh Dunlap

The Halifax siblings are not your normal kids. They are three alien enforcers that are trying to keep the Earth from being destroyed. We start when a prison barge crash-lands and one of the prisoners escapes. The Halifax kids enroll in the school where the barge crashed to find the missing prisoner. But it is not going to be an easy hunt.

Farrell is enrolled as a top basketball player and runs into trouble as the star player Andre doesn’t like the competition. It doesn’t help that Nora, a sad cheerleader and Andre’s girlfriend, also distracts Farrell. Izzy is not having any better luck. She is sensitive to emotions, but being in a high school full of teenagers is not giving her a good enough read. Rom is the youngest and smartest of the bunch. He is always inventing things, but he gets into trouble when his intelligence gets him into trouble with his math teacher.

I really liked this story. There was great action and a twist ending. Great concept for the story that made you feel for the characters, especially Nora and Rom. I really hope that there are going to be more books to this. It would make a wonderful series.

I received this book for free from Book Rooster in exchange for an honest review.… (more)

This is one of those under-the-radar but wonderfully written indie books.

One's a handsome leader. One's a rebel with an empathy streak a mile wide. And one's a genius inventor too dumb to realize when he's insulting half the planet. Together, the make up the West Coast division of the Committee. Think the teenage version of Men In Black... if the MIB had been aliens. When a prison barge crash-lands at an uber-preppy school, the trio must go undercover to find the homicidal escapee. The fate of the world depends on them.

Screenwriter and first-time novelist Leigh Dunlap has delivered a fun, fast-paced book about teenage angst and alien conquest. The character of Mom is particularly brilliant. I do have some stylistic quibbles with the book, but they're probably not things that your normal non-word-choice-obsessed reader will care about, or perhaps even notice. All in all, a great book straddling the middle grade and young adult categories. I'm looking forward to the sequel.… (more)