A crazy spiritual whirlwind is wreaking havoc around New Mexico, stripping humans to little more than muscle and bone in seconds. Sounds exciting and scary right? Unfortunately, the writing just doesn't match up to the premise in this book.Not as enjoyable or as streamlined as Goblins, the other X-Files book Charles L. Grant wrote. This is still enjoyable stuff, hence the rating, but the theme and overall quality of the mystery, the complete lack of tension throughout the story and some of the m...

The first X-Files novel I've read, and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a great read. I'd often thought about reading them, but wondered it they would ever meet the heights of the TV show.It drew me back to the years when I watched each episode for the first time, experiencing the twists and eerie occurrences, wondering what would happen next. I think Mulder and Scully are portrayed well in this novel, and taking them out of the big city was a great choice.In this novel, people are being killed

I gave Goblins a four-star rating because it surprised me. I'm rating Whirlwind three stars because it didn't.Grant's style works as well in Goblins as it does here, but I'm always uncomfortable reading horror novels about Native American magic written by white dudes. Had this been written by Stephen Graham Jones, I would take the use of the magic as an homage, with a ring of authenticity due to his heritage; here, it feels exploitative, and I can't trust what's an homage and what's just a white...

This is the first X-Files novel I have read. I didn't expect deathless prose, but neither did I expect the writing to be quite so poor nor the plot to be so mediocre. This would make for a very average episode were it to be filmed for television. When I read a novel based on a television series, I want to see a story that puts the characters in situations that we can't see on the tube, be it for budget considerations, mature story content, or whatever. I haven't read anything alse by Charles Gra...

This is an OK book. It brings back memories of the series when it just started, with episodes which dealt with specific cases each week. The story was handled well with buildup and resolution falling within the stipulated pages as per the contract for these type of movie/TV series based books. The writing was very easy to read and I feel if the author was given more freedom he would have been able to write a stronger, more complex book. That being said, for the genre, it's fine and something to

A quick and easy read. I liked that this book had a lot more Mulder/Scully scenes than the previous book. Though with the story centering on them I did feel that there was a lot of unexplored territory when it came to side characters. Annie for one, was a character I wanted to know more about. Fun book, nothing too deep or complicated. Kind of like a stand-alone monster-of-the-week episode on the show.

The depiction of Scully here did not ring true to me. In part because at one point she does an autopsy and gets all grossed out from it—which isn’t really a thing she does in the show. The plot did not make a lot of sense to me and seemed more random than anything. There were flashes of interesting material but they never really went anywhere. The characters did not make sense and the ending was just annoying. I reckon I’m going to be reading more of this guy’s books, since I love the X-files, b...

Ok Lets hope this one sticks as it seems Goodreads is have a few problems of late.Anyway the book - ok this one is really little better than the first one (Goblins) the book still feels little more than an episode they could not afford or didn't want to make - the characters seem to be different to that of the show - to the point they either feel unfamiliar or just WRONG. Either way the book if read as a standalone and not part of a bigger world is enjoyable enough but not only do you feel that

The 3 is because it is a campy X-files but as in the first installment, this probably lingers closer to a 2. The writing and dialog have not improved. Over all plot was rather cookie cutter x-files. But again as a lifelong X-files fan, I was still entertained. Its campy, and not the best writing.

Charles Grant has done a better job of portraying Mulder and Scully in this book then he did in Goblins. I was pleasantly surprised with the better characterization of the agents in this book. A lot of the beginning of the story focuses on the people in Arizona and the building of the story. But once the FBI agents arrive, the story starts rolling as more people end up dead. This book is a fairly quick read and quite enjoyable, if you like the television series. Even if you haven't seen the show...

Scully and Mulder are dispatched to Albuquerque, NM, because several bodies have shown up there. They’ve all been killed the same way, but there's no connections between victims that they can find. It’s up to Dana and Fox to figure out what’s going on. Upon arrival at the town where the victims lived, they find the sheriff to be uncooperative, as well as the Konochine Indians, who live on the mesa, one of which is an ex-con, who served time for murder and is a suspect. People continue to die, an...

Another piece of work by Grant to presumably pay the bills. This time a much better story than Goblins since Grant basically steals the story from his own Oxrun Station novel The Bloodwind. Move it to the Southwest US from Connecticut, call it Sangre Viento (get it?), and voil��, instant X-Files novel. Doesn't even require an original idea. Instead of snow and ice, we get sand and gravel. Grant seems to forget this is a new novel and in the final third of the book he forgets to even call it the

Whirlwind, really was a Whirlwind. I enjoy the fact that most of the X-Files books cases are solved within the last couple of pages, making you hold on until the very end. I've realized that I enjoy reading the X-Files by auidobook as it helps to set the scene and really bring together the plot in its entirety. I definitely enjoyed the story, it gave me the similar feeling of watching the original X-Files series. The partnership between Mulder and Scully is still evident, but there seems to be s...

Picked up from the library discard pile, this X-Files book takes a headlong dive into the balmy world of Mulder and Scully. The plot is lacklustre and the dyanmic alien hunting duo look very tired in their characterisations. With all said and done, it goes back into the library's discard pile.My Rating - 1/5

Being a major X-Files fan (and still am) back in the day when the show used to run, this was my first X-files book and it was enjoyable but I think the television would have done a better job with this type of story.

A quick time-waster for the undiscerning X-Files fan.If you are a fan of the X-Files, then I would recommend the Kevin J. Anderson novels or the Topps graphic novels rather than this. Mulder and Scully are as shallowly written as the rest of the characters in this poorly written novel. In fact, if it wasn't for the names, I think the two agents could have been anyone.The plot itself was also disappointing - the blurb made it sound a lot more exciting than it actually was. I felt no sympathy for

I've read this book almost 20 years ago and I used this book as my high-school literature project. The one I can remember that the translation is so aweful, it was hard for me to understand what the story about. But I kept reading it until the last page 'coz I was the massive fans of Mulder-Scully. Maybe I always am :D

It was good enough for me to give it three stars, but then I am generous. I find that sometimes stories where you have seen characters previously on tv don't live up to what you want. The story was interesting enough to finish it, and the writing was reasonable.

I've never read a book based on a TV show before, so I wasn't really sure what to expect here. Over all, it was a pretty good read, it was fairly exciting and the final twenty pages or so were really gripping. The main "mystery" of the plot would have been better if it hadn't been so obvious as early on as it was, (the title made it a total giveaway, as well) and I left this novel feeling like it needed one more really good twist. However, the author writes the both Mulder and Scully well, and i...

I'm a huge fan of the show, but this was my first novel read. I went in with super low expectations, and still came out underwhelmed by this. The writing isn't poor, persay, but the plot was about as boring as they get, and I had to really fight with myself to finish it.