In some ways, it could be argued that it is extremely simple. This book was action packed and didn't lack in plot or character development. This, as you may have guessed, causes all ends of chaos. Since it is the only Alien, they find out that a drone can turn into a queen and reproduce without the aid of other drones. While Wilks, Billie, and the Marines are taking stock of the Alien homeworld, it is discovered that scientists have an Alien on Earth. Being the only person with experience with these creatures, Wilks is blackmailed into fronting a team of Marines to the planet. Now, after years in their current conditions, the government has decided to send an expedition to the Alien homeworld in order to turn these monsters into a weapon. After putting him through a battery of tests and determining that he was, in fact, telling the truth, the government locked him away from everyone. Wilks, however, is faced with a prison sentence to keep him quiet about his experiences. In an attempt to stop it, they have decided to take drastic measures and preform some sort of lobotomy on her when she starts seeing the Aliens appear in TV. Trying to reprogram Billie's brain, she is made to believe that her experiences on Rim are some sort of reoccurring nightmare/psychotic delusion. After returning the Earth, Billie ends up institutionalized and Wilks is in prison. This book follows the story of Billie and Wilks-the only survivors of the infestation on the planet Rim. I have always loved Ripley and couldn't imagine the Alien world without her. I have never read a series of books based off of a movie, so I was not sure what to expect from this book. Further, he convinced me to read the Predator books as well! However, after watching Prometheus and re-watching the four movies that came out before it, my brother talked me into reading the series.

I have been in love with the movies since my brother first showed me Alien when I was under 10.

~ Amazon Thoughts: Honestly, I'm not sure why it took me so long to read this book. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet-and alien conquest on Earth!' When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens' home planet to bring back a live alien. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. 'Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Opening Lines: 'Even inside her bulky E-suit, Billie could feel the cold night bite at her.'

Earth Hive by Steve Perry