Scully = Life. I mean she literally can’t die, lol. But this book was great. While I hated certain plot points, they were of no fault of the author. I enjoyed the ride the author took us on, with lots of throwbacks and all the feels. Without spoilers, I want to see more, and hope we get a book series out of this.

Oh, how to write this review without giving too much away!? The X-Files has been my favorite show since 1994, so I was excited & a bit nervous when I heard we were getting a book that picks up where the show ended in 2018.

I assume most who will read Perihelion are already familiar with the show, but even if you’re not, the author gives enough backstory for the reader to understand the basic history of the characters & world of The X-Files. Both Mulder & Scully have been through A LOT and the book does a good job of conveying that, a testament to Claudia Grey being a longtime fan herself. We pick up with them just a few months after the series finale, where the big reveal was that Scully is pregnant. It’s also revealed in the finale season that their teenage son William was not truly theirs, but an “experiment” by their longtime adversary the Cigarette Smoking Man. What a creep, and I was not a fan of that decision by the showrunners. But this isn’t a review of season 11, I digress!

Minor spoilers ahead!

I felt cautiously optimistic at the start: Mulder & Scully are together and the baby is still on the way. But things quickly get characteristically strange because this is The X-Files after all! Neither are working for the FBI when the story begins, but they are soon called back to investigate two seemingly unconnected cases with that “certain paranormal bouquet” Muder can’t resist. They also find that the old basement office is filled with boxes of more recent unexplainable, unsolved cases. And since I don’t want to give away any major plot twists, I will stop the spoilers here.

Some of the X-File elements feel derivative of things that have been done already, but that’s true of almost all new media. We just get variations on existing themes here in the 21st century. I wasn’t sure how the story would end, and it took a lot of willpower not to peek at the last few pages, but I did enjoy Perihelion. It ended in a better place than the last television episode, in my opinion. Noromos beware, and shippers rejoice, it has a lot of MSR moments. And in true X-Files fashion, there are still a lot of questions at the end. But that could be addressed in the next season, um, I mean book.

Thank you to Netgalley & Hyperion Avenue for sending me an advance copy.

Mulder and Scully are back but no longer in the FBI at least not until the FBI needs them to be agents again. They are brought on board to track down a two serial killers, one that disappears in a cloud of smoke, the other is praying on pregnant women, which Scully is in that group now. Can the two agents get the guys before they kill to many more, or even Scully herself?
As a lover of the TV show this was a must read, and it did not disappoint. I really like this book a lot it has everything the TV show had and more. I hope these books keep coming until the truth is finally learned by all, because the truth is out there.

I loved The X-Files: Perihelion. As a huge fan of this Science Fiction TV series I can truly say this book was amazing. A great story about Mulder and Scully, a serial killer and a clandestine organization. I really enjoyed these characters, Robin Vane was a favorite along with the mysterious retreat. A great ending with a twist. Looking forward to reading more of this Authors work.
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I give The X-Files: Perihelion 5 stars for its interesting story.
I would recommend this book to Science Fiction Fans.

When The X-Files originally aired in the Fall of 1993, I was 12 years old. My grandfather was living with us at the time, and he was a big believer in all things alien. I remember in vivid detail sitting with my grandfather and siblings to watch this new show on Fox. After the first episode ended, I knew I had discovered my new favorite show. I became a die-hard fan. Every Friday night, like clock-work, I was in my living room watching the latest episode. The X-Files saw me through a lot of life! I’ve read every X-File novel, too. They were always so fun. While perusing NetGalley the other day, I saw that Claudia Gray is releasing a new X-File novel in July. To say I was overjoyed would be an understatement. I immediately requested a copy and Hyperion Avenue graciously granted my request. Of course, I had to read this book immediately. LOL!

The X-Files: Perihelion is an excellent story. Fans of The X-Files will be delighted by this book. I, personally, was hooked from page one and never wanted to stop reading. It is a beautiful mix of nostalgia and new. This story picks up where season 11 ended. Scully is shockingly pregnant in her 50s, a serial killer is hunting pregnant women, unexplained phenomena is happening all over the world, there is a new mysterious cabal on the rise, and the FBI want Mulder and Scully back. I absolutely loved everything about this story — Scully and Mulder’s internal musings, the constant action, the mystery, the strange and unusual, and the conspiracy. I loved remembering all the previous stories and rehashing characters from the past — it was so much fun! I also really enjoyed the new mystery. This story kept me up way past my bedtime several nights this past week as I furiously turned pages attempting to figure out whodunit. The mystery is multifaceted, creepy, and suspenseful. For me, the absolute best part of this novel is the continued relationship between Scully and Mulder. I loved revisiting their complex dance between deep friendship, romance, and trust. I also got a kick out of watching Scully and Mulder maneuver through all the unique and ambivalent feelings and emotions associated with impending parenthood in their fifties. All in all, this story has everything a true X-File fan will love.

Claudia Gray is a fantastic storyteller. She did an outstanding job with this novel, and I hope she writes many more X-File stories in the future. If you are a Sci-Fi and/or X-File fan, then I highly recommend this story. You will not want to miss it!

I received a review copy of this novel in eBook form from the publisher, Hyperion Avenue, via NetGalley. In no way has this influenced my review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Thank you, Netgalley, for giving me the opportunity to read this book early.

This book picks up where the finale of The X Files left off. Scully announces her pregnancy and The X Files future hangs in the balance. This book was so freaking good! I felt it captured the show and the characters so well. I could hear what the actors would sound like speaking the words. The novel essentially follows two cases that appear to be linked while Mulder and Scully navigate what their relationship is and their fears about the baby she is carrying and addressing their feelings and the loss of William. I think the novel was well written and paced and it was so much fun being back with Mulder and Scully. I hope that the author writes more X Files novels so we can see where she plans on taking the characters and the mythos of the show.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVED The X-Files: Perihelion by Claudia Gray!!! Such a great story. I had so much fun reading up on Mulder and Scully and seeing where their story was headed next. I am loving the storylines being set up and can't wait to read more - if there are more books on the horizon that is (I'm not sure). All in all, Gray has written a terrific followup to the series ending and captured the essence of the characters and the show perfectly. I would happily recommend this to fans of the show - you are going to LOVE this book!

I loved watching the X-Files and this book picks up right after the finale of the eleventh season. Scully and Mulder are tasked with finding a serial murderer who's targeting pregnant women. This case is especially important because Scully is pregnant. The FBI also asks them to look into an odd case of a man who disappears into a cloud of smoke after committing his crimes. There are many mentions to other X-Files cases and characters. This book was also written with the X-Files creator Chris Carter's help.

The X-Files: Perihelion is a book scheduled for release in July 2024. written by Claudia Gray with Chris Carter's approval. It is published by Hyperion Avenue. I want to thank the author and publisher for an advanced digital copy of the book for review
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For my actual review please see the link below.

A long time X-Files fan here. Happy to report, The X-Files: Perihelion does not disappoint! The story picks up shortly after the 2018 finale. Without spoiling too much, I loved many of the choices Claudia Gray made with characters and plot. Enjoyed this more than the 2018 finale. I honestly didn’t want it to end

I received an ARC from Netgalley for my unbiased review.

It's a slow starter. I was waiting to jump in and it was a bit of a wade, and that's just about the worst thing I can say about it. It's THAT good.
(Spoilers ahead: Mulder and Scully are gradually finding their ways back to each other, with Scully's new pregnancy, when the FBI calls again. Spoilers done) The X-Files are reopened and there's a bit of a backlog. From that point on our intrepid heros are facing serial killers, disappearing assassins and the remains of the Syndicate.
I highly recommend for nostalgia points, if nothing else, but it's great to see in the days of smartphones and Alexa that the truth is still out there.

Claudia Gray has fashioned an enjoyable return to X-Files form with a story that leads with poise from the years of lore that have been part of this series. Reading this book was like a warm reunion — complete with creepy X-Files moments.

If you are a true X-files fan, this book needs to be on your reading list! As a true-fan from day of the X-files, reading this book was bringing me back to two of my favorite characters. This author knows her X-files and the she captured the nuances of the relationship between these beloved characters. I read this book in about a day because I could not put it down. I hope she has plans for what happens next because I am ready to know!

It's been six years since the most recent season of The X-Files aired, and to say it ended with a whimper rather than a bang would be a bit of an understatement. Ever since, the series has laid dormant. Every so often, rumors swirl of some kind of a reboot, but nothing's materialized yet. But now, Claudia Gray invites readers back into the world of The X-Files with The X-Files: Perihelion, a tense, thrilling mystery that’s sure to entice even the most cynical X-Files fan. Picking up where the most recent season ended, The X-Files: Perihelion continues Mulder and Scully's quest for the truth as they grapple with the realities of their reblossoming relationship and unexpected pregnancy. Put simply, Perihelion makes an excellent case for continuing The X-Files as a series of novels rather than an ongoing television series.

When the FBI asks Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to look into a serial killer targeting pregnant women and another who’s picking off former members of the shadowy Syndicate, their investigation leads them a bit too close to home. For the closer they get to their suspects, the more danger they face. With both killers seeming to possess unusual powers, Mulder and Scully have their work cut out for them. But something feels off about these cases. Some force seems to be connecting them. Somewhere in the shadows, a mysterious cabal lies in wait with a dastardly plan just begging to be enacted. Can Mulder and Scully bring an end to these murders and unravel this strange conspiracy? Or is life on Earth about to change forever? Claudia Gray's The X-Files: Perihelion picks up the pieces from the show's latest season and weaves them into a satisfying, emotionally charged tapestry.

The novel reads like the literary equivalent of an early-series “myth-arc” episode, perfectly balancing Mulder and Scully’s ongoing character arcs with the larger concerns of the series’ mythology. It’s a well-paced, compulsive page-turner that packs a lot of story into a relatively short book. Take the shape of a standard two-part X-Files episode and transform it into prose, and you’ve got a pretty good idea of what to expect from this book. And like those two-parters of old, The X-Files: Perihelion doesn’t really bring any of its larger storylines to a full conclusion. Instead, it mostly sets up avenues that future novels could go down should this outing prove successful. That's not inherently a problem, to be fair. After all, it does feel like Perihelion is a pilot for an ongoing series of X-Files novels. But it's something to be aware of.

Above all else, Perihelion offers a return to form for The X-Files - a good “case of the week” story that gives Mulder and Scully a lot of room to grow emotionally with a sprinkling of the series’ larger mythology mixed in. Going into any of the specifics of Perihelion's plot would do the entire story a great disservice, but let's just say that it feels like the opening story of a theoretical twelfth season. And that approach comes with exactly the strengths and weaknesses you'd imagine.

On the plus side, readers get to revisit Mulder and Scully and see how they're coping with their newly rekindled relationship and newfound pregnancy. And Gray mines that for everything it's worth, making their relationship the real underpinning of the entire novel. At heart, it's a story about Mulder and Scully reconnecting with each other, dealing with their shared trauma, and beginning the rest of their lives. Gray perfectly captures their voices, breathing new life into these characters and pushing them down exciting new pathways.

On the flip side, however, there's the actual meat and potatoes of the plot; the latest attempt to turn The X-Files' long-convoluted mythology into some kind of a coherent narrative. Yet, Gray manages to pull it off about as well as you could expect. Those who hated some of the reveals in the show’s eleventh season probably won’t be won over here. Gray doesn’t retcon or directly undo any of those more controversial elements, but she does manage to reshape them into something far more palatable. And on the horizon rests the promise of even more intriguing storylines. A future that, hopefully, will come to pass.

At the end of the day, Claudia Gray's The X-Files: Perihelion reopens the X-Files with a thrilling, emotionally charged novel that's sure to please even the most skeptical of fans. With an action-packed plot that combines the best elements of the show's mythology with a healthy dose of character development for Mulder and Scully, Perihelion makes an excellent case for the X-Files continuing as an ongoing series of novels. It's not a total homerun; the ending's pretty unresolved and the plot itself feels a bit derivative. But Gray so perfectly captures the essence of Mulder and Scully's relationship that it's hard to imagine someone walking away from this book without even the hint of a smile on their face. There's just so much quintessential X-Files goodness to love here. And Gray's absolute love of the series is so infectious that it's easy to lose yourself in the story she crafts.

Mulder and Scully are back in a new story that follows the final season of The X-Files show. A killer in the Washington, D.C., area is targeting pregnant women, brutally slaying them and leaving their bodies dissected, while lights and electronics at the murder scenes are blown out as if some major electrical discharge has occurred. Dana Scully is herself surprisingly pregnant, and she and Mulder have moved into a townhouse in the District. Meanwhile, though the Syndicate is no more, a new cabal has risen in its place known as the Inheritors. The group is using an assassin with special abilities to take out former Syndicate members, leaving behind corpses dead by a single knife or gunshot wound, and witnesses seeing nothing but a bit of smoke behind. With the body toll rising on these two cases, the FBI turns to Mulder and Scully, offering them reinstatement and reopening the X-Files. A they prepare for a child in their lives, the pair must decide whom they can trust as they go back to investigating the types of cases that endangered them and those around them so many times before, because Scully may just be the target of not one, but two killers.
This novel certainly was all encompassing of everything that happened during the final two seasons of The X-Files.

Mulder and Scully are back in a new story that follows the final season of The X-Files show. A killer in the Washington, D.C., area is targeting pregnant women, brutally slaying them and leaving their bodies dissected, while lights and electronics at the murder scenes are blown out as if some major electrical discharge has occurred. Dana Scully is herself surprisingly pregnant, and she and Mulder have moved into a townhouse in the District. Meanwhile, though the Syndicate is no more, a new cabal has risen in its place known as the Inheritors. The group is using an assassin with special abilities to take out former Syndicate members, leaving behind corpses dead by a single knife or gunshot wound, and witnesses seeing nothing but a bit of smoke behind. With the body toll rising on these two cases, the FBI turns to Mulder and Scully, offering them reinstatement and reopening the X-Files. A they prepare for a child in their lives, the pair must decide whom they can trust as they go back to investigating the types of cases that endangered them and those around them so many times before, because Scully may just be the target of not one, but two killers.
This novel certainly was all encompassing of everything that happened during the final two seasons of The X-Files. It has everything, from picks up with Mulder and Scully still not completely over the loss of William, a new clandestine faction with a world-changing agenda, the human/alien hybridization plans, Skinner remaining in a coma and even a new "Deep Throat"/"Mr. X" to help steer Mulder along his inquiries. The story encapsulated everything long-time fans of the show have come to expect from such a tale, though I did find the one major aspect towards the end felt way too comic book-y and less X-File-y, and should have been reined in more. But the novel made its mark as a possible beginning to a continued life of The X-Files in book form. 4.5/5*

Thank you Claudia Grey, Hyperion Avenue and Netgalley for this free ARC in exchange for a review.

This was an exciting novel worthy of the X-Files. It was nice to see what happens after the series and how things are between Mulder and Skully now. We're still left with questions though, and I hope they're answered in more novels.

It was a wonderful book!
I loved being able to return the the x-files world and the book had twits and things ou never seen coming!