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Meg
by Steve Alten
[b:Meg|105744|Meg (MEG, #1)|Steve Alten|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407870638s/105744.jpg|411660] is exactly the kind of bio-adventure novel I love to hate. "Could it happen?" is the kind of question that truly excites me, but when it's so ridiculous I think I can't stand it? Lord help me, I still have to see it through. If you watched even the first Sharknado on SyFy, you know *exactly* what I'm talking about.
Supposedly this book has been used by school teachers to inspire interest in science, but honestly, I can't see it. Sure, the theoretical science was carefully (and repetitively) laid out, but all in all the story and the cheese -- OMG SO MUCH CHEESE -- drown out any hopes of this novel impacting someone seriously. It's so far-fetched, swashbuckling and dramatic, it begs you to laugh, not learn, along with it. If you didn't look away in horror -- in a 'how did someone even write this' kind of way -- while our hero, Jonas, was using a fossilized meg tooth to cut his way through the innards of a live meg, you must have already turned your cheese filter up to 11.
Will I go on to book two? Nah. There is so much quality bio-adventure out there, I don't think I can respect myself in the morning if I go back for more of this testosterone-poisoned nonsense. [a:Michael C. Grumley|7141003|Michael C. Grumley|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1377571506p2/7141003.jpg] writes some seriously plausible bio-adventures that don't have me dizzy from rolling my eyes, and I know there are plenty more authors out there trying to keep the bio-adventure cheese-free for me.
Supposedly this book has been used by school teachers to inspire interest in science, but honestly, I can't see it. Sure, the theoretical science was carefully (and repetitively) laid out, but all in all the story and the cheese -- OMG SO MUCH CHEESE -- drown out any hopes of this novel impacting someone seriously. It's so far-fetched, swashbuckling and dramatic, it begs you to laugh, not learn, along with it. If you didn't look away in horror -- in a 'how did someone even write this' kind of way -- while our hero, Jonas, was using a fossilized meg tooth to cut his way through the innards of a live meg, you must have already turned your cheese filter up to 11.
Will I go on to book two? Nah. There is so much quality bio-adventure out there, I don't think I can respect myself in the morning if I go back for more of this testosterone-poisoned nonsense. [a:Michael C. Grumley|7141003|Michael C. Grumley|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1377571506p2/7141003.jpg] writes some seriously plausible bio-adventures that don't have me dizzy from rolling my eyes, and I know there are plenty more authors out there trying to keep the bio-adventure cheese-free for me.