Review of Invaded by Melissa Landers

Review of Melissa

Landers' Invaded

Release Date: February 3rd, 2015

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:


The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe...until a threat to both their worlds reunites them.

Cara always knew life on planet L’eihr would be an adjustment. With Aelyx, her L’eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. Even the weird dorm pet hates her.

Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L’eihr. A society melding their two cultures is a place where Cara and Aelyx could one day make a life together. But with L’eihr leaders balking at granting even the most basic freedoms, Cara begins to wonder if she could ever be happy on this planet, even with Aelyx by her side.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds himself thrown into a full-scale PR campaign to improve human-L’eihr relations. Humans don’t know that their very survival depends on this alliance: only Aelyx’s people have the technology to fix the deadly contamination in the global water supply that human governments are hiding. Yet despite their upper hand, the leaders of his world suddenly seem desperate to get humans on their side, and hardly bat an eye at extremists’ multiple attempts on Aelyx’s life.

The Way clearly needs humans’ help . . . but with what? And what will they ask for in return?


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I have to say, I was a very big fan of Alienated, so I had been dying to read Invaded. I have not been reading as much or as quickly as I wish I could this year. It has been over a month since the book was released, so it goes with out saying, when I picked the book up, I wanted to savor every minute of reading it.


This book chronicles the first time that Cara and Aelyx will have been apart since he arrived on Earth. While Aelyx is forced to go back to Earth to try and fix the alliance that he so carelessly ruined, the Way has decided that Cara should begin her training in life on L'eihr, Aelyx' home planet. They have been forced apart for the good of their people and it takes a toll on both of them. They may have finally figured out they were in love, but with Galaxies between them, how will their budding relationship survive.


The 2 remaining "exchange students", Aelyx and Syrine are on a tour of the United States to try and gain favor from the people, but with every fangirl, there is someone who wants them to go back to their own planet. They have multiple death threats and if they can't win over the people, the Way will cancel the peace treaty and Earth will crumble within a decade.


Cara is stuck on a planet full of aliens... well in this case, she is the alien. At least she has one friendly face; Elle, Aelyx' sister. Actually, she has 2, if you count the only other human on L'eihr, her brother. It seems like everyone else wants her gone. When crimes are commited and the clues point to her, the only way to prove her innocence may be to show that she can mind speak. No one can lie in mind speak... but Aelyx made her promise that no one could find out.


Both characters stories intertwine throughout the book and the chapters go back and forth from one character to the other. I found the story fast paced and often, each characters story would stop at a cliff hanger, so I would push myself to read the next 2 chapters to find out what happened. I really love a story that makes me want to read it faster.


This book is not about an alien apocalypse, so do not pick up Alienated thinking that that is what you are getting. This is a peaceful friendly Alien book, that just happens to have mystery, death, and a possible Alien war in the future. I guess there is something to look forward to.