A review by booksdogsandjess
Ocean Grave by Matt Serafini
1.0
This has a lot of glowing reviews on goodreads and I love a good monster story! Monster movies are my favourites and this cover looks so cool! So all these 4 star reviews I am excited but ....
This was kind of trash y'all. The monster is a gigantic prehistoric fish seemingly made of rock that is known to locals as "Death's Head" is it the best name? No, but whatever, you're not going to get a lot of "best" in this one.
The locals have known about Death's Head for years, but no one else has I guess, but the main industries on the island are beach tourism and fishing, so like it should come up?
The dialogue was not great, there were 1000 characters all in different areas of Madagascar, sexist to the hilt (I will not even get in to that) and similes for days that were so unnecessary. I will paraphrase here because I did not jot down the exact quote, but someone has been eaten by the monster while diving, blood is everywhere
"The oceans water lapped at the boat like the family dog at it's owner's hand making amends after destroying a couch cushion"
Legit halfway through I was rooting for the monster, eat them all.
This was kind of trash y'all. The monster is a gigantic prehistoric fish seemingly made of rock that is known to locals as "Death's Head" is it the best name? No, but whatever, you're not going to get a lot of "best" in this one.
The locals have known about Death's Head for years, but no one else has I guess, but the main industries on the island are beach tourism and fishing, so like it should come up?
The dialogue was not great, there were 1000 characters all in different areas of Madagascar, sexist to the hilt (I will not even get in to that) and similes for days that were so unnecessary. I will paraphrase here because I did not jot down the exact quote, but someone has been eaten by the monster while diving, blood is everywhere
"The oceans water lapped at the boat like the family dog at it's owner's hand making amends after destroying a couch cushion"
Legit halfway through I was rooting for the monster, eat them all.