Water Witch: "The Deepening" Part 2

Book 2 of Kelly Brewer's Deepening Series gives us Water Witch. And again, in full disclosure, I was asked to provide a review.

Just like in the first book, Kyle Supplantis continues his adventures fighting space aliens with rock music. And the aliens are not happy. Now that they know Kyle is the Water Witch, they try everything to stop Kyle before he destroys them. But -- destroy them, how? Kyle still doesn't know how to use his newfound powers.

As most middle books of trilogies go, this book spends a lot more time pushing plot than world-building. And in this case, I may like the first book a little better. Now that the band has been separated this way and that, there's also a lot less music, at least at first.

Kelly Brewer gives us a lot more view into the alien side, now that we know they exist, and not all aliens are bad. But that doesn't stop the aliens from using their melting space zombies. Starting with Neptune, moving to Uranus, and then Saturn, and so on, the aliens push their way forward to Earth.

Brewer's quirky writing also continues strongly -- kind of a broken English, because -- that's well -- how these people talk. I like it, though it comes across as funny and different to me. I think it's intentional -- an attempt of quirky humor mixed with some action and horror elements.

At one place near the beginning, there was even a zombie-nado. Yeah -- I was on the floor laughing up a storm. Is there anything tornadoes can't do? But then again, later zombie scenes seem quite dire, and I have to keep reminding myself that it's just a book, and we're not really losing a war against the aliens.

The ending seemed to come quite sudden to me -- almost like stopping everything as something big happens, but then again, surprises are always like that. It was a nice twist. Of course -- like the usual middle book, it leaves us hanging. I suppose I'll have to pick up the final book as well.

So, give it a try. If you're looking for something completely different -- kind of funny, but also somewhat satisfying, check out these books. You can start with "First Contact" and continue with this book.