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The Trench (Meg #2)
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More like ZERO STARS.
This book was awful on so many levels. Spoilers for your protection...
1) A book about a killer giant shark really ought to have MORE killer giant shark that horrible, poorly written plots and subplots featuring Russian terrorists with bad accents.
2) This book comes across as little more than adolescent male rape fantasy:
a) The protagonist's wife (I cannot deign to call her a heroine) managed to get herself trapped underwater with the enemy and was stalked by a Russian thug hellbent on raping her. With every POV chapter change, she was cowering from him, weakly trying to protect her virtue, somehow managing to escape every time, and yet unable to put a stop to it -- either by her own devices or with the 'help' of the other all male counterparts. No one, not even the intended victim, ever acted like this was out of the ordinary.
b) And then the protagonist was constantly being approached (a laughable, weak choice of wording, I'll admit) by the villian's Russian female counterpart, doing her very best to get him to do the deed. I can't help but wonder if she had had a penis if she would have been more successful than the other guy.
3) Also (this could be an extension of #2, but it deserve a separate notation), as a final plot twist, the villain and his sexual Russian female counterpart turn out to be father and daughter -- again, with the male rape fantasy.
This book was blatant and disgusting. I expected it to be trash, to be like a beach read or an airport novel -- entertaining and over the top -- but it was just appalling, so much so that before I even finished listening to this second book in the series, I packed up and returned the third book, MEG: PRIMAL WATERS, which I had also borrowed.
A great big NO THANKS. I'm done with this series.
This book was awful on so many levels. Spoilers for your protection...
1) A book about a killer giant shark really ought to have MORE killer giant shark that horrible, poorly written plots and subplots featuring Russian terrorists with bad accents.
2) This book comes across as little more than adolescent male rape fantasy:
a) The protagonist's wife (I cannot deign to call her a heroine) managed to get herself trapped underwater with the enemy and was stalked by a Russian thug hellbent on raping her. With every POV chapter change, she was cowering from him, weakly trying to protect her virtue, somehow managing to escape every time, and yet unable to put a stop to it -- either by her own devices or with the 'help' of the other all male counterparts. No one, not even the intended victim, ever acted like this was out of the ordinary.
b) And then the protagonist was constantly being approached (a laughable, weak choice of wording, I'll admit) by the villian's Russian female counterpart, doing her very best to get him to do the deed. I can't help but wonder if she had had a penis if she would have been more successful than the other guy.
3) Also (this could be an extension of #2, but it deserve a separate notation), as a final plot twist, the villain and his sexual Russian female counterpart turn out to be father and daughter -- again, with the male rape fantasy.
This book was blatant and disgusting. I expected it to be trash, to be like a beach read or an airport novel -- entertaining and over the top -- but it was just appalling, so much so that before I even finished listening to this second book in the series, I packed up and returned the third book, MEG: PRIMAL WATERS, which I had also borrowed.
A great big NO THANKS. I'm done with this series.
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April 26, 2018
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April 26, 2018
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April 26, 2018
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April 30, 2018
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Even the megalodon is female and, of course, 'in heat.' :/