A review by brucefarrar
Aliens on Vacation by Clete Barrett Smith, Christian Slade

3.0

David Elliott, “Scrub” to everyone who knows him, has been shipped off by his parents to rural Washington State to spend the summer with his eccentric grandmother. He’s not happy about being banished to the middle of nowhere where there’s no internet and no cell phone service; he’d rather be back at home in Tampa working on his basketball game. Worse than that, Grandma doesn’t seem to know the 1960s are over. She runs a place called The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast; the décor is vintage Sci-Fi; the food is all vegetarian. “The welcome mat was decorated with clusters of stars grouped together to spell out ALL ARE WELCOME WHO COME IN PEACE.” And the guests are really, really, really strange. There’s the tall skinny guy with gray skin that sniffs at mailboxes and the family that crawls down the hall on all fours. And soon Scrub will meet some that are even stranger!

There’s suspense, laughs, purple slime, and plenty of aluminum foil munching, as Scrub tries to keep the local Sheriff from discovering the true origin of Grandma’s guests.