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So, this book, okay, I picked up this book as a joke, because it had a picture of a giant shark fighting a t-rex on the front and who can resist that kind of cover? (Hint: not me.)

And this book. Holy this this book. It has all these cliches that I hate, so I should hate the book, but somehow it worked in this context.

The main plot is that there are giant sharks (megaladons/"Megs") living in the Marinas Trench, surviving on giant squid, and the warmth of the geothermal vents, but trapped by the 6 mile layer of cold water above it. And then people accidentally let a 60 foot shark out of that area, and it starts eating whales. And people. And boats.

Also it's pregnant.

Climax of the story? The hero rocket propels a submersible into the meg's mouth, and down it's stomach where he manages to get out of the rocket and not get digested, slice open the meg's stomach, get to the heart, and kill the meg- not with a knife, though; that would be far too mundane. No, he does all of this with a fossilized megaladon tooth.

Then he hops back into the submersible, and gets back to the surface.

And that was the point where all I could do was stare at the book befuddled because holy shit. It opened with a giant ass shark eating a t-rex and ended with a guy standing up in the thoracic cavity of a giant shark and cutting it's heart open with a fossilized tooth. What do you say to that?

AND DID I MENTION THAT THE SHARK GLOWS The shark glows.

(It was funny because they keep calling it a "Meg"/"Megs" which was hella weird because that's my godmother's name. >_>)

It did have the creepy "girl who had a high school crush on hero ends up being his lover" subplot which I normally loathe, but I managed to tolerate this one because, while she had a crush on him in high school, they met once, and then they didn't see each other/contact each other for seven years, at which point the girl (Terry) did not actually immediately revert to her high school crush, but it was still a little disconcerting.

But yeah, it was a book about a giant (60 ft) shark eating people. I'm not going to complain too much.

If it helps, Terry actually gets pretty badass in the sequel (there are already hints of it in the first novel, with her wanting to go down herself in the Abyss Glider and everything, she's not passive about anything if she can help it) and becomes her own character. And it's NOT portrayed as some fairytale romance (them having marital problems is what kickstarts the plot of The Trench), so it ends up being really not creepy at all.

Oh yeah, I actually really liked that about her, how she wasn't passive about anything, and was definitely proactive at times (switching explosives for the tracking device? I thought it was neat!)

Thanks for letting me know, though! I'm glad it's not portrayed as perfect, you know?

omg I want this

all I saw was "eating whales. Also it's pregnant." and I decided I wanted this.

Edited 2014-02-15 21:55 (UTC)

It's so ridiculously awesome I loved it! :D

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