Touched by an Alien

I love this book! I devoured it in a couple of hours and re-read it 3 times already. Can't wait for the next book!

If you're a smart, funny woman, you will dig this book. I love Kitty's sense of humor, her taste in shoes, her purse with contents far too like my own. I could go on and on. The really wonderful thing about this adventure is how expertly Gini Koch handles all those smart questions we smart readers think as we come along for the ride. Though Kitty has landed in the middle of some out of this world stuff, she lives in my world. She knows my music, my movies, all of it. I can't wait for Alien Tango and not just because I'm completely smitten with Martini. Thanks, Gini Koch, for such a fun read!

I thought this was going to be a stupid book - but I picked it up based on a friends reccomendation and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! I started reading it and finished it the very next day...I couldn't put it down. Gini Koch is an excellent writer and is very creative - there were parts in this book that made me laugh too! Can't wait until the next one!

I picked up this book randomly at an airport. I was bored and wanted something to read. It turned out to be a really fun book. The main character is a fun, edgy heroine. She's smart and sarcastic. The supporting characters are full of personality as well. Sometimes the dialogue gets a little long winded, and some of the 'theories' in the book seem far fetched. But I am hoping that futures books in the series will turn out just as much fun. The book is not perfect, but it's a good start. It has potential. Hence, the 5 stars.

This is the first book in Gini Koch's Katherine "Kitty" Katt series. It is available as both a paperback and e-book. I really thoroughly and surprisingly loved this book. Seriously, it's awesome. I found this book because of the cover art. The artist is the incredibly talented Daniel Dos Santos, who draws all of Patricia Briggs's `Mercy Thompson' US covers. I saw this image up on his website as apart of his book covers portfolio - and because I do judge a book by its cover, I went hunting and found it was Gini Koch's `Touched by an Alien'. The title kind of threw me, and I almost didn't bother. Aliens may be how the science fiction genre got its kick-start, but I wasn't sure about an alien themed book. The closest I've come is Ann Aguirre's `Sirantha Jax' series - which I really love, but is set in another galaxy, not present-day earth. I was under the assumption that any alien invasion scifi book would be along the geeky lines of Star Trek. Boy, was I wrong and naïve. A lot happens right from page one. The opening chapter involves Katherine "Kitty" Katt (yes it's a stupid name, she only has her parents to blame) witnessing a domestic dispute turn deadly. She watches as a man kills his wife, and then sprout wings with dagger feathers. Katherine bizarrely goes into autopilot; grabbing her Mont Blanc pen she rugby-tackles this weird creature, and innately knows precisely where to stab and kill him. After her hero-routine she's swooped up by a group of hunky Armani-clad `agents' who take her somewhere called `home base' in New Mexico where they none too delicately break the news to her that aliens exist, and she might just have a job killing them... Intense, huh? As the story unfolds Katherine discovers that these `agents' don't work for Homeland Security, but are actually an alien race called `Alpha Centauri', sent to planet earth to protect us from a parasitic alien species that want to make drones of us all. This is a fun, fast-paced and sexy read that shouldn't be taken too seriously. `Touched by an Alien' leans toward the melodramatic and outlandish -but it's fun and Koch works it so well. Halfway through the first chapter you realize that Koch isn't basing this story in any sort of realist, nitty-gritty reality - it's much more of an Alien/scifi soap opera. But it totally works. Especially because a good chunk of the story revolves around a very intense and unique love story. One of the Armani-clad alien agents is Jeff Martini, and one of the first sentences out of his mouth to Katherine is "will you marry me?" Throughout those vital information-dumping chapters Martini provides comic relief and surprising chemistry whenever he turns to Katherine and says "so, how many kids do you want?" and "no, seriously - marry me!" He may sound creepy and clingy, but he doesn't come across that way at all. This is the quickest romance I have ever read, and I'm a little in awe of how well it works. Martini is very up-front and truthful in his attract