Michael Cole

A series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact. Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter. His search for answers puts him on a collision course with an eighty-foot predator, long thought extinct. Violent and merciless, it has risen to the surface, and seeks to wreak havoc on the small island community. Things only get worse for Nico after he discovers that a ruthless band of criminals, responsible for the deaths of two Miami cops, are lurking on the island. As the body count mounts, Nico is forced to simultaneously battle two separate monsters: Man and Meg. The result is a bloodbath.

Megalodon: Bloodbath

I first came across these ocean horror books a while back, and I think my brother might actually have gotten this for me off my wishlist. I might not have shared this before, but I love shark stuff of any kind. So naturally that includes shark horrors. (Especially).

The backdrop for this one is that a meteor broke up while burning its way through the atmosphere and hit the ocean. It created a giant tidal wave and also unleashed something…

…so when boats end up missing and a giant whale beaches itself to get away from something leaving 7ft crevasses in it, naturally we do NOT close the beaches. We do call in a marine biologist though and this one just so happens to be an ex wife to our lead officer. Go figure.

I know this is set up for a megalodon novel, but there is a giant tidal wave that just literally never gets mentioned again? No damage, no lives lost, no recovery…and the main setting is on an island? I honestly separated that from the book pretty easily, just found it a bit weird that it was included at all.

The problem with stories like these—even though I want to read it—is that there’s no way to not compare them. Especially this one, as it’s very ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Meg’. Although I admit my comparison with the latter is just the movie, I haven’t read the novel it’s based on. The beach not closing, the major police character involvement, and the gang activity (that mirrored the mob) read like the set up to Jaws. The ‘something from the depths was released’ plus the major (obvious) twist 3/4th in, is very The Meg.

I know this probably sounds like I’m just putting the book down, but I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun and super fast. It just really is Jaws/The Meg smushed together. If you can accept that that is more than likely exactly what you’re looking for, you’re good to go.

C. J. Daley 

I first came across these ocean horror books a while back, and I think my brother might actually have gotten this for me off my wishlist. I might not have shared this before, but I love shark stuff of any kind. So naturally that includes shark horrors. (Especially).

The backdrop for this one is that a meteor broke up while burning its way through the atmosphere and hit the ocean. It created a giant tidal wave and also unleashed something…

…so when boats end up missing and a giant whale beaches itself to get away from something leaving 7ft crevasses in it, naturally we do NOT close the beaches. We do call in a marine biologist though and this one just so happens to be an ex wife to our lead officer. Go figure.

I know this is set up for a megalodon novel, but there is a giant tidal wave that just literally never gets mentioned again? No damage, no lives lost, no recovery…and the main setting is on an island? I honestly separated that from the book pretty easily, just found it a bit weird that it was included at all.

The problem with stories like these—even though I want to read it—is that there’s no way to not compare them. Especially this one, as it’s very ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Meg’. Although I admit my comparison with the latter is just the movie, I haven’t read the novel it’s based on. The beach not closing, the major police character involvement, and the gang activity (that mirrored the mob) read like the set up to Jaws. The ‘something from the depths was released’ plus the major (obvious) twist 3/4th in, is very The Meg.

I know this probably sounds like I’m just putting the book down, but I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun and super fast. It just really is Jaws/The Meg smushed together. If you can accept that that is more than likely exactly what you’re looking for, you’re good to go.

Megalodon: Bloodbath

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