Book: ‘Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror’ by Steve Alten – August 7th, 2018
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.07, 2018, under Books
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Since I saw a movie version of this film was coming up, I picked this book up a couple of months ago. I was surprised how much fun this book was to read. It appears long, but the story grips you into reading and not getting up.
My major complaint of the book is the idea that some prehistoric critter would hide out for so long and then get so active. It’s explained, but I can’t buy Alten’s reasoning. But the story has to have a Megladon. So it does.
I like how Alten develops the story from the perspective of the main character, Jonas Taylor, and then how many pieces are presented all pieced to a more and more exciting story.
The writing is surprisingly good for a first time author who apparently had written little before this. The dialogue is particularly good. There are also plenty of scientific descriptions that Alten handles makes very palpable for the lay reader.
The settings are extremely good and Alten puts the reader in the depths of the sea or on a dock in the ocean.
The best compliment to Alten is that he wrote a book very exciting and fun!
Bottom line: i recommend this book: 8 out of ten points.
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