Shark infested waters swimming in blood and gore!



A small backstory:

Suzanne Merriweather is a climatologist and she studies climate changes within the ocean, but when her and her crew discover a fissure on the ocean floor that is releasing methane - they also realize that the fissure is releasing chimaera sharks. The size of them is what has her worried as they are bigger than normal and they are out for blood.

The only man that can help her figure out what is going on is her ex-husband (Whit) and as much as she doesn't want to get him involved, she has to pull him back into her life as he is the only one that has studied the chimaera sharks and knows them better than anyone.

When her and her ex-husband team back up they do not realize that they will be in a fight for survival as the chimaera sharks have infested the ocean and they are hungry for blood. Nothing will stop them tearing apart whatever lies in their path!

Thoughts:

This was a great shark story and as always with books by this author, it was a blood and guts feeding fest!

The last half of the book I read within 24 hours as I just could not put it down! There is tons of action throughout most of the book, but the last half of the book was a bloodfest!

It is a good thing I had my gore suit on as I needed it for this book! Giving this book five "Shark Infested" stars!

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https://booknookretreat.blogspot.com/2021/07/they-rise-by-hunter-shea.html ( )

I always hunt for Hunter Shea when I want some senseless monster fun. B-Movie madness, gore, and monsters!!!!

And he's back. And this novella is pretty much what I wanted [b:Meg|105744|Meg (MEG, #1)|Steve Alten|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407870638s/105744.jpg|411660] to be but didn't quite manage.

Shea's got it. Novellas are the perfect length for this kind of thing. Fast and furious characterizations that are dropped face first into the muck (or ocean) to be eaten in glorious fashion.

And then the fighting back is just as good.

Mind you, I DO have to turn my head off sometimes as I read these, but I'm not reading them for accuracy. It's monster madness! :) I'm having a great time.

:) ( )

They Rise was my first read of 2016 and I knew even before finishing that it was going to be one for my Favourites of 2016 shelf. I couldn't put this book down - it was terrifying, it was engrossing, it was fascinating and I was "hooked" (see what I did there!). I loved everything about it.

They Rise is one of those books where I find myself struggling to really do the book justice and to express how much I enjoyed it. I think what really got to me, aside from the story itself, was the plausibility of it. The sea can be a scary force to be reckoned with on its own but throw in the horrors found in this book and you have a whole different level of scary. A "There's not a chance in hell that I would dip my toe in there, even if you paid me!" kind of scary. The whole time I was reading I found myself thinking that this could really happen, perhaps not to this extreme but something similar, which is a very scary thought that added so much more to the story.

They Rise creates an atmosphere full of fear, tension, and anticipation that along with its breathtaking pace will have you turning the pages desperate to know what comes next. But at the same time, because the characters are so believable and their fear so easy to relate to, you don't want to know what happens next because you are so wrapped up in them and their experiences that you don't want anything bad to happen to them.

On finishing this book I immediately told my daughter how good it was and that she should give it a read, she's on the same page as me, so to speak. Definitely one we would both recommend and an easy 5 stars. ( )

Hunter Shea is fast becoming one of my favorite horror authors. He knows how to write a compelling and engrossing horror novel.
Brad Whitley is a marine biologist who is an expert on chimaera fish otherwise known as "ghost fish".
Through global warming that is also affecting the ocean, Brad is confronted with an ancient and enormous version of these fish. It will take everything he knows, and with help from his ex-wife and the US Navy to stop these monsters from destroying everything in their path.
"They Rise" reminds me a little bit of "Jaws" but only in the sense of an immense eating machine that is a threat to everyone who dares to leave dry land. The action is quick to start but Shea manages to set up a bit of character development that only adds to the depth of the book. This is the second book I have read by Hunter Shea and I absolutely devoured this book. ( )