Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer GriffithMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I received this book free as an ebook from a giveaway I found on Google+. Now I kinda want my money back.
I somehow made it 164 pages in, after talking myself into continuing several times. I started reading this one over a month ago, and only made it this far into it. That should be an indicator of how much I didn't really want to read it. Usually, I can burn through a book of this length in a matter of two or three days. The poorly written account of the dinosaur attacking the family on Phantom Ship Island put an end to that, though. I should've grabbed a clue from the hokey dialogue earlier in the book, so I can only blame myself for continuing this far into the book.
If you're going to use an actual location for your story, you should write realistically for the geography. Boat tours at Crater Lake don't drop people off at Phantom Ship, because there's no way anyone could walk around on it. And for the love of all things decent, please, please, please, don't string sentence fragment after sentence fragment after sentence fragment together and try to pass it off as writing. If you do that in dialogue, and actually pull it off, I may forgive you. Do it in an attempt to describe what should be an action sequence, and you've lost me.
Yet another book relegated to the Did Not Finish shelf.
Until next time, stay safe, and above all, be true to yourself.
That Aaron Guy
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