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    The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos

    By Kami Garcia

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    How did Fox Mulder become a believer? The X-Files Origins has the answers in this young adult, science-fiction origin story from the #1 New York Times-bestselling co-author of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia.

    Read this dark thriller to find out why millions of people became obsessed with The X-Files.

    In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder has bigger problems than applying for college. Five years ago, his younger sister disap­peared from their home and was never heard from again. Mulder blames himself, and his mother blames his father, who has retreated into his top-secret work for the State Depart­ment. In Fox’s senior year, his dad has moved him to Washington, DC—away from his friends on Martha’s Vineyard.

    While Mulder doesn’t mind the fresh start and not being known as “that kid with the missing sister,” he’s still obsessed with finding Samantha. So when a local boy turns up dead and another child is abducted, Mulder can’t stop himself from getting involved. Could there be a link to his sister’s case? As he uncovers the truth, Mulder and his friends find themselves on the trail of a serial killer.

    Sucked into a world where conspiracies, the occult, and madness overlap, Fox Mulder starts to believe.

    An Imprint Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9781250119575
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    Kami Garcia

    Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and international bestselling author and comic book writer, and an award-winning young adult novelist. Her best-known works include Beautiful Creatures, Unbreakable, and Teen Titans: Raven. Kami was a teacher and reading specialist for seventeen years before co-writing her first novel. Kami lives in Maryland with her family and their dogs, Spike and Oz.

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    • 4/5
      When I was growing up, my family had three different Family TV nights as time went on. The first one was “Lois and Clark”. The last one, up until the end of high school, was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. And the middle one, the one that I have the fondest memories of, was “The X-Files”. I started watching “The X-Files” with my Dad when I was in fifth grade. I was both terrified and enthralled by it, and I loved both Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigated the weird and unexplained happenings of potential supernatural malarky and/or government conspiracies with aliens. The revival last year was enough to keep me sated for a bit, though I was definitely left wanting more. And since it looked to be awhile before we were going to get more, imagine my delight when I found out that two books about teenaged Mulder and Scully were coming out. I started with the one about Mulder, “Agent of Chaos”, which was written by YA heavyweight Kami Garcia. I started with this one because while I’m probably more like Mulder, I have a deep, deep love for Scully, and want to savor her and save her for last. So off we go into teenage Mulder in 1979. It’s like “That 70s Show”, but far more insidious.To give a bit more description than the one above: Fox Mulder, a seventeen year old living in Washington D.C., is still feeling the pain of his sister Samantha’s abduction from a few years prior. His family has been shattered, and he is trying to adjust to his new life with his Dad, as his Mom is still back on Martha’s Vineyard. His best friend Phoebe is back on the island, but he’s made a new friend in Gimble, the nerdy son of an unbalanced former Air Force Major. When children in the area start disappearing, Mulder is reminded of Samantha’s abduction, and decides that he and his friends need to try and solve this case. This was so wonderfully Mulder, convinced so deeply of something and so entrenched in his belief of it, that he would throw everything he has into trying to figure it out. I also appreciated that this harkened back to the greatest tragedy of Mulder’s life, the disappearance of his younger sister. Though we all know now what did end up happening to her (and while this truth is touched upon in this book ever so briefly), the sadness and pain revived right away, and quite effectively (side note: anyone who thinks that “Closure” is a sappy episode of “The X-Files” can seriously bite me). It was a pretty obvious idea to make Mulder’s story about Samantha at it’s heart, but at the same time Garcia did it in such a delicate way that it was masterful and touching.We got to see some old favorites in this tale otuside of Mulder. While I kind of had a feeling that The Cigarette Smoking Man was going to make an appearance, because how could he not, I was very pleasantly surprised to see X, a ‘man in black’ and FBI operative from the series, play a fairly large role in this story as well. But along with these old characters, Garcia created some very fun new characters to act as foils for Mulder. The first is Gimble, Mulder’s best friend in D.C. who is a D & D playing Trekkie. Gimble served us some very appreciated, if not sometimes awkward, comic relief. But even he has a bit more tragedy to him, as his father is a mentally unbalanced man who believes in all kinds of conspiracy theories due to his former involvement with the Government. The Major, as he calls himself, was the weakest part for me in this book, as it seemed a bit too on the nose to have Mulder bond with a man who is both brilliant, and yet bogged down by lunacy and paranoia. Plus, it was just hard to watch The Major interact with Gimble, because MAN that has to be a hard way to grow up. Granted, the government conspiracy stuff was always my least favorite part about the show, so to have it kind of leak in here, while totally understandable, wasn’t really for me. But by far my favorite new character was Phoebe, Mulder’s best friend and sort of love interest. So sure, it’s clear that Mulder and Phoebe are not at all end game, given that his real true love is Scully. But I liked that Garcia took a risk and put a capable, smart, supportive yet no nonsense girl into this for Mulder to have as a foil. Because why couldn’t Mulder have two great loves of his life? Phoebe is the anchor that Mulder has always needed in his life, serving the Scully role and keeping him in check. Plus, her love of all things geek made her very relatable, and kind of refreshing. The girl’s first appearance has her hair done up in Princess Leia buns for God’s sake!Overall this was a fun origin story that I think did justice to Fox Mulder. I can’t say if hardcore “X-Files” fans will like it, but this pretty big fan quite enjoyed the journey it took me on. I really can’t wait to read the one about teenage Dana Scully now.
    • 4/5
      An interesting backstory to one of my favorite characters in tv history. One of my biggest qualms with the book is it bucks X Files lore.
    • 4/5
      Kami Garcia's The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos follows a seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder as he and two friends investigate a serial killer in the late 1970s. Garcia's writing resembles that of Ernest Cline or the show Stranger Things with her references to elements of pop culture from the period. The story itself is fast-paced and her young Mulder compelling, but the overall effect is somewhat jarring. Any attempt to create an origin story for a character as steeped in the mythology of modern popular culture as Fox Mulder is bound to come up short or feel forced. The inclusion of X and the Cigarette Smoking Man and references to the conspiracy feel forced at times, especially in contrast to Mulder's own drive to help those who disappeared under similar conditions as his sister (this element resembles "Paper Hearts," one of the best standalone episodes of the series). Fans of The X-Files will likely enjoy this novel, but those new to the franchise should begin with the television series for their origins.
    • 5/5
      Loved the X-Files and loved this book.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting origins story involving a 17 year old Fox Mulder and how he became interested in both aliens (sort of) and the FBI, involving the abduction of 8 year old children in a manner which echoed how he had lost his sister, Samantha.I was never satisfied with how the X-Files tv show resolved (?) the matter of Samantha's abduction. This story offers another alternative on her disappearance, albeit one that probably isn't the right one. It does, however, show that Mulder's obsession was certainly a long lived one and how he could take facts involving other crimes and turn them around to make it look like Samantha's case. This happens more than once in the tv show. I though that the depiction of Mulder here was true to his character as we see him on the show. I liked the side characters of Phoebe and Gimble and am wondering if they are taken from characters who guest starred in the show (I cannot remember for sure).I'm not sure if you would necessarily need to be a fan of the show to appreciate this book. I think it stands very well on its own as a teen crime/mystery story.