2.5 After "Alienated" was kind of slow and felt like the introduction to a great story, I expected an explosion of events in "Invaded". Unfortunately the book was kind of dragging most of the time too. To me there wasn't really a plot and no climax either, the story was just dragging along. Bit on earth, bit on the planet. There have been several approached where I thought now it's going to be exciting but after a few pages it was just dropped and not mentioned anymore or everything was solved. Even the threats didn't feel like real threats. The characters are just there. They didn't emotionally grab me at all. Cara is changing her plans like other people are changing their underwear. Cara as well as Aelyx were pretty shallow with no real personality. The planet appears to be very boing too. I couldn't feel much difference to earth. I would have liked a bit of variety and some new ideas here. It's so disappointing because the idea is so amazing and unique. I think the 2 books had a lot more potential. I was close to giving this 2 stars but compared to other books with 2 stars, I wasn't that bad.