Falling Prey by M. C. Norris

  I love a good monster story.  I love the idea of something unreal doing lots of damage and that's what this story gave me.  

     Falling Prey, by M. C. Norris, starts out fairly strong.  The first thing I noticed was, they were flying TWA- that plane company has been gone since... I don't even remember!  93?  Maybe even sooner.  Then of all things, a terrorist attack of sorts takes place and all heck breaks loose with people falling from the sky... into the gaping maws of a ginormous mosasaurus!  I was like, what?

     Then the story hit some serious issues!  I realized I was about 70% in to the book and another entirely new situation was kicking up and I still had no clear idea on why any of the story had even taken place!  How in the world can you bring a new story into play when the book's about to end?  I didn't really like that, but from the way I'm understanding it, the author either left it to possibly return with a sequel later or my imagination.  To be honest, I think my imagination's much better.  I really liked Falling Prey but it was rather wordy and those words didn't bring everything together well.  Like, the volcanic eruption that just came out of nowhere- what was the deal with that?  Was it planned?  Did the crazy Doctor know there would be an eruption?  The crowd of chanters- it was all weird, like Norris just decided,  "Welp, that's enough of that!"   and  WHAM! ... The End. It's a massive, weak cliffhanger (if that was his intention), but the book just didn't end on a decent note.  I felt like I was dumped in the center of a story and then it ended.  I can say though, I understood enough of the ending to sorta imagine what may have happened next...

     Anyway, I have another book by Norris.  I'm hoping it will be better.  On to my next book!!