Most of it is past tense but at least one thing we're told was like damn. Speaking of, the dad is straight up abusive, we're told as such. There's a bit where he wants to cry but he can't with his brother in the room and he just thinks about how he wishes he wasn't born. It captures how someone do a poor job handling a lot of bad stuff going, rather well.
We already had him soften up a bit in the first but this goes further into him. So first, I really like the development for Duncan. This is good at first but like an addict, he goes back to the machine for more and this really creates complications. But ontop of that, this experiment in one class fries his brains, making him super smart. There are four new teachers this school year, and he must figure out which is the alien. One day while hiding in a dumpster (don't ask), Duncan finds a fake human hand that clues to the fact that aliens are still here even after Broxholm has left. After the ending of the last book, everyone is kind on edge as spoilers, Peter has vanished. With this going on, he tends to act up and such. His family is a mess with his brother being a bully to him and his parents being unattentive at best. He's still a bully but here we find more of his depth. This time we pull a Haunted Mask 2 as bully Duncan Doogal is our narrator. And it's also quite solid, better than the first in a lot of ways now that everything has been settled. Now we have the sequel where it's clear this was all a planned as a big saga. Previously on My Teacher is an Alien, it was a pretty solid read with some clever humor and commentary alongside mostly good characters, but it didn't explain everything and ended on a bit of a rushed note. I figured now was a good chance to read the next one, with plans to finish it off in the first half of the year. Well, a bit ago I started Bruce Coville's four part alien saga.
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