This book has so much happening! It's got lots of science discussion, tons of underwater action, a lot of shark/Megolodon presence, and character development that exceeded my expectations. I saw this movie when it came out a year ago and was skeptical about the book. While I enjoyed the movie, I wondered how all that "ridiculousness" would play out in a book. Well, 98% of that ridiculousness is only in the movie so it turned out great!

Reading about this GIGANTIC Megolodon swimming around, stalking the submersibles, and attacking whales/humans/etc had me on edge. It was stressful reading this but in a way that I had hoped Jaws would have made me feel but didn't. Yes, I went there. I compared this wild ride of a book to Jaws. And I will gladly defend why it is better than Jaws to anyone whenever I see them (the book only, not the movie!) For starters, I didn't spend almost ~100 PAGES reading about some boring, lame affair when I should have been reading about... A SHARK.

Alten did a great job at keeping my interest piqued. I was never bored and could hardly turn these pages fast enough! There is a blurb on the back of the book from the Los Angeles Times that calls this one "Jurassic Shark" and they are not wrong at all! I am READY to read the rest of the series - I did not even know it was a series until I picked up this copy! 5 sharky stars from me!