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A review by marziesreads
The Triangle by Mindy McGinnis, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Dan Koboldt
3.0
2.5 to 3 Stars (It wasn't the right series for me, but it might be for you...)
The Triangle is a Serial Box production centering on disappearances in the famed Bermuda Triangle. After a series of storms, disappearances start occurring in the region but once an entire warship, USS Wasp, goes missing the US government puts together a covert task force to investigate what's going on. And that was part of my problem with the structure of this story- the idea of a covert team seemed implausible when you're talking about a response when an entire naval warship is missing, let alone all the airplanes that have been lost. Where is the Federal Aviation Administration? The Department of Defense Investigative Services? Coast Guard Investigative Services? Instead we get a single National Transportation Safety Board investigator, a retired Navy vice admiral, a data recovery specialist, a conspiracy theorist writer, and they are joined, for some reason, by a police inspector from Antigua. Yep, great team to solve the mystery of a missing warship that in real life would have cost well over a billion US dollars to build.
The writing style of this serial felt choppier than what I've seen with prior co-written Serial Box productions I've read and enjoyed (most recently The Vela but also Fisher of Bones, Bookburners, and The Witch Who Came in from the Cold.) Let me say, however, that I am still quite sold on Serial Box as a concept. Once again, for those new to the platform, the stories are released in episode format and you can both read and listen to the productions, which is wonderful for someone who has to switch back and forth between written and audio reading.
I received an Advanced Review Copy of this series from Serial Box in exchange for an honest review.
The Triangle is a Serial Box production centering on disappearances in the famed Bermuda Triangle. After a series of storms, disappearances start occurring in the region but once an entire warship, USS Wasp, goes missing the US government puts together a covert task force to investigate what's going on. And that was part of my problem with the structure of this story- the idea of a covert team seemed implausible when you're talking about a response when an entire naval warship is missing, let alone all the airplanes that have been lost. Where is the Federal Aviation Administration? The Department of Defense Investigative Services? Coast Guard Investigative Services? Instead we get a single National Transportation Safety Board investigator, a retired Navy vice admiral, a data recovery specialist, a conspiracy theorist writer, and they are joined, for some reason, by a police inspector from Antigua. Yep, great team to solve the mystery of a missing warship that in real life would have cost well over a billion US dollars to build.
The writing style of this serial felt choppier than what I've seen with prior co-written Serial Box productions I've read and enjoyed (most recently The Vela but also Fisher of Bones, Bookburners, and The Witch Who Came in from the Cold.) Let me say, however, that I am still quite sold on Serial Box as a concept. Once again, for those new to the platform, the stories are released in episode format and you can both read and listen to the productions, which is wonderful for someone who has to switch back and forth between written and audio reading.
I received an Advanced Review Copy of this series from Serial Box in exchange for an honest review.