Meg: Nightstalkers

Gave this a go when I saw that all except for 2 are currently included with audible. Just in time to head into October spooky reads, and I love some scifi shark horror. Each one's been a little less science and a bit more fiction, but parts have remained fun. 

So I should have been expecting the curve ball. I mean, coming from the guy that has apparently edited/rereleased books post publishing, getting his own characters ages wrong, entirely stepping away from his somewhat ‘plausible' science behind the survival of megalodon, his continued harping on them being gigantic great white sharks—years after they were removed from the same scientific family, the fact that every plot is virtually 100% the same, but I honestly didn't. Didn't see it coming. 

This book mixes Alten's Jonas Taylor with Zachary Wallace, the biologist from his Loch series. I really typically like when authors add snippets of their other books into the same world. Whether it be names, locations, or characters. However, out of absolutely nowhere, he has completely meshed the two, so that with next to no explanation, their worlds are the same. Oh, and did I mention time travel? Well...not exactly, but ‘multiple futures' make an appearance in this one. Not only are they after one of the largest sea creature to ever live, a Liopleurodon, but guess what, Wallace is saying that they've already done this before. 

The rails are right here where I'm writing...







...and here's where Alten's plot has fallen. Absolutely insane. Unhinged. Completely irrelevant to the series. How do you write five books about megalodon? By making them about anything but. 

Somehow, unbelievably, perhaps even insanely, personally still a 3/5*. He does write thrilling ocean action.