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When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.

Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree. Before long, he has acquired a charming con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for old Westerns, and a UFO-chasing nutjob who is thoroughly convinced the alien intends to probe them and/or take over the planet.

But the more Francie gets to know the alien, the more convinced she becomes that he’s not an invader. That he’s in trouble and she has to help him. Only she doesn’t know how—or even what the trouble is.

Part alien-abduction adventure, part road trip saga, part romantic comedy, The Road to Roswell is packed full of Men in Black, Elvis impersonators, tourist traps, rattlesnakes, chemtrails, and Close Encounters of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth kind. Can Francie, stuck in a neon green bridesmaid’s dress, save the world—and still make it back for the wedding?

I’m not sure what made me pick up a book about Roswell, other than it didn’t look too serious, and I was in the mood for something light and easy to read.

I am SO glad I borrowed this book!

The cast is delightful, including the alien, and the audiobook narrator did an excellent job of giving each character personality. There’s a bit of adventure, plenty of suspense, lots of science fiction, a smidge of romance, and only a couple of swear words–I love that it didn’t include any explicit details or language. A few chapters could have been a little shorter/moved a little faster, but overall it was a fun, stayed-up-too-late reading book.

It has a touch of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in it and a bit of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, so if you like those books you might want to try this one.

Rated PG.

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For more science-fiction reads, try:

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams