Daniel X: Watch the Skies (Daniel X, #2)

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Daniel X: Watch the Skies (Daniel X #2)

by James Patterson (Goodreads Author), Ned Rust

3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 · rating details · 3,702 ratings · 267 reviews

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All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen.

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Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Ho...more

Hardcover, 251 pages

Published July 27th 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published January 1st 2009)

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Jun 02, 2012 Tiffany Cooke rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Reluctant teenage readers

Shelves: 2011, science-fiction, young-adult

Watch the Skies Daniel X by James Patterson and Ned Rust is the second book in the Daniel X series. My son Nick and I read it together becaue we both loved Daniel X so much in the first book.
This time Daniel X is fighting a new alien from The List, Number 5. This alien is filming a reality tv show on Earth to entertain his home planet. His minions are torturing humans by making them do silly stunts and then killing them for the tv show. The aliens in the audience love the tv show, and Alien 5...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews

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Daniel is the coolest alien out there! Don't take my word for it...pick up DANIEL X: WATCH THE SKIES and find out for yourself.

This is the second installment in James Patterson's science fiction series aimed at the younger reader.

This time, Daniel is determined to take on number 5 on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. Daniel's father was the keeper of the list, but was murdered when Daniel was very young. He's determined to carry on in his parents' f...more

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May 07, 2013 Max Nichols rated it 5 of 5 stars

The book Daniel X Watch the Skies is a book that is written by James Patterson. It is a sic-fi fantasy that is mainly for young adults. It is about an alien named Daniel who looks a lot like a human but just has special powers like being able to transform into anything that he can imagine. He also can't be friends with anybody because he doesn't want to put anybody in danger so he just imagines friends that he can fight the alien number 5 with. Alein number 5 is a giant floating catfish with ele...more

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Mar 08, 2013 Eli rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Daniel X series is one of my favorite book series by James Patterson. This book only convinced me moreso. Daniel is just an ordinary boy. And by ordinary, I mean he's an Alien Hunter from the planet Alparia. He's also thought of as the greatest superhero ever, mainly because of his power, which is creating anything he wants with his imagination. As I said earlier, he's an Alien Hunter, and the aliens he hunts are other aliens. Alien outlaws. He decides who he goes after by using something ca...more The Daniel X series is one of my favorite book series by James Patterson. This book only convinced me moreso. Daniel is just an ordinary boy. And by ordinary, I mean he's an Alien Hunter from the planet Alparia. He's also thought of as the greatest superhero ever, mainly because of his power, which is creating anything he wants with his imagination. As I said earlier, he's an Alien Hunter, and the aliens he hunts are other aliens. Alien outlaws. He decides who he goes after by using something called The List. The List tells Daniel all the worst alien outlaws, and tells him their ranking. The whole reason he is an Alien Hunter is because when he was three years old, his parents were killed by Number 1 on The List; The Prayer. Now his mission is to kill every single alien on The List.
In this second book in the Daniel X series, Daniel is going after Number 5 on The List. Number 5 is basically an intergalactic TV show director, and recently, he's created a new form of entertainment; endertainment. Endertainment is what happens when a sick and twisted alien wants to make humans do ridiculous things, and when they're done, kill them. So you can see why Daniel wants to kill this guy. I will say, I really like this villain. He's not doing this for any real reason, other than to get a laugh out of it. Reminds me a little of a less-crazy Joker. The book starts with Daniel learning more about Number 5 as he goes on, and what surprises him most is the fact that Number 5 always seems to know where Daniel is, and communicates to him through any electronic screen he wants. But before this Daniel saves a girl, Judy, from Number 5's henchbeasts. He develops a sort-of crush on her. As Daniel and his friends and family (created by his imagination) find out more on Number 5, trying to figure wehre he resides, they find out more and more about him, like how he can inhabit electronics. I won't spoil anymore for you though. I recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi and adventure. Hope you enjoyed the review.(less)

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Oct 20, 2012 Debbie Tanner rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, fantasy-fiction, science-fiction, young-adult

I thought this was a really silly adventure book. It's the second one in the series and I didn't read the first one but I could pretty much figure out what was going on. And what's going on is a lot. The main character Daniel is an alien fighter. You wouldn't know it, but there are apparently a lot of aliens around. Daniel's parents were also alien hunters but were murdered by a dastardly villain called Prayer. Happily, they left a list of all the evil aliens that need to be destroyed, in case a...more

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Aug 12, 2011 Karl rated it 2 of 5 stars

Yeah..................................................................................................This book wasn't amazing..............................................................................
My friend loaned it to me along with the first (he loves them)........................................
It's like a more poorly-written more non-story driven version of "Max"................................
If that is even possible.......................................................................more

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Jun 07, 2011 Melissa Conway rated it 3 of 5 stars

I paid $19.99 for the hardback (published by Hachette Book Group), a sum the average teen would be hard-pressed to part with for a book that didn’t also slide neatly into the slot of his Wii.

As a woman squarely in middle-age (depending on how you calculate my potential life-span), I am clearly not the target audience for this testosterone-fueled romp, but I liked it nonetheless. Each short chapter ended in a mini-cliffhanger that kept me turning the page, much like a snowball rolling down a stee...more I paid $19.99 for the hardback (published by Hachette Book Group), a sum the average teen would be hard-pressed to part with for a book that didn’t also slide neatly into the slot of his Wii.

As a woman squarely in middle-age (depending on how you calculate my potential life-span), I am clearly not the target audience for this testosterone-fueled romp, but I liked it nonetheless. Each short chapter ended in a mini-cliffhanger that kept me turning the page, much like a snowball rolling down a steep slope, picking up whatever is in its path and flinging bits of detritus to the wind.

If I were a teenaged boy, I’d eat this stuff up, assuming my usual diet was filled with stomach-turning descriptions of slimy aliens and the nasty ways they kill and devour people. It almost felt like I was reading the script for a television show on Nickelodeon, you know, except for the graphic violence. Although, given the average Spongebob episode, even the violence isn’t that bad—for a teen thoroughly inured to it, as I suspect most these days are.

This is the second in the Daniel X series (I haven’t read the first). [Plot summary/spoilers ahead!] I had a hard time pegging the exact target-age the authors were going for, especially after the huge, blobby fish-alien antagonist has impregnated all the unfortunate women in a small American town with its wriggling tadpoles. It’s meant to be horrific in a humorous way, and it is. Only—as the mother of a young boy who is an advanced reader—the objectification of these zombified pregnant gals gave me a twinge of concern if the reader happened to be, say, a fifth-grader who isn’t even clear on how babies are made. I’m not here to start a debate on what’s appropriate in a young adult novel. In this book, people are forced to carry alien progeny, and people die hideously; it’s all in good fun.

As I continued reading, I found myself wondering: if Daniel has the imaginary power to point his finger with his thumb cocked like a gun and blow a hole a mile deep into the ground, turn himself into a mosquito, or teleport himself away from danger, where’s the room for a plot to even develop? He should be able to breeze in and out, enemies smoking in a burnt-out crater behind him—but no. Daniel wants to know what the bad guys are up to, and his snooping ways let the creepy-crawlies get the jump on him. This allows for moments in the storyline where the reader is *almost* tense at the outcome (if I’m a thirteen year old boy, then I probably *am* tense). Will Daniel succeed? Will his imaginary friends get hurt or killed, and if they do, how long until he simply brings them back to “life?” The story is told in first-person point of view in Daniel’s voice, and I kind of felt like he wasn’t being honest with the reader. He’s got the power to do virtually anything with his mind. He’s young and his powers are just developing, but does he know he’s going to win; is he just playing with the bad guys like a cat toys with a cricket? Of course, his parents were killed by the topmost baddie on the most-wanted aliens list when Daniel was three, but we don’t know (maybe the first book answers this question) if his parents had the same powers as he does. If so, then Daniel’s mom-and-dad-slaying nemesis would have to be invincible indeed, and the reader can assume Daniel and this super-villain will definitely clash in a sequel near you.

Sprinkled throughout the narrative are some not-so-hidden messages for the reader, as if the authors couldn’t resist tossing in a few political opinions about our broken school systems (what better platform than a bunch of pre-voting adolescents?) These messages are not preachy; on the contrary, they are quite amusing, like when Daniel’s imagined mother provides the school with sarcastic lists of why he’ll be absent on successive days (“Dr. I. M. Trubbell is assessing the state of his bureaucratic mumbo jumbo allergy.”)

All-in-all, Daniel X qualifies as a “good” read in my book, but it’s probably an “awesome” read to its target audience, red-blooded teenage boys who’d like nothing better than to be like Daniel; whipping out the biggest gun, smearing alien guts all over the place, getting the coolest, prettiest girl—anything he imagines.

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Jun 19, 2010 Monica Chin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: summer-read-books-2010

Strange matters arise when the town beams light from all it’s electronic devices. The people in town are being slaughtered for entertainment. Women are becoming pregnant from eating caviar. Has the world gone mad? No, it’s only alien number five making a spectacular gory movie of human killings and the glorious finale of Daniel X’s death. Who is this Daniel X aliens are rooting to die? He is one among the few left of his kind, an alien hunter. Daniel is on the hunt to kill every alien on The Lis...more

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Apr 03, 2010 Mardel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Daniel X is a teen-age alien hunter with some special powers of his own. He rides a motorbike and can do wheelies on his front tire. He has four imaginary friends, but unlike most kids, he can materialize them and they often help him out when he needs help, or just keep him company when he needs company.

The town of Holliswood is being taken over by aliens - from outer-space. These particular aliens are able to manipulate the radio waves, and t.v. stations to control humans. They also like to eat...more Daniel X is a teen-age alien hunter with some special powers of his own. He rides a motorbike and can do wheelies on his front tire. He has four imaginary friends, but unlike most kids, he can materialize them and they often help him out when he needs help, or just keep him company when he needs company.

The town of Holliswood is being taken over by aliens - from outer-space. These particular aliens are able to manipulate the radio waves, and t.v. stations to control humans. They also like to eat humans, after they make them dance around, filming them for entertainment. The head alien is a director. Even though there are some horrific things that happen to humans, the way it's written it's not very graphic or gross. Most teens have watched plenty of movies and shows that contain much worse than is shown in this book.

Daniel X needs to find a way to stop the aliens from taking over the town, and eventually the whole world for the purpose of filming, eating and using the world and it's inhabitants as entertainment for the rest of the universe. But the alien in charge of this epic project, (alien no. 5) seems to always be one step ahead of Daniel X, and in fact is planning to use Daniel in the finale of the series that he's filming. Daniel X meets a young girl and her strange parents. He is has quite a challenge solving this crisis, things go wrong but he perseveres.

I found the narrative of this book interesting, and the dialogue between characters was pretty good. There's some snarky dialogue between aliens and Daniel X, and intelligent dialogue between Daniel X and his friends/family. Though gross things are happening, there isn't over the top descriptions, but there is enough to keep a teen or tween interested in the story. Daniel X also is not a do it yourself type of hero, he takes advice and help from his friends...although they are a product of his imagination. Maybe because it's written from the pov of a teenage boy, one who has been hunting aliens, but there doesn't seem to be much to his personality - there's a little history we learn as we read, and little things he quips. He seems to care about animals and humans. It's just not very in depth - the presenting of his personality.

This was a cute, light/horror sci-fi book. The only thing that kind of got to me, was more the set up of the book. There are 91 chapters in this 251 page book. How can that be, do you wonder? most of these chapters are two pages long. As in half of one page (the beginning of the chapter) and half or a little over half of the second page (that would be the ending of this epic chapter). So really, I believe this book could have been condensed into 125 pages (approximately). I don't know if the authors meant for the book to be set up this way as a dramatic way of separating scenes, or if this was done to "flesh out" the book. There were quite a few of the 2-page chapters that could have been combined. A few of the chapters were really a continuation of the previous chapter. That's my only complaint of the book, and it's not anything to do with content or writing talent.

Overall this is a entertaining book, a light read even with the horror aspects.(less)

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Mar 27, 2010 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

I didn't realize (not knowing that this was part of a series) that this was Young Adult until I started listening to it. But the second that I started listening to it, it became very clear very quick that this was geared towards teens.

Daniel X is an alien hunter. He is something of a superhero from another planet, hunting down dangerous aliens that would bring harm to earth. He is assisted by a motley gang of cohorts that left me a bit confused. I'm still unclear whether they were real or figmen...more

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Jan 23, 2010 Cornerofmadness rated it 3 of 5 stars

I recently read a review where they complained James is only in it for the money and seeing the sheer amount of chapters for OTHER books (I think there were 5) attached to this I can see where that argument came from. I know this is the second in the series. I missed the first (had a different co-author too) but you didn’t really need it.

Was this James Patterson at his best? Not even close. Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t bad. In fact it was entertaining enough, a very fast read but it’s like popc...more

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Nov 05, 2009 Aaron rated it 2 of 5 stars

Daniel X is back on Earth and has settled in the small community of Holliswood. Our 14-year-old Alien Hunter (think Men in Black) is focusing on trying to deal with Number 5 on his list of most dangerous aliens on Earth. It is expected to be the biggest challenge he has.

Fortunately for him, his own alien nature gives him special abilities such as the ability to bring to physical form anything he can imagine just like DC Comic's Green Lantern Corp. This allows him to bring back his parents, who h...more Daniel X is back on Earth and has settled in the small community of Holliswood. Our 14-year-old Alien Hunter (think Men in Black) is focusing on trying to deal with Number 5 on his list of most dangerous aliens on Earth. It is expected to be the biggest challenge he has.

Fortunately for him, his own alien nature gives him special abilities such as the ability to bring to physical form anything he can imagine just like DC Comic's Green Lantern Corp. This allows him to bring back his parents, who he watched killed by his first nemesis (the Prayer), and a group of friends, ready with kung-fu and smarts, to help him take on outsiders.

Number 5 is a unique villain. He is out for fame as he uses his attacks on worlds around the galaxy as the basis for reality television. He tapes everything that he does, and it gets him great ratings. He even brings along Number 21, pretty much a tough grunt, to help.

Our nefarious villain starts by sending cans of caviar to all the residents of Holliswood. Before long, all of the females are pregnant, and almost everyone is walking around willing to do whatever he askes, including periodically falling into song and dance High School Musical style. He also has the ability to network with all electronics, giving him access to everyone in the town.

Daniel also gets his first chance at romance when he meets a waitress named Judy at the local diner. He brings her into his circle of friends and knowledge about who he really is. She proves to be pretty tough, for just a human.

The concept of this series is actually pretty good. The first novel was a strong story that brought Daniel across the galaxy as he takes on the man who killed his parents (think Harry Potter). Now that Daniel has returned to his post on Earth, the concept is interesting, but I find that the whole book just tries to much and doesn't really live up to the potential. Maybe it is because so many of the plot devices and character details are stolen from other sources (just check out all the reference in just this short review). It also tries to really be funny, but most of the time it is corny.

The characters are interesting, but it ends up just being really sad that everyone in Daniel's life is imaginary and exist solely because of his imagination. In some ways, this just makes Daniel a very sad and pathetic character rather than making him seem strong because he accomplishes his heroics basically on his own. I am not sure I understand why he needs to be solitary. Granted, he seems to move to a new location with each book, but lets give the kid some real friends.

It is a light read... in fact, I finished the whole thing in about 2 hours, which is not really all that different from most of Patterson's books. I find them fun, but I am hoping that the writing gets stronger in the next book in the series.(less)

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Jul 30, 2009 Julie rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: ehh, not sure I would

Recommended to Julie by: I apparently like to torture myself

Shelves: 2009, science-fiction, young-adult, from-library

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. After absolutely hating the first Daniel X book, I'm really not sure why I even picked this up. I guess I was holding out hope that it might be a little better (it would be hard for it to be worse...). Besides, Patterson changed collaborators this time around, so there was a CHANCE it would be different. And they are such fast reads that it wouldn't take THAT much time out of my life even if it really did suck.

All that said, it was okay - maybe just a bit better than the first book. The problem...more

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Nov 23, 2012 Charlotte Phillips rated it 3 of 5 stars

To be honest, the book wasn't all that, but it was still an entertaining write that really seemed to engage the mind with a sense of, what would you do? I think a lot of us joke about the fact that perhaps one day aliens could take over the world, but what if they really could? what would you do and how would you handle it? In this book we see exactly that, but I found it a little strange. Now, yes, this is the second book in the series and I have not read the first series, but that didn't seem...more To be honest, the book wasn't all that, but it was still an entertaining write that really seemed to engage the mind with a sense of, what would you do? I think a lot of us joke about the fact that perhaps one day aliens could take over the world, but what if they really could? what would you do and how would you handle it? In this book we see exactly that, but I found it a little strange. Now, yes, this is the second book in the series and I have not read the first series, but that didn't seem to really matter about not having read it because you still knew what was happening. I liked the idea of the story because all too often writers are writing about vampires zombies and werewolfes, so reading about aliens and not good aliens really seemed to almost, well it seemed like the young adult version of war of the worlds with a bit of spark and jazz to it. The book flowed and you did seem to understand what it was that they were heading for, in that there was a bad alien that was in the list of top ten that seriously needed to be gone and he was causing havoc that could really and ultimately destroy the world.

We also then have daniel, the alien hunter who is in fact an alien himself. I suppose that in book one we actually discover his whole identity and the history of him, so I might have to see if my library has it as there not very good at having book one of a series. Daniel though seems to live and enjoy life via his imagination. His family are dead but he can imagine them up as if they had never died at all, then there is the alien busting squad or his friends. I think this in itself was a thought provoking element for me because it made me question the real feelings of daniel, after all surely if he is an alien, he must be lonely to not be able to spend time with real people? or maybe there is a reason why he doesn't want to? you get the feeling that there is a lot more than meets the eyes with the main character and that does leave you wanting to read on because in most series you do discover so much more.

The story was ok, simplistic and the chapters were odd, like some of them were only a page long which seemed pointless to me, it was like just one of nothing before you got to a real point of the book that was worthy reading. So that was highly irritating, but it seems to be something that a lot of authors like doing and it is something that I would like to question why. But the story and the plot was different and it is therefore possible that it will shine out from a crowd of books because it is different. Im not really sure if I therefore enjoyed it or not. it had a great point to it, it was engaging and seemed to open my eyes to many different things and possibilities that could occur, but it was also a bit....short, a bit brief and simplistic in places. I would say its not one of james pattersons best novels, but Im also guessing its aimed at people a lot younger than me. (less)

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Apr 19, 2012 Cory B rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Aug 25, 2009 Kristen Leong rated it 4 of 5 stars

Daniel X returns with another story of how he and his friends triumph over the evil aliens bent on taking over the world. Trite? Sort of. But you have to give Patterson props for writing a book that can make anyone "aged ten to one hundred and ten" keep flipping those pages.
Kind of like how I view the Twilight phenomenon.

Anyways, Daniel X is taking down Number Five on the list this time--and it's going to be his toughest task to date because Number Five is always one step ahead of him. Which is...more

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Jul 10, 2010 Isaac Hamlet rated it 1 of 5 stars

IF you hate the first book don't come back for the sequal. I don't know why I did. Perhaps in hopes that since he did so well with maximum ride that I hoped he would redeme himself. HE didn't. I hate this book and am so glad i didn't buy It. In truth I didn't even finish it I just skimed it to see where it got good. SPIOLER; It's good at the last word of the last page, you know, where the head ach ends.
Seriously don't even concider this book. The begining is interesting, mind controling aliens a...more

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Jun 06, 2009 Karin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009-reads, youngadult, aliens

Once again Daniel, who readers met in The Dangerous Days of Daniel X, is on the hunt for a big, bad alien from The List. This time it is Number 5, a creepy catfish looking alien with the ability to manipulate electricity and electric devices.

Number 5 is in Holliswood for a reason. He has a plan for the residents. Number 5 plans to make the people of Holliswood the stars of his latest interstellar reality television show. Number 5 coined the phrase endertainment because he kills the people at the...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Vito C. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Patterson, James, and Ned Rust. Daniel X: Watch The Skies.1st ed. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. 001-251. Print.
Daniel X, my favorite alien hunter, is back and ready to hunt more aliens in this, the second, of James Patterson’s Daniel X series, Daniel X: Watch The Skies. Daniel X, the main character, is an alien hunter who has the power to create things by using his imagination. He is on a quest to eliminate the alien who killed his parents when he was three years old. In this b...more

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Oct 13, 2011 Jimmy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Jimmy by: iTunes

Shelves: audiobooks-itunes, young-adult-teen

2 1/2 Stars It Was Okay/I Like It: I liked this audiobook less than the previous. The Daniel X series remains to be highly recommended for pre-teen/teen audiences, but for me it was only just entertaining. Milo the narrator continues to give me the reason to continue listening to this high action, a bit gross at times, and weird mystery alien TV show story. He gives the villain a voice that reminds me of Admiral Ackbar from ‘The Return of the Jedi’. Where this story lost me was the lack of direc...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Christopher Cook rated it 3 of 5 stars

The main point that I have to make regarding this novel is that I strongly feel that it is a much bolder effort than that of the first of the series. The first novel is somewhat scrappy and disorganized, containing a lot of unnecessary fluff that really has nothing to do with the overarching story, but this novel was not like that by any means, at least not by such extreme means, anyway. This one manages to get directly to the point while still having a lot of fun. I also felt that it flows very...more

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Feb 06, 2010 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

I almost gave this a 3...but finally went with 2. It's "not too bad".

I certainly don't "know" so I can't speak with any kind of authority, but this book makes me suspect something. I wonder if possibly Mr. Patterson may not have discovered the wonderful world of "franchising". In other words, his name is there with the co-author, but it makes one wonder.

The fist Daniel X book was I'd say marginally better than this one. I actually picked this one up with fairly high hopes. The idea of an alien...more

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Feb 09, 2010 Andrea rated it 1 of 5 stars

Nowhere on the cover or in the review does it reveal that this is a book for 14 year old boys. I'm not sure it wasn't written by a 14 year old boy. I bought it through my Mystery Book Club thinking it would be a departure from Patterson's usual murder/thriller stuff. It was really awful. A teenage alien has come to earth to hunt other aliens who have invaded with the intent of taking over. The bad aliens are silly and gross while the "hero" is more interested in a human teenage girl than stoppin...more

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Jan 06, 2010 Holly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: juvenile

Another alien hunter book! I also read this one outloud to my 9 year old. He loved it. I read the first one alone to make sure it was appropriate- I didn't do this with this one and panicked when halfway through the book the women of the town were all pregnant with alien babies. Mercifully they got that way from eating caviar ( the bad alien is a giant catfish). There were some kissing scenes between Daniel and his crush Judy, but nothing offensive. AJ rolled his eyes for those few pages. I thin...more

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Dec 06, 2009 Kirthi rated it 4 of 5 stars

I I didn't like this book as much as the first one, probably because there's a co-author, Ned Rust. James Patterson's amazing creativity was speckled with Ned's not-so-amazing creativity. I'm satisfied though, most of what lacked in this book was made up with the most revolting, unimaginable terrors that shocked me. Daniel is a fun, easygoing, deadly killing machine, who is actually portrayed as a hero. I'd love to read an alien's point of view on Daniel, haha.
Lately I think I've been rating too...more

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May 25, 2012 Sean rated it 4 of 5 stars

Um... well this book improved the series. It was better than the last one because it had originality. The cover is still depressing because it doesn't depict Daniel doing some cool pose. I barely gave this four stars. BARELY. I was going to give it a three, but after weighing the book's pros and cons, the book slightly made it over the four star line. SLIGHTLY. Like 1% sort of slight. Aside from all the minor issues of flat moments and a bit of flat humor, it felt like James Patterson didn't rea...more

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Jan 02, 2010 S.E. Allain rated it 2 of 5 stars

Sigh. This book is written like Maximum Ride. If you've read those books, then you know. It gets kind of obnoxious after awhile, I mean, the main character's asides to the reader. The idea of this book is cool though. Maybe if I was a kid I'd like it more. Unfortunately, I'm not. Somehow, this book was good enough to make me read the second (of course my dad had this book, so I just stole it from him. I didn't go out and buy it). But the second one was even harder to get through than the first (...more

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Dec 09, 2009 Nancy rated it 2 of 5 stars

I felt that Watch the Skies was not nearly as good as the original (The Dangerous Days of Daniel X) novel. The two books have different co-authors; and the difference in style, quality, and overall feel of the books leads me to wonder how much actual writing James Patterson is doing for this series.

I will probably read the future books in this series, but will be more inclined to borrow them or wait for a really good deal, rather than buy as soon as they become available.

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Feb 20, 2013 Varun Sriram rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's book 2 of the Dangerous Days of Daniel X. This time he's facing off against number 5, a "floating catfish with tentacles" who happens to break into peoples houses, forces them to do what he wants with his mind power, and after he's done with them, he melts them into goo and lets his minions drink it up. Also apart of his evil plot, he lets the humans he destroys be on his show, by filming them as they do crazy stuff. What a twisted mind. Daniel X shows off what awesome powers he has in this...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Spencer Brokaw rated it 5 of 5 stars

The second book of this series was not a let-down. It was almost as fantastic if not more than the first. I read it last year and thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions and the fantastic "alien" words used. It was a great thriller, and I plan on finishing the series. I loved the villain, he was perfectly evil as all of the alien doers are. The people that don't like this book should. There is nothing not to like, I liked every bit. The short chapters are great, and I loved the mini-cliffhangers the...more

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