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Buddy Read, Part Three, Chap. 18-32 (with Spoilers)
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I have no idea what made me join after all. 🙈 Ah well, it‘s Shark Week! *lol*
Uhm ... time travel?! Ah, no, alternate realities (triggered BY time travel). ... I'm VERY confused now. *lol* Has to do with the book Vostok. Shan't say anything else though spoilers about the chapters in this part are OK. It seems ... very out of place and like the author keeps throwing different shit into the story to keep making if biggerbetterfaster. *sighs*
Chapter 22… seriously, I agree with Trish… time travel? Really, that sperm whale from the dawn of time was already a bit much, but now we are really going off the rails. I wish that Alten had just stayed with the main plot — chasing the megs and capturing that Liopleurodon.
Cathy wrote: "that sperm whale from the dawn of time was already a bit much"RIGHT?!
Cathy wrote: "I wish that Alten had just stayed with the main plot — chasing the megs and capturing that Liopleurodon."Yep. I'll even go so far as to say introducing a Liopleurodon in the previous book was a mistake.
I just finished Part 3. I quite liked this part. Good action, despite having too may different monsters. I didn‘t mind all the new monsters in the last book, they worked within the setting of that book.
Here it read like a hodgepode of crazy.
Cathy wrote: "Here it read like a hodgepode of crazy."My main criticism too. :/
What? The alternate timeline stuff? Yeah, he really went there.
Done with part three. I pretty much lost interest during that part of the book. It's just too stupid all around and not pulpy enough to make it work. Not sure why he even introduced the alternate timeline nonesense. It doesn't seem to have added anything to the story.
Yep, I felt exactly the same. I had to force myself to keep on reading. *sighs*
I actually enjoyed that part. That was the whole sub action in the underwater lake system, right?
I think so? I have already forgotten the whole book.No, it must have been in part three, yes.
I agree with y'all. The time travel bit is absurd. I know Jonas is open-minded, but seeing a meg for yourself versus being told that two timelines three days apart have come together are not on the same level. I'd have told Zack to f-off with his crazy crystal ball.
I enjoyed seeing Terry take center stage and pilot the craft to sink the lio. That was one scene that I'd have liked to have been longer!
Trish wrote: "Uhm ... time travel?! Ah, no, alternate realities (triggered BY time travel). ... I'm VERY confused now. *lol* Has to do with the book Vostok. Shan't say anything else though spoilers about the cha..."Yeah, Trish, I always thought of the first MEG book as a thriller or eco-thriller. I assume the Loch books were more like, um, cryptozoology fantasy. Now they've been blurred together.
What's up with Rashidi having a bad cold? Maybe I'm reading to much into it during the covid era, but I can't figure out where that's going.
Russ wrote: "I agree with y'all. The time travel bit is absurd. I know Jonas is open-minded, but seeing a meg for yourself versus being told that two timelines three days apart have come together are not on the..."Yes, it's weird that he just goes along with this. On the other hand, no one seems to have a problem with all these extinct animals popping up left and right.
Russ wrote: "I always thought of the first MEG book as a thriller or eco-thriller. I assume the Loch books were more like, um, cryptozoology fantasy. Now they've been blurred together."He should have just gone with the formular from the first book. That one actually worked.
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