A review by twstdtink
White Shark by Peter Benchley

2.0

I loved this book for the first 1/3. It’s written so much better than Jaws. There’s great flow. The characters are well developed. I even loved the double intro explaining the Nazi experiments and then how the creature was discovered and accidentally unleashed. I thought, a Great White with metal teeth? COOL. But, bit by bit, as Benchley started describing this creature, things just got weird. You’re reading about what you assume is a shark and suddenly he describes it as having claws. Claws? Oh. Hm. Ok. Then he says it has webbed feet. Huuuuh. Then it can crawl out of the water and convert its lungs from breathing in water to air. What am I reading here? I just kept laughing. It was like something out of my 9-year-old’s imagination.