Meg

A Novel of Deep Terror , #1

Hardcover, 195 pages

English language

Published June 21, 2022 by Forge Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-76424-9
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4 stars (1 review)

On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to …

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Quick exciting read.

4 stars

The pacing for this book was well done. I didn't have high hopes with how small the book was overall, but there was hardly anything in the book that would have been just fluff. This definitely hit the same feel as Jurassic Park for me with a shorter read time. Alten put enough effort into trying to make it plausible for the meg to have survived undetected for so long without making it too far fetched. I will be continuing with the series to see how it all goes.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Sharks
  • Carcharocles megalodon
  • Reality television programs
  • Deep diving
  • American Suspense fiction
  • Sea monsters
  • Paleontologists
  • Galleons
  • Horror tales
  • Horror fiction
  • Fiction, general