Take a bit of Harry Potter - young kid sees how his parents are killed, survives and starts revenge-campaign -, MiB - bad aliens are on earth and we hunt them and one is killed from the inside out - and Douglas Adams - certain mammals are nice aliens who watch us - and mix it all with a enervating first-person-narrator who has tremendous powers that make every danger he gets into unbelievable and uninteresting. First of a series I certainely won't continue. Too bad there's no negative star possible.