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A review by vermidian
Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler
2.0
I am eternally baffled at how bad the science in these books can be. It really left me with a bad taste in my mouth when I realized that the biological weapons the story surrounds would have been non-functional for years when Bass indicated they needed an oxygen-rich environment - which a metal canister sitting at the bottom of a pond for a couple of decades would not be capable of.
Additionally, Cussler still seems to see women as being as loose as his imagination would like them to be. There was one scene where a character literally gets swapped to another man against her will and despite being upset at being forced to take another man to bed, she’s suddenly okay with it in the next scene? Cussler, you had to have been smoking something when you wrote this. Real women do not behave like you write them - in your early books at least.
I don’t recommend this one. I’ve been reading them in order as much as I can, but so far I haven’t read one which truly satisfied me as a reader because the science behind the stories and the way he treats minority groups, such as women or people of color, is infuriatingly backward.
Additionally, Cussler still seems to see women as being as loose as his imagination would like them to be. There was one scene where a character literally gets swapped to another man against her will and despite being upset at being forced to take another man to bed, she’s suddenly okay with it in the next scene? Cussler, you had to have been smoking something when you wrote this. Real women do not behave like you write them - in your early books at least.
I don’t recommend this one. I’ve been reading them in order as much as I can, but so far I haven’t read one which truly satisfied me as a reader because the science behind the stories and the way he treats minority groups, such as women or people of color, is infuriatingly backward.