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A review by ferrisscottr
Meg: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten
3.0
I've been reading this series since the first book (Meg) and always enjoyed them for what they are - fun, airport, beach reads that appeal to my slight fear of the things in the water (I grew up in the 1970's so lived through Jaws).
This is the 5th book in the series and for a plot we've got Jonas Taylor back again trying to capture the "sisters", two offspring of Angel (Megalodon). We've got his son, David, reeling from having his girlfriend eaten by the Liopleurodon in the last book, so let's send him after the Lio again. But we've also got prehistoric whales and about a bazillion other things from the dinosaur era.
It was ok. Lots of action and monsters eating people but there was just too much going on. At one point we had three seperate story lines where three groups were all hunting different creatures. The meg was supposed to be a once in a lifetime anomoly and in this book it doesn't seem like you can go ten feet without tripping over a creature that should have died out 50 million years ago. You already have to suspend disbelief a little in these books but in this book he stretched that to unbelievable lengths.
The writing is still good but the plot had too much going on and too many creatures. I did enjoy it for what it was but it was just "ok".
This is the 5th book in the series and for a plot we've got Jonas Taylor back again trying to capture the "sisters", two offspring of Angel (Megalodon). We've got his son, David, reeling from having his girlfriend eaten by the Liopleurodon in the last book, so let's send him after the Lio again. But we've also got prehistoric whales and about a bazillion other things from the dinosaur era.
It was ok. Lots of action and monsters eating people but there was just too much going on. At one point we had three seperate story lines where three groups were all hunting different creatures. The meg was supposed to be a once in a lifetime anomoly and in this book it doesn't seem like you can go ten feet without tripping over a creature that should have died out 50 million years ago. You already have to suspend disbelief a little in these books but in this book he stretched that to unbelievable lengths.
The writing is still good but the plot had too much going on and too many creatures. I did enjoy it for what it was but it was just "ok".