![]() The novel isn't all d j -vu shark action, though, since Alten bifurcates the narrative. She escapes, however, and starts eating them-munching on yacht-goers, a kayaker, a submariner-and swallows other animals, including a media-darling whale named Tootie, before she returns to her home in the Pacific's Mariana Trench. It's four years after the bloody doings of Meg, and Angel, the daughter of the Carcharadon megalodon of that novel, is now terrifying tourists at a Monterey aquarium. ![]() Alten can still write a mean giant prehistoric shark scene, but he flails like a fish out of water at nearly everything else (of his #1 human villain, psycho billionaire Benedict Singer, he writes, ""Benedict stood before the window, his arms outspread, emerald eyes blazing as he reveled in his glory""). So how bad is this spawn of Meg, which Doubleday declined to publish (albeit perhaps in an earlier version)? About as bad-and as good-as its predecessor. ![]()
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