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Having read Michael Capuzzo's excellent Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 (nonfiction) some ten or so years ago, I was quite excited to start listening to a new novel about that same series of shark attacks: Silent Came the Monster by Amy Hill Hearth, narrated by David Marantz.
But, alas, it may be one of the worst-written books I've read this century. The writing is amateurish, pedestrian, and boring as hell; how could someone take such exciting material and turn it into drivel? Initially, I was thinking it read like YA fiction, but that is an insult to YA fiction. It's more like something an unskilled wannabe writer self-publishes. Although it seems to have grammatical and understandable sentences, and probably has correct punctuation, it's lackluster and devoid of any real excitement or genuine emotion--quite the feat, when one is writing about such horrific attacks.
I really cannot believe how bad this book is.
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