Not quite as good as the last Alien dramatisation by Audible, Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama, which I loved. This is set just before the arrival of marines in Aliens and while there's a certain delicious tingle you get as a listener knowing everyone is going to die save one little Newt, none of the characters were vivid enough for me to really enjoy their horrible deaths. Not only that, nobody stared dying until at least half way through. Come on producers, all we really wa...

Alien:River of Pain takes place right before Ripley is found floating in an old ship in space with her cat in a cryogenic unit. It is also before Newt is even born that the story starts. It is the story of the settlers, scientists, and marines that were there at the time. We know from the movie Newt is the only survivor, well, this is that story.Narration was a full cast and pieces from the movie. Excellent!

Another solid production and story in the Canonical Alien trilogy. This one starts out with the birth of my favorite, Newt, and gives us a look at the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—which has been colonized. Aliens is my favorite movie in the entire franchise so I love anything related to it. This one is close to my heart in the trilogy as it brings me Newt again, and it's pretty nihilistic since you definitely know how it's going to end. I need more!

This full cast audible drama was amazing! 5 stars for the audible and 3 stars for the overall story. We do learn some interesting things such as why Burke went along with the marines and all about Newts family. The voice actors were a good match to known characters and the MC marine sounded just like Ron Perlman. But no one can scream like Newt.(view spoiler)[I liked the surprise ending with a few survivors whose new mission is to take on the company. (hide spoiler)] Solid read to celebrate

Oh... My... Gods... PERFECT!I'm sitting here for 10 minutes now not knowing how to start this review. This book was a rollercoaster of emotions.At first I didn't even want to try it, as ignore is my default reaction when ad bombardment starts. Audible aggresively promoted the book everywhere and it was very hard to ignore. Which was pissing me off.But as somewhat of a fan of this universe, it would have been irresponsible of me not to give it a fair try. At least that's my rationalization for su...

5/10The previous audiobook was fun and had me wanting to listen more and more. This one forgot the fun element and was a bit of a bore. It's a lot of scene setting for an end result of lots of machine gun noises and people you don't care about dying. The production was top notch, can't fault that. The story was boring. I doubt I'll listen to any more unless they pop up as a freebie.

Interesting, but ultimately, I was not all the curious about what happened in the few minutes before the movie takes place. Just check the deleted scenes.

I really enjoyed Alien: Out of the Shadows. So much in fact that I bought the next two in the series,including this one. While I realize that I am "reading" them out of publication order, I opted for chronological order. I doubt that changed my opinion.This installment was really nothing more than a set up or prequel for the second in the Alien movie series although Mr. Golden tried very hard to make this a compelling story despite the fact that we already know the outcome if we saw Aliens.As a

Let's be real. Novels based on movie franchises (or tv, for that matter,) often feel like a nostalgia trip if not an outright money grab.So, you like the movie Aliens? The Cameron one? Well, good news! This one adds a lot to the original movie, adding a lot of backstory for the original colonists on Archeron where we get to see Newt and her parents and the ultimate destruction of the colony. We also get Ripley and a bit more of her story on Earth before all the S**t went down.Here's the real: I

River of Pain is the sort of a prequel to Aliens taking place on Hadley's Hope (the story takes place during the whole, Newts parents find the Alien eggs and before Ripley arrives with the Marines).Aliens being easily one of(if not the best) Sci Fi horror film of all time I was looking forward to this to fill in some of the events that happened and what the residents of Hadleys Hope went through before Ripley turned up. Obviously if you have seen Aliens you know what happens so its not going to

Entertaining and kinda heartbreaking.

I loved the first book in this trilogy, the second one though was trash and this third book is also pretty poor; it's a shame because it started off alright.It's a prequel to the brilliant second movie "Aliens" but the characters are poorly developed in this book and I don't think this one adds a single thing to the franchise. The story itself is not well written, it's shallow and has zero sense of suspense, fear or horror.I recommend to "Alien" completionists only.

This book is ridiculous. I'm a sucker for happy endings and always want the best for all the characters. So it's not a good sign when I read something and hope for everyone to die at the end. The team was just so stupid, I was rooting for the Aliens the whole time (who were a lot more intelligent and better organized by the way). The humans made so many dumb decisions. They kept saying things like "For crying out loud, it's some kind of snake, not the boogeyman" even after five Aliens were on th...

While the previous two novels in this new Alien series have been good this one is excellently done. Whilst not 100% new like the others this expands upon and fills in many gaps about what happened on LV426 prior to Aliens.The characters are good, the action gripping and well written and the story is very good despite knowing how it eventually turns out.For any fans of the books or the films this would definitely be recommended, its like Aliens : Special Editions - The prequel.

This is an Audible exclusive radio drama, with a full cast, sound effects and music. A bit different to your average audio book, and for me the quality of the voice acting and production were outstanding. I got totally immersed in the story even though I pretty much knew where it was going. (It's an Alien story and they all pretty much have the same pattern.)The drama fills in a part of the story not covered in the movies. It's about the fate of the colony on LV-426, then know as Acheron. The st...

Aliens is one of my top 5 all time favourite movies, and I always wanted to know the back story of Hadley's hope and this novel delivered that. However a very lacklustre ending spoiled what was a pretty decent attempt at a alien novel. The pace really picked up halfway though but just fell kind of flat....shame.

You know a three book series is a little light on for ideas when one has to skip forward hundreds of years and deal with a descendent of the first book's main character, only for the third book to zap back into the past to tell a tale only peripherally related to that same main character. Such is the major flaw with this final novel in the newest ALIEN trilogy sanctioned and promoted as canon by the good executives at 20th Century Fox.Christoper Golden is this time handed writing duties for Alie...

I can't get enough of Alien and Ripley. Movies or audiobooks. The Xenomorph is so terribly awesome.

This was a free Audible Original and right up my alley, so I hopped on it. I especially liked the last one I listened to Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon, so I thought I would enjoy this one just as much. I didn't. I felt that during the first half, not much happened, other than us meeting everyone, which seemed like a bit of a waste, since (view spoiler)[ almost all of them died anyway. (hide spoiler)]Also, when the action finally started, it was a bit difficult to fathom what was going...