Rebecca Ore: Alien Bootlegger

[jyrgenn]

This is a weird book. The concept of an alien (from outer space, not just a foreigner) meddling in the affairs of redneck moonshiners seems, well, kind of alien. It is to some degree science fiction, which at first you don't really notice; only that people find the idea of an alien in their neighborhood remarkable, perhaps suprising, but not really hair-raising, gives you a hint that the world of this book is not quite the current one as we know it. But it is very close, and as in "Becoming Alien", the humans are very human indeed, excellent characters. And as with that other book, I do not quite know what to make of this one, but had fun reading it.