Freakin Fridays!
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I am fascinated by sharks. All kinds of sharks. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s because of the danger they present along with their beauty.
Yes, sharks are beautiful.
Imagine a great white, weighing in at 2000 lbs. Now image that blown up to 46 – 59 feet long with 7 inch teeth and a mouth you can stand upright in!
That’s your megalodon, the prehistoric cousin of the great white shark.
The popular theory is their diet consisted mainly of whales. Just imagine a shark that big. We wouldn’t be much of an appetizer.
When Commander Jonas Taylor is ordered to make one more dive down into the 36,000 foot Challenger Deep, he knows he shouldn’t be piloting. He’s exhausted, shaky and his motor functions are impaired.
Left with no choice, he dives deep into the abyss.
What he doesn’t know is someone else is down there. They know the megalodons exist and want to bring them up to prove it.
Jonas and his crew dive smack dab into it when they encounter a raging megalodon, hell-bent on taking out it’s annoying competition.
The luminescent white image rushes towards them, growing to tremendous size, with a mouth that could swallow their mini sub whole. Jonas has one chance to make the right decision. The wrong one will land them right in the massive sharks jaws.
Having read the other four books in the Meg series, I was thrilled to see this short prequel. It gives you Jonas’s backstory about his situation at the beginning of the first book. You’ll read how he ended up with a tarnished reputation and ruined career.
You’ll also be meeting Megalodon up close.
I swear, I could almost feel the fear when these men first spotted the meg. I wouldn’t have wanted to be in that sub, no way!
I’ve heard a rumor there may be a movie based on the Meg series, maybe this year. I’ll be first in line.
If you haven’t read the Meg books, this is a great introduction.
For those of you who have, this is an excellent addition to feed your Meg fix.
4 Stars
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To read more about the Meg Series and Steve Alten go HERE.
hey – so, does Steve ever say what the megs survive on at 36K down? I know the whale-diet concept, but of course whales, even deep-diving sperm whales, spend almost all of their time higher in the water column. and, of course, there’s nothing else of size/quantity at abyssal depths that would be sufficient to power a 50-foot shark (and w/ sperms already filling the niche of giant squid-noshers, even squids would be too few & far between)….plus, to continue my nit-pickery, if the megs are rising to take whales in shallower water on a regular basis, they’d very probably have been spotted and documented, removing the mystery aspect. so, wondering how the author solved this key element of his central thesis: they’re there and surviving nicely on vast amounts of some sort of animal protein), but nobody ever sees ’em.(or does he just go with: the oceans are big and deep and so… hey look, sasquatch!)
Yes he does. Not in this prequel but in the other books you’ll learn how and what they feed on. They also aren’t the only prehistoric creatures down there!
As for the shallower water, you’ll have to read the books! LOL He does make it plausible and tries to use what could really be true.
Of course this is fiction and some license has to be taken. It does make you wonder and wish.
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I just scanned your post because I haven’t read this yet. I will be back. LOL
I’m curious to read what you think! I hope when they do the movie it’s not a cheesy CG film. These books deserve some serious imagery!
I’d like to think they do exist. The Cracken wasn’t that far fetched after all. 🙂
Anna from Shout with Emaginette
Me too! Just glad the Kracken wasn’t like the ones in the movies!
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