Of Jenny and the Aliens
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Ten years after Earth sent messages out into deep space, there has been an answer. Music from distant planet Pud 5 has reached the world’s radios. Are aliens about to invade? No one knows, and almost-eighteen-year-old Derek doesn’t really care, because at a wild end-of-the-world party, Jennifer Novak invited him to play beer pong, and things, well, progressed from there. Derek is in love. Deeply, hopelessly in love. He wants it all — marriage, kids, growing old on a beach in Costa Rica. For him, Jenny is the One. But Jenny has other plans, which may or may not include Derek. So Derek will try anything to win her — even soliciting advice from an alien who shows up in his hometown. This alien may just be the answer to Derek’s problem, but is Derek prepared to risk starting an intergalactic war to get his girl? Just how far is he willing to travel to discover the mysteries of the universe — and the enigma of love?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Aliens from Alpha Centauri have made first contact, and everyone on Earth is on edge. But amid fears that it's the end of the world, 17-year-old Derek is focused on his crush, Jenny, who has just noticed that he's alive (and helped him lose his virginity after a wild party). As these two storylines intertwine, the juxtaposition of Derek's dizzying rush into first love and a potential alien invasion touches off some of the same base instincts in Gebhart's characters. Derek's odd behavior and his insistence that he has met one of the aliens spurs an intervention from a therapist, but Gebhart (There Will Be Bears) doesn't reach for easy answers or truths. It's up to readers to decide whether Derek's visit to the distant Centaurian planet is real or imagined, in the same way that his obsession with Jenny (who isn't remotely interested in the kind of serious relationship that Derek wants) and the nature of the Centaurians themselves can't be wholly quantified or understood. Ages 16 up.)
