As a carefree kid in the summer of his best years you got down on the ground, eye level, you acted out scenes, made up stories, brought characters to life, set the stage, created adventures, orchestrated epic battles and in the end triumphed, all in confines of a 6 foot sandbox. I could best relate my experience with this book to playing Army men - You didn’t just move plastic pieces around, that is how an adult would play. It was a throw back to my youth and brought a rush of long forgotten memories of how different our perspectives were when we were kids and how exaggerated a child’s mind can be. I don’t recall how I found this book, other then being on a sci-fi hunt but I am glad I did. There is an element of surprise in something so new and a risk/reward that can go any way. The Alien Club is the crossroads of The Goonies, The Outsiders, The Lord of the Flies and Stand by Me (The Body).I enjoy trying books from new writers as a break from the mainstream. Wrought with heroism and hilarious happenings, The Alien Club is a truly mesmerizing journey created by a series of tragic and fanciful events that are thrust in to motion by seemingly mundane issues that grip and alter the trajectory of an innocent youth. Exploiting new lands and people is as old as Adam and Eve, and the neighborhood of La Rue Drive in Huntington, NY is no different than any other lawless land that came before it. The woods of Wilder's are alive with a society and its subsequent undercurrent and underbelly that has the geopolitical landscape rife with factions, friends, fears and fornication. The Alien Club follows the path forged by a ten-year-old boy, blindly clawing his way through the confusing, frightening and utterly fascinating life afforded him via a magical neighborhood situated in suburbia USA, during the summer of 1979. With no handbook and nowhere to turn, you're forced to blaze a path to greatness you're not even sure is your destiny.Ī rich tale of love and war, and the interpersonal relationships that forge them both. Growing and nurturing the one organism you're responsible for, you, is vastly more difficult than the aging terrestrial beings claiming to have lived your life say it is. An alien landscape that stretches from your front door to your first love can be more bizarre, beautiful and unforgiving than any other planet in the Universe. The feelings, sensations, decisions and ramifications of your actions are uncharted territory. When everything is your first, you're an Alien.

The Alien Club by Trel W. Sidoruk