Friday, June 9, 2017

Shark Island by Chris Jameson

3 Stars


Solidly entertaining summer scare yourself silly.

Naomi, Naomi... Naomi

Let's say you happen to wander along and spy this magnificence of nature. 


What do you do? 
A) Stop at a safe distance and takes some pictures
B) Jump off your boat to swim closer and take "nature shots"
C) Keep driving, you have better things to do and the garlic festival is waiting

Anything but B is correct. B is wrong, so wrong. This is not a spoiler, chill. 

As far as thrillers go, this is pretty good. Going in you know the people are going to be shark chum, but the events leading up to it and the taking of various characters and the play of group dynamics was good. I'll leave you to decide if karma was served.

There's a lot of this:



For my friends looking for diverse characters, this is excellent. Multiracial, neurodiverse, range of sexualities, and features some kickass women. That said, they're people, not just an amalgamation of genetics. You like or dislike them as people, which is the way characters should be written. 


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