Review: A Lot of Fun! If You Liked Snakes on a Plane, Or Enjoy Playing Hungy Shark Evolution, You'll Like Salechii!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
The first thing to point out is that this is a fiction book where animals are psychopathic and want to kill any human the second they lay eyes on them.  It does not portray sharks or any other animal as the peaceful not interested in killing or eating humans like they are in the real world fish that we all know they are.  If you enjoyed movies like Snakes on a Plane or a lot of straight to video in the 80's and 90's creature attack humans in the wrong place movies, (I know I did), then Salechii is the book for you.  I couldn't put it down!  I would have liked to have had some explanation as to why the sharks were behaving in this unnatural way though.  Snakes on a Plane explained the desire to kill all humans on the plane as a result of some hormone the drug baron had snuck on the plane.  Not really plausible but for this type of movie/book that's all you need.  Since the book is set in the future sometime, where intelligent robots work alongside humans, maybe they could have been experimenting with a chip injected into the seacreatures' brains to develop sharks to rescue people lost at sea or defend the Australian borders or something ridiculous like that.  We just needed some sort of explanation.The writing does have some faults, particularly it needs a bit of editing primarily with typos which were probably caused by a spell check replacing the correct word with a correctly spelt but wrong word. Cairns is always referred to without the s as Cairn for some reason. Again if this was intentional an explanation as to why the city (it's not a small town as referred to on these pages) chose to change its name. While that's being explained, also maybe why the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has shrunk on these pages, possibly linked why the artificial intelligence is being added to the sharks?  At the moment it stretches almost to Papua New Guinea so this Shark Park being near Cairns yet on the border of the Marine Park doesn't make any sense. This is actually the type of thing that would be allowed to built inside the marine park, as hotels and similar attractions already exist, especially as ecotourism and educating the public on conservation are strongly encouraged in the state of Queensland. There's an occasion where a female hammer head is giving birth and the word his is used in reference to her.  Besides the wanting to kill all humans element we've also got stuff like hammerheads using their heads like hammers, but I found this sort of over the top ridiculous thing just reinforces the cheesy animal attack genre feeling as I turned the pages making me want to read it even more.  I really couldn't put this one down, it was a very fun read.  The characters both shark and human although animal attack genre clichéd, I found interesting and pleasure to follow on the pages. I really could see this being turned into a movie.Once the story is over if you continue on flipping the Kindle pages the author explains how to get automatic updates on your Kindle so if she updates this we will get updated versions.  So if an editor fixes the spell check typos, we'll get those updated pages.  She also mentions sequels and short stories related to this book.  I for one look forward to reading those.  Easily a five star story for the sheer fact I didn't want to stop reading and would recommend it to anyone who likes the cheesy animal attack humans genre.  If Amazon let me put 4 and a half stars that would be my overall rating due to the typos and unexplained differences to reality with Cairns, North Queensland and the sharks.