Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Oh my. Where to begin with these books? Yes, I purchased and actually read all three in the series, and I'm not sure I can explain why, especially since they got progressively worse as the series unfolded. I was intrigued by the description of the first book, the advertisement for which popped up on the home screen of my Kindle. It could have been so good! But it just wasn't. The book's author must have paid a significant sum to have it advertised in this way. Otherwise I can't imagine anyone in a position to make marketing decisions would willingly advertise or recommend anything so poorly conceived and constructed. I wish I had better understood this before I purchased these things. Someone should have taken a giant red editorial pen to all this, for starters. Here are some specific things I didn't like about this book and the subsequent two: * Way too many things going on, and no real cohesion for any of it. Aliens! Dinosaurs! Mummies! Genetic tinkering and bio-engineering! People turning into animals and talking! Crazy tornadoes! Robots! Traveling through space and time! Sharks! Meteors! Viruses! Government conspiracy! Sinking ships! I'm sure I'm forgetting something here, but you get the picture. * In the spirit of the list item above, too many characters. Hard to keep up with all of it and where they were in the world, and what they were pursuing. * Some of the worst dialog I have ever read. * Chunks of tedious, excessively dry scientific theory and jargon to wade through. I think book two had an entire chapter of it at the beginning, and it bored me to absolute tears. I'm still not sure what this chapter was there to communicate, or how it contributed to the story, to be honest. * The beginning of book three didn't remotely connect with or pick up where book two left off. Totally confusing. Preview of book three was at the end of book two but I had skipped it, preferring instead to pick it up from the beginning of book three. It was so baffling I had to go back to book two and read the preview. This helped connect some of the dots, but then something that happened in the preview totally didn't happen in book three. Something entirely different happened. * Parts of these books felt preachy. Like the author had some personal moral agenda to promote. * Book three appeared to be more of a work in progress or draft than a finished product. There were literally whole sentences - lines of text with strike-through font where the author (or "Editor"?) revised the content, and I guess ran out of steam to actually remove them. I hope this is helpful. Reviews are completely subjective, and as a good friend always says, "There's an @ss for every saddle" -- so if it still sounds good to you, then by all means! Download and enjoy!. But don't say you haven't been warned. ;-)