Book Review: Alien:River of Pain.

Alien River of Pain is for me the final insult in a series of unadulterated fan wank like novels....if they were written buy fans who never watched the movies. Sloppy writing and shoe horning like your trying to fit a square block  into a saxophone. Christ this book is bad on so many levels.

Christopher Golden story centers around the fall of the colony Lv-426....cool, cool only got to see a bit of that in the Dark horse comic Newts tale and the faith of the Marine Unit stationed there!...Wait what?
What fucking marine unit. There was no mention of marine unit at the Colony. Did it slip Bruke or Gormans mind to mention it and get this there was also a research vessel there which with to escape. Right so heres the big issues with this added plot point.

• If there was marines on LV-426 already how come the Marine squad sent there didnt seem to know anything about it. Hicks or Aphone were never like maybe we could check to see if any of the jarheads stationed there are alive. For that matter how come when the got stranded and are low on ammo they never go "hay lets check the unit that was stationed here's barracks for more Pulse-rifle ammo and weapons. 
• Frost states that most of the damage done to the colony was small arms fire and explosives used for mining not USCM weaponery which these guys seemed to have.
• The Hero Captain Brackett manages to escape with some of the colonists and while the story states he's trying to avoid contacting Wayland-Yutani the jerk never bothered to send out a transmission saying "yeah the planets fucked....dont risk your lives trying to save people cause their dead and you will be two if you land there!"
• Agien when shit hit the fan with the dropship gone and the reactor going to blow how come no one bothered to check the colony logs to see...holy shit theres a ship stationed here. Fuck it I know it was gone at this stage but surely some one might have gone...yeah the colony might have a ship maybe we should double check.
• They told Ripley that it might be nothing only a downed transmitter then why send more fucking marines if you had ones there already....sure those ones had their own communications unit. You could argue Bruke knew what went done but still wouldnt Wayland-Yuntani want keep the USCM outta its shit as much as possible.

Also the story has this fucking god aweful subplot involving Newts moms relationship with this Marine Captain Brackett which hits ever so slightly he might be Newts real father. Golden also gets lazey and pulls segements straight from the movie but not just Aliens but Alien also...and word for word....thats not writing thats dictating a fucking script to a novel. Then agien I should have seen how bad this books was when the slogan was The prequal story of the Doomed Colony Hardlys Hope from the blockbuster movie Alien!. 
They couldnt even get the fucking movie right. Sweet christ this book is indeed a river of pain and a lake of shit. I rather get facehugged then have to read another one of these fucking books agien.  Aviod this book like the smallpox.