This is a Tag Team Event hosted by myself and Sherry.
It’s always a pleasure to share more books by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. I’ve read many of her books and plan to read everything she writes.
For today, I’m sharing my review of the latest book from Kathryn’s Dinosaur Lake Series.
After reading my review, head on over to Sherry’s blog at fundinmental to check out her review and enter another giveaway!
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Survivors
Dinosaur Lake #5
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Genre: Horror / Suspense
My Review
It’s been a long time since the dinosaurs ran amok. Only an occasional sighting, and they’re dispatched quickly. But when the mysterious little dinosaur shows up, retired Chief Park Ranger, Henry Shore , knows something is happening again. So he joins forces to face another deadly threat.
Once again, Kathryn drops you into the action quickly as the team hunts for a dinosaur. The hunt doesn’t last long as the dinosaur finds them. Henry is injured and laid up, hoping this is the last of them. But then the little dinosaur, a mystery, as it seems to show up to warn them rather to cause harm, returns, more frantic than ever. And I knew, as did Henry, that the fight wasn’t over.
I was very curious about the little dinosaur before. Just what was he? Where did he come from? What was his purpose? I got those answers and they caught me by surprise. Didn’t see the angle coming and it sent my mind racing, exploring what was and could be.
This was another fun read in the Dinosaur Lake series. It’s a faced pace race to the finish as humans go up against giant dinosaurs, some favorite characters return, and a new mystery is added to the mix. Leave it to Kathryn to keep me questioning what this series is really all about.
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Synopsis
The predatory dinosaurs, amphibious, land-crawlers, air flyers, small and large, were dead; dead in all the forests, mountains, deserts, towns and cities of America and across the planet. They were still hunted, sought and exterminated when found, and these rogue beasts were becoming rarer every day. The humans’ dinosaur killing serum and extermination practices had worked far better than anyone had prayed and they had eventually freed the planet of its primordial scourge. The earth belonged to the humans once more and all its lands were safe–or so the world, Henry Shore, former Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park, and his wife, Ann, had believed…until one day years later two new dinosaurs, craftier than any the earth had ever seen, appeared. One of them was benevolent, a friend to mankind, and the other was not. It was blood-thirsty, eerily intelligent and unbelievably vengeful. This dinosaur wouldn’t be so easy to kill. *** Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors is the fifth book in the Dinosaur Lake series by Kathryn Meyer Griffith.
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In exchange for an honest review on Amazon and Goodreads, Kathryn will send a free eBook copy of any of her other 26 books. You can find the complete list of her books in her author bio below. Just send your request to this link HERE.
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Since childhood I’ve been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, over forty-five years ago now, and have had twenty-six (six romantic horror, four thrillers, three horror novels, two romantic SF horror, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel, one historical romance and eight murder mysteries) previous novels, two novellas and twelve short stories published from many traditional publishers since 1984. But since 2012 I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way; and upon getting some of my older books’ full rights back for the first time in 33 years, have self-published all of them along with my newer novels. My four Dinosaur Lake novels and four Spookie Town Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us and Witches Among Us) are my best-sellers. Once branded a horror writer, these days I consider myself a storyteller.
I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-nine years; have a son and two grandchildren and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk/classic rock singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes.
2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.
*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s books can be found HERE.
*All her Audible.com audio books HERE.
Novels and short stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:
Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forged, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire (2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDSFinalist in their Horror category), Witches, Witches II: Apocalypse, Witches plus bonus Witches II: Apocalypse, The Nameless One erotic horror short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper (The First Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Things Slip Away (The Second Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Ghosts Beneath Us (The Third Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Witches Among Us (The Fourth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Egyptian Heart, Winter’s Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don’t Look Back, Agnes, A Time of Demons and Angels, The Woman in Crimson, Human No Longer, Four Spooky Short Stories Collection, Forever and Always Romantic Novella, Night Carnival Short Story, Dinosaur Lake (2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDSFinalist in their Thriller/Adventure category), Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising and Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation, Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars, Memories of My Childhood (short story collection) and Christmas Magic 1959 short story.
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I’m glad Griffith has kept this series going. The cover on this new book is the best cover yet, very cool!
I was thrilled when she let me know she was working on this book! I hope she continues with the series. I can see where it can go down some different paths.
This sounds really exciting! You don’t see many stories featuring dinosaurs, love it😁
I’ve had so much fun with this series. And Kathryn packs in the dinosaur action!
The book sounds intriguing. That is one ugly cover critter! 🙂 I like the movie “One Million B.C.” (1940), starring Victor Mature and Carol Landis. Hope I win!
–Michael
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The cover is perfect. It very much SHOWS the story!
woo hoo. kathryn did another fantastic job and left me wondering…
Yep, I’m still wondering!
Thanks Laura for the review and the tag team giveaway! The new book is doing very well AND I just published, with help of an excellent translator, the first DINOSAUR LAKE book in SPANISH! First time any of my 28 novels have been put in another language ever. Writing the 6th Spookie Town Mystery now.
Wow. So many exciting things happening for you, Kathryn!
Cannot say I have seen a lot of dinosaur books like these around 😀 sounds action packed.
There really aren’t! This is my favorite dinosaur series!
Dang Laura these are scary covers!!! Humans against dinosaurs makes me think of Jurassic park!
Beware of the Reader…Jurassic Park? Want to hear a funny story? I actually wrote the *first* DINOSAUR LAKE in, oh, around 1992 or so, and my publisher at the time, Zebra Paperbacks, was slated to publish it in 1993 or so. Would have been my seventh published book. But, unfortunately, when the book was only 6 weeks before going to the bookstore shelves, final covers printed and final edits done, I got a new editor at Kensington (Zebra), John S., and he decided to abruptly drop my novel saying, “No one wants to read about a dinosaur.” It didn’t get published. Really. Not more than a year later Jurassic Park came out. I dumped the manuscript in a drawer and forgot it….for 20 years (2012) when I pulled it out, rewrote it and tried self-publishing for the first time. It sold like hotcakes and…here we are with Dinosaur Lake V. Just saying.
Oh my gosh! That over!!
I know!!
I loved the first Dinosaur Lake book.
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Thank you Sharon. You might like my free murder mystery Scraps of Paper or one of my scary books about witches, vampires or ghosts.
I don’t think that I have ever read a book that features dinosaurs before. What an interesting concept! This sounds like quite an intense series. Thank you for sharing it!
It has so much action!