Devour [Dramatized Adaptation]

Written by Kurt Anderson

Narrated by A Full Cast, Alejandro Ruiz, Chris Genebach and 23 more

IT LURKS
Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry…

IT HUNTS
Thirty-five miles off the Massachussetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. The creature likes this human prey. The chewy outer hide. The tender saltiness within. And it wants more…

IT FEEDS
Responding to a distress signal, fishing-boat captain Brian Hawkins arrives in time to save the ship's last survivor. But the nightmare is just beginning. A casino cruise ship carrying high-stakes passengers—and a top-secret cargo—becomes the creature's bloodsoaked hunting ground. Desperate but determined, Hawkins goes after the biggest catch of the century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: GraphicAudio
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648793769

Kurt Anderson

Kurt Anderson a jack-of-all-trades-and master of absolutely none. A regular contributor for Family Handyman and Outdoor Life, Kurt knows how to get into (and usually out of) trouble, both in and outside of the home. When he's not throwing hay bales or hammering nails, you can find him roaming northern Minnesota, riding (and repairing) his motorcycle, fishing, hunting, canoeing, and fixing things he's managed to foul up. He lives in Brookston, MN.

Reviews for Devour [Dramatized Adaptation]

[tobinelliott · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Easily 150 pages longer than it should have been. This book is called Devour, so most of the time, the focus should be on the monster...that's trying to...devour.

Instead, we get endless pages of set-up and narration of an illegal (and frankly, stupid) card game and its two players. We get to know far too many characters, including the unlikable Frankie, who set up the stupid card game, the ship's captain, the bartender, the other, smaller ship's captain, the waitress, the unloved little adopted girl... we get to know all their innermost—and mostly banal—thoughts, hopes, dreams, and their past. We also get to watch virtually every single one of them make the stupidest decisions possible. I can't even go into them all here, because it's simply not worth it, but trust me, you'll understand if you're unlucky enough to read this book.

We're also treated to some incredibly awful thoughts from the attacking creature as well.

In between, we get the odd, reasonably well written scenes of monster attacks.

This is obviously a book by an author more interested in writing a high stakes character driven novel about mostly unlikable people either directly or indirectly involved in a card game, then bolted on a Jaws-like plot to up the stakes.

Along the way, it's also obvious he doesn't know how to ultimately have his hero defeat the big bad, so he basically relies on luck and limps it to the end.

Not the worst I've read, but not even close to the best.

[andorion-259107 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Giant prehistoric sea monster wakes and goes on a rampage! In other words, delicious popcorn for me!

By the standards of most creature feature books, this one is quite well written with sketched out characters and a secondary story. The author weaves in a lot of Jaws tropes and adds in some Titanic moments to construct a very entertaining read.

[zmagic69 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I gave this book 3 stars because the writing is good. The problem is the story is boring. This could have been either non stop death, or funny crazy situations with people being killed. Instead there was way to much filler around many of the characters, and I found myself asking who cares too many times. It started off well, but dropped off from there and was just too long.