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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Jaws meets Jurassic Park. Towards the end it was a bit too much but still a great adventure. It's as if Clive Cussler wrote Sharknado.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
informative
tense
fast-paced
[3.5/5]
Very different from the entertaining Statham led movie adaptation, I’d argue even to the point where it feels like the movie’s sequel is actually taking bites out of this first book. Despite the book having more grandiose battles and a higher kill count, I do think I prefer the movie, as I was not really able to feel the tension, gargantuan size, and absolute fear inducing existence of this “apex” predator through the pages, as one can from the visual medium.
Very different from the entertaining Statham led movie adaptation, I’d argue even to the point where it feels like the movie’s sequel is actually taking bites out of this first book. Despite the book having more grandiose battles and a higher kill count, I do think I prefer the movie, as I was not really able to feel the tension, gargantuan size, and absolute fear inducing existence of this “apex” predator through the pages, as one can from the visual medium.
adventurous
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The book blurb sounded quite interesting and the first few chapters where not too bad. The it went downhill as fast as you can say deep water trench.
What I expected to be a pre-historic shark horror-thriller turned out to be a soap opera filled with thoroughly unlikable people mostly spending their time promoting their own careers, cheating, bad mouthing, scheming, backstabbing and any other unpleasant activity you can think of.
The story started as a semi-plausible story where Megalodons might still exist in deep water trenches but then became less and less plausible the further into the book I came and the Homo Sapiens at their worst took over the scene. Sure the book is liberally sprinkled with more or less gory appearances of the Megalodon but towards the end of the book I was pretty much only hoping that she would eat some of the assholes in the book and be done with it.
When reading the book I thought that this story would be just the kind of poor story that Syfy channel would slap some equally poor special effects on and then release with a silly title like UltraMegaDinoShark or something. It was not until I was writing this review that I took a closer look at the cover photo, saw the text under the title and realized that someone at Warner Bros actually seem to have decided to make a movie out of it. When I looked it up at IMDb I was rather shocked to see that they seem to have Jason Statham cast in the lead role.
Well, I hope the special effects will be good at least because the story is fairly abysmal.
The book is not bad enough to get a single star rating but it is indeed quite close. Needless to say I will not continue to read this series (and I will wait for the reviews of the movie before I fork out any money for that one).
What I expected to be a pre-historic shark horror-thriller turned out to be a soap opera filled with thoroughly unlikable people mostly spending their time promoting their own careers, cheating, bad mouthing, scheming, backstabbing and any other unpleasant activity you can think of.
The story started as a semi-plausible story where Megalodons might still exist in deep water trenches but then became less and less plausible the further into the book I came and the Homo Sapiens at their worst took over the scene. Sure the book is liberally sprinkled with more or less gory appearances of the Megalodon but towards the end of the book I was pretty much only hoping that she would eat some of the assholes in the book and be done with it.
When reading the book I thought that this story would be just the kind of poor story that Syfy channel would slap some equally poor special effects on and then release with a silly title like UltraMegaDinoShark or something. It was not until I was writing this review that I took a closer look at the cover photo, saw the text under the title and realized that someone at Warner Bros actually seem to have decided to make a movie out of it. When I looked it up at IMDb I was rather shocked to see that they seem to have Jason Statham cast in the lead role.
Well, I hope the special effects will be good at least because the story is fairly abysmal.
The book is not bad enough to get a single star rating but it is indeed quite close. Needless to say I will not continue to read this series (and I will wait for the reviews of the movie before I fork out any money for that one).