Review: what a waste...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Can't go into a lot of detail although I did finish this one.  SPOILER ALERT!!  I was well into the book before I realized that the supposed "heroine" was the girl!  For someone with a shark phobia so intense that she slept in the closet once she and her dad were actually in their room at the park, once she touches the whale shark all is forgiven (the reason for her phobia: saw a kid get his leg bitten off by a shark when she was younger) and she suddenly has the ability to lead her dad who was a gung ho action actor in the movies and has become adept at bribing the girl with whatever to get her to do what he wants (as in go to the shark park in the first place because he thought it would be good therapy for her - but he does seem to be a nice man) - around with his eyes shut because he has become so scared of the sharks.  Also, she falls in love (yeah, right) with the young man whose father is one of the directors of said park.  Remember, folks, as you read this that all this takes place within a day or so... the 5-category hurricane that nobody has predicted... the shark "crossings" from tank to tank... the sinking of their man-made reef... the exploring of the reef on stolen jet skis that are protected with a gazillion layers of some protective plastic and are made of titanium... the robot helpers that I could never really figure out if they looked like monkeys or kangaroos because it was stated that they had tails like kangaroos that they could lean back on and at the same time were so flexible that they could dip crackers into peanut butter and feed to a child - andthe sudden appearance of a psycho saboteur that we've never even suspected existed UNTIL THE VERY LAST PAGES... (what a convenient ploy to bring the story toward its close when you can't figure any other way to get the story to end)... I think this might have been a better book with MUCH BETTER EDITING than was done - McCray said that it had been gone over many times - but they had their eyes shut, evidently - anyway... a disappointment for me... won't be reading any more of her books.  READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!