James Patterson’s exciting series for Young Adult Readers which started with The Dangerous Days of Daniel X continues with the sequel, Daniel X: Watch the Skies.  Co-written by Patterson and Ned Rust, Watch the Skies has Daniel going after another alien on his “List”, and this time, he’ll have to fight to save his whole town.

Daniel X is not your typical small-town teen. For one thing, he’s an alien hunter. He can not only see the aliens who have infiltrated Earth, he has a List of the most evil aliens ranked in order, and he has the powers to eliminate them. For help, Daniel relies on very special powers- the ability to create tangible things from his imagination. Like, for example, his own parents, who were killed by aliens, and his best friends. Daniel can also transform himself into anything he can imagine, which helps him significantly in this book.

Daniel’s town of Holliswood has been invaded by Alien # 5,  who takes over humans, then forces them to dance and perform for his intersteller variety show, which he calls “endertainment”.  While battling # 5 and his minions, Daniel also discovers first love. I also had fun reading the chapter where Daniel and his Mom explain to Daniel’s school why he isn’t attending classes, with a “Car Talk”-like list of “experts” that can back up her story for what Daniel is doing that’s more important than school. “Dr. I. M. Trubbell is assessing the state of his bureaucratic mumbo jumbo allergy.” Ha!

The book is fast-paced and the chapters are short, making it easy to tell yourself you will just read “one more chapter”.  Patterson has me wanting Daniel to do more, go more places. If Patterson keeps writing books about Daniel X, I plan to keep reading them!

Pick up Daniel X: Watch the Skies on Amazon.com for only $12.73, what a great deal! Thank you to Mom Central for providing me with the book for review. I loved it!