haven't even come close to finishing it but don't think that's a prerogative to judge the fourth book in this series (having read the previous three), as Hannah here admitted this is indeed a guilty pleasure but every book has been a steady decline way past the pressure limit so enough is enough....
The most fearsome predators in history…are no longer history. The Philippine Sea Plate: The most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its primordial crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa is inhabited by ...
Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now comm...
When discussing a book like RESURRECTION, it's hard to decide where to begin. Seldom has a book struggled so hard to achieve so little. The story combines so many elements--ancient Mayan mythology, time travel, spiritual warfare, remote viewing, natural disasters (volcanoes, hurricanes, and glo...
Well, wasn't that a disappointment. Some time ago--probably a year or two back--I saw a paperback copy of this book in the bookshop. I glanced at the blurb and thought interesting, but put it back and decided to look it up in the library. Aren't I glad I did. It wasn't the sketchy science that I ...
2 AND 1/2 STARS. I really enjoyed Meg, author Steve Alten's breakout bestselling novel, and with my fascination regarding the mysteries behind the Loch Ness Monster, I had to pick this one up too. For me, The Loch is a mixed bag. While the main storyline is quite exciting, Alten wedges large chun...
If you drew up a checklist of the necessary components of a B-movie creature-feature, then Meg would tick pretty much every box.Imperfect hero haunted by his past? Check ☑Beautiful heroine who loathes the hero with every fibre of her being right up to the point where she realises that she's neve...
Built atop solid rock, the lighthouse towered twenty feet above high tide, its lantern room encircled by a concrete observation deck. The only other buildings in the area were two original keeper’s dwellings located at the edge of a wood behind the lighthouse, now used by park personnel. The ligh...
Paul Agricola was the conductor, the mission’s maestro calling out direction in response to a rapidly changing concerto playing out six miles beneath his feet. The “percussion” driving the barely controlled mayhem was the steady cadence of pings from Sea Bat-II’s sonar sta...
But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” —Lewis Carroll “Take me back where? To Lake Vostok? You’re nuts!” “Zach, the space-time portal you accessed allows you to move within the multiverses of your soul’s existence. You can use the portal to access the future. Not only can you learn...
I sat down, readying myself for her lecture. “Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain . . . and all the children are insane.” “Excuse me?” “It’s a line from a Doors’ song, about the big sleep, you know—suicide. Maybe I was insane. All I know is that I co...
None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.—BRIAN COX, CERN PHYSICISTNEPALMAY 5, 2047The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a landlocked country shaped like a five-hundred-mile-long east-west bacon strip situated between China and India. While Nepal’s southern...
Without them, humanity cannot survive. —HIS HOLINESS TENZIN GYATSO, the fourteenth Dalai Lama In retrospect, the genetic engineering involved in creating the monstrous beings nimbly advancing toward me from across the recharging docks must have been far less challenging than designing a humanoid ...
He’s awake. Amergin heard the voice in his mind. The face withdrew into the gray blur. Amergin mac Mil, came a deeper voice. I am most surprised to see you again. And little has surprised me for centuries. The wizard raised his head once more and tried to focus. Off in the gloom, he could make ou...
A thorough physiological and genetics examination of the Gabriel Twins reveals some unique findings. Geneticists have isolated a mutation in chromosome six, in segments 6p21 through 6p26. This genetic anomaly (Hunahpu marker) is dominant in Jacob Gabriel (white-haired, blue-eyed twin) but so far ...