They have to find a way to evade the sharks and escape the town before they all end up dead, or find a way to destroy The Mass. I enjoyed seeing the death and destructions and the survivors trying to band together to survive. There is plenty shark related deaths as they all come ashore and invade the town one night. There was gun wielding bar owner Susan who was a proper take charge woman, writer Boyd who is sick of rewrites every time something goes wrong, who finds himself allowed to live as long as he continues to write the film plot as The Mass lets events unfold. There is Tamara, who is amusing herself having flings with several crew members and although she is classified at the slut, I actually liked her because she was pretty honest and straightforward about what she wanted and more resourceful a character than I expected. There is classic horror actor Jarrod, who conceals that he has terminal cancer from the rest of the crew, with the exception of his fan and assistant Tasha, who has her own psychic abilities. The very fact that killer sharks can slither through streets looking for victims and break into buildings is enough to give any horror fan a scare! The product is a book written like a B-move plot about a filming of a B-movie, and I actually thought it was fun and entertaining to read. The Mass also has absorbed the idea of staging this slaughter like the plot of a horror film, but one with no happy ending. So begins a process of The Mass adapting the sharks so they can spread out from The Mass and go hunt food on land, putting every person in the town at risk. When the sharks eat someone from the production team, the mind of that person is absorbed into The Mass and it discovers what human imagination is. Now The Mass is moving closer to shore where the filming is going on and has developed a taste for human flesh.īridgewater does not know what is about to hit it. It has captured sharks and enslaved them to effectively hunt for The Mass, attached by organic cords that can stretch over a distance. Two location scouts are out in the water and are first to see The Mass, a floating island of blood cells and consumed foods that has been around since the dawn of time. A film crew are making a cheap B-movie version about the events featured in Teeth Of The Sea, and have chosen a small town struggling to get back on its feet after major hurricane damage to film it. I very much enjoyed Teeth Of The Sea by this author and this is a sort of follow up but you can read this as a stand-alone. In addition to writing, Tim is also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College. He's won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award. He writes original fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. Think Sharknado without the bad weather.īoth Teeth of the Deep and Blood Island are published by Severed Press and are available now.įrom the author's bio - Tim Waggoner's first novel came out in 2001 Since then he's published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. It's time to shut off your sense of disbelief and prepare for one wild ride. Most of them well-developed and in mortal peril. Wonderful action sequences right from the start. Little does the cast and crew realize there is more lurking in the waters offshore than the mechanical beast the propmasters have designed for this low-budget masterpiece. In an effort to capitalize on the events detailed in Waggoner's previous Severed Press novel Teeth of the Sea a film crew, led by director, Inez Perry is filming a B-Movie, Devourer of the Deep. Life here at the dawn of time is extremely good for the Mass. It will save several of the ur-tadpoles to serve as Hunters until such time as it can find better – and bigger – servants. It will add the ur-tadpoles’ substance to its own and grow larger and stronger. And that is to entertain in the way a classic B-Movie like "Hell Comes to Frogtown" or "It Came From Beneath the Sea" did back in the day. It's not even on par with Moby Dick, but it is worth of 5 Stars for the simple reason it succeeds in doing exactly what it sets out to do.
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