This time Daniel X is fighting a new alien from The List, Number 5. This alien is filming a reality tv show on Earth to entertain his home planet. His minions are torturing humans by making them do silly stunts and then killing them for the tv show. The aliens in the audience love the tv show, and Alien 5 is sure they will get incredible ratings back home. The aliens are spreading the love by impregnating the women of the town who ate the free sardine samples they found in their mailboxes. Daniel X has to figure out how to help the pregnant women in his town and stop Alien #5 before he becomes the headline act of the new reality show.
I liked this book almost as much as the first one, but Nick was disappointed in the new alien. He felt that Alien Number 5 wasn't as developed as Seth was in the first book. He also felt that Daniel wasn't as funny as he had been in the original novel. Although he didn't like it as much as the original book, he still liked it a lot.
This book has short chapters which added to the excitement of the book. You feel like you are rushing headlong into every experience Daniel experiences. Daniel has a sarcastic sense of humor that had both of us giggling nearly every night we read. It is a quick read and one that you don't want to stop reading. I recommend this book for reluctant readers, especially boys.
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