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A review by verkisto
The Triangle by Mindy McGinnis, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Dan Koboldt
1.0
Serial Box gifted me a copy of the series. They didn't ask for a review in return, but here it is.
This is a story about the Bermuda Triangle. Had I known that to begin with, I might have passed on Serial Box's offer. Those kinds of stories usually come across as hokey and stupid, but hey, free fiction, and I thought this was going to be just a three-part story, not ten parts.
The Triangle has about as much subtlety and nuance as the last two seasons of Game of Thrones. It just wants to get things started enough to get the story started, and then rolls on through everything else without any grace. It's full of cliches, both in character and scene, and at one point a little girl holds "a stuffed rabbit by the ear, his bottom legs dragging in the dirt, one eye loose in the socket, held in place by a single string".
The authors seem to be trying for a serious tone to the series while also having an irreverence to the narrative. And the banter. Oh good Lord, the banter. It gets tiresome after a while. To their credit, they maintain a continuity of style, so it's not jarring to move from one author's section to the next.
The story is easy to read, and it's relatively short, but that's not enough to make me recommend it to other readers. It's not as bad as some of the Abyss books I've read, but that's only because it doesn't have the kind of rampant sexism and misogyny I've seen there.
tl;dr: I was already put off that it was a Bermuda Triangle story, but beyond that, it's just kinda stupid.
This is a story about the Bermuda Triangle. Had I known that to begin with, I might have passed on Serial Box's offer. Those kinds of stories usually come across as hokey and stupid, but hey, free fiction, and I thought this was going to be just a three-part story, not ten parts.
The Triangle has about as much subtlety and nuance as the last two seasons of Game of Thrones. It just wants to get things started enough to get the story started, and then rolls on through everything else without any grace. It's full of cliches, both in character and scene, and at one point a little girl holds "a stuffed rabbit by the ear, his bottom legs dragging in the dirt, one eye loose in the socket, held in place by a single string".
The authors seem to be trying for a serious tone to the series while also having an irreverence to the narrative. And the banter. Oh good Lord, the banter. It gets tiresome after a while. To their credit, they maintain a continuity of style, so it's not jarring to move from one author's section to the next.
The story is easy to read, and it's relatively short, but that's not enough to make me recommend it to other readers. It's not as bad as some of the Abyss books I've read, but that's only because it doesn't have the kind of rampant sexism and misogyny I've seen there.
tl;dr: I was already put off that it was a Bermuda Triangle story, but beyond that, it's just kinda stupid.