Francie Driscoll is on her way to Roswell, New Mexico to attend her best roommate Serena’s wedding. She’s been down this road before and is planning on talking her out of it. Especially when she finds out Serena’s new beau is a UFO enthusiast, the wedding is at the UFO museum and there’s a UFO festival happening at the same time!

By the time Francie gets to Roswell, Serena needs so much help prepping for the wedding because her fiance is raving about a new UFO sighting in the area. Being the best roommate she is, Francie goes out to Serena’s car to pick up decorations but she runs into an alien! A tumbleweed tentacle creature that pins her to the car seat and just points ‘drive’. It’s a close encounter of the fourth kind – abduction!

Now Francie is stuck being a driver for an E.T. and picking up various characters along the way like Wade, a UFO abduction insurance selling conman, Lyle the UFO nut, Eula Mae the gambling granny and Joseph the owner of an RV (“Western wagon”). They get to know and care for the little alien they dubbed Indy and will protect him at all cost from the government and other extraterrestrials.

My favorite parts were when Indy was trying to communicate and I ADORE how they were talking in threes. The relationship Francie had with Indy and then Wade was so sweet. The first half of the book was a bit slow and repetitive, but around the halfway point it really took off and I finished in one sitting.

This was right up my alley, aliens, fun characters and shenanigans. I am the biggest fan of the TV show Roswell (‘99 version) so I couldn’t jump on reading this fast enough. It would be a lie to say I wasn’t planning my trip to Roswell for years now and this road trip novel just might make it happen this year!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC, this is my honest review.

Title: The Road to Roswell
Author: Connie Willis
Genre: Science fiction
Rating: 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️