Friday, September 14, 2018

The X Files Origins: Devil's Advocate:

The X Files Origins: Devil's Advocate by: Jonathan Maberry
Fiction: Pop Culture, Mystery, YA, 352 pages
Physical Book Count:17
Book Count:47

This book is about Dana Scully as a high school student.  Students are dying in mysterious car crashes in the area at an unnatural rate.  Dana keeps having nightmares about an angel/devil that is behind the death of the teens.  Then she has a vision of the latest dead teen being murdered with the wounds of the Crucifixion.  She makes friends with a boy, Ethan, who happens to live with his police detective uncle that also finds the number of teens dying to be odd.  Together with the help of him providing the facts of the case and the people at a new aged shop helping with her using her physic abilities she gets closer and closer to finding out what the murderers were about and who might be doing it.   Of course, we find out that she is secretly part of a test from the "men in black" who are watching and increasing her abilities.   Unlike the book on Fox Mulder, where the story fits well with his story, most of this book is very unlike Dana from the start of the X-Files with only the issue of her doubt being a constant.  The story does end with her somewhat being the logical, not supernatural believing person of the show, and it also explains how she picked her earlier career in medicine, but most of the story is a Dana Scully unlike the show's.  

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