A review by throatsprockets
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham

4.0

Just a hair’s breadth from being a stone classic, this apocalyptic science fiction novel often plays like English versions of the lead characters from The Thin Man finding themselves in a Call of Cthulhu/Mountains of Madness kind of scenario. Seventy years on, it still seems original and even plausible to a point. I bought both the nature of the alien invasion and the human response, as well as the limitations of both. The end is a bit abrupt but this is compelling stuff. I need to fill the rest of my John Wyndham gaps.