well written,alien boy saves abused girl in the nick of time.what a creative imagination....mailed to fellow bookcrosser in illinois

Received today in the mail from fellow BCer. Thanks oldreader! It looks like a great book and I'm anxious to start reading it and then pass it on to Wisconsin. 3 weeks on the USA Today top-10 Bestseller list:
#4 on 11/3/02
#5 on 11/10/02 and 11/17

p. 176 - "He glances back into a blaze of headlights and sees the white-haired woman gazing out and down at him from behind the windshield of the Windchaser. She's half out of her seat, pulling herself up with the steering wheel, the better to see him. From here, she might be mistaken for an innocent and kindly woman -- perhaps a librarian, considering that a librarian would know how easily a book of monsters could be disguised as a sweet romance novel with just a switch of the dust jackets."

I finished this yesterday. It's a little too on the horror side of the genre for my taste so I had a little trouble getting through it. But it is a well written book about utilitarian bioethics. It has a huge climax at the end ... it slowly builds all throughout the book with 3 different story-lines going on at once ... and then they all come together in Idaho ... and hanging-on-to-every-word excitement in the next-to-last chapter.

I'm mailing this today to Wisconsin.