I loved the Meg series, but this book seems to be resting on laurels of a good idea. More creatures seems to move the novel from Jurassic Shark to Jurassic Park and it’s not working.

As a high fan of this series i have to say I was disappointed, there was too much going on and it was hard to remember who was trying to capture which creature though I will read the inevitable sequel

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this brilliant book

my first ever meg book and it wont be my last...

struggled a bit with the big long names of all the megs and dino things...and i sort of in my head could see the sort of ships they used to catch and transport each creature...

but the actual storyline had me hooked....and that ending...oh man...you cant end a book like that...

will be keeping an eye out for more of this authors works....

For some reason I had a hard time getting into this latest addition to the MEG series. Not as good as previous books in the series, just ok. Thank you for the opportunity!

So I am a big fan of the Meg books. Just know that before I say I FREAKING LOVED THIS BOOK!!! I read every word and I’m already going to tell y’all I read it twice. Perfect and engrossing. You will be captured by the story from the first sentence to the last.

While not my fav of the MEG series, Steve Alten’s latest installment still was a fun over-the-top monster story and a perfect read to escape from reality…especially during a pandemic! Would recommend, and HIGHLY recommend reading his earlier works!

**I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book that I received via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own. **

Steve Alten has written another blockbuster. As an Alten fan and a Meghead, I was not disappointed with Meg: Generations. I was happy with all the new species introduced, especially the Helicoprions. I was happy the Taylor family continues in this novel and look forward to seeing them in the next sequel. I could not put the book down and read cover to cover. The plot was non stop action and highly interesting. Well worth the read.

I have been a fan of the Meg series since the first book came out in 1998. This is the sixth book in the series, and it continues the exciting narrative of its predecessors. Steve Alten knows how to keep the tension mounting without sacrificing what makes the story interesting. Yes the series is about giant sharks, but it is the adventures of the Taylor family that make the series work. This has become a truly generational series, and it continues to be a pleasure to read.

I have loved the Meg series of novels since the year the first one debuted in 1997.

I've been an avid MEGhead for 2 decades, and I adore Steve Alten, whom I now consider a friend. So it truly hurts me to write this, but....I didn't love Meg: Generations.

My main gripe about this book is simply that there is just too much going on. We have Megs, Pliosaurs, Mosasaurs, Helicoprion, Titanoboa, Plesiosaurs, Leedsychthys, a Livyatan sperm whale...the list goes on and on and on.

Beyond the creatures, there is an astronomical number of groups, all with different motives--some from Dubai, from the California government, and from China. In addition, there are the hired hands of a family who is taking personal revenge on the Meg pups, and finally, the Taylor family, who are more focused on Terri's cancer and Parkinson's disease than any creature in the water.

It's honestly difficult to keep everyone straight and, because there are so many individual story lines, I didn't feel as though any of them were fleshed out or given the attention they deserve.

There are also really weird, huge gaps in the timeline when the reader is virtually left in the dark regarding the happenings in that interim.

I will say, the final 25% of the book is action packed and far more entertaining than the first three quarters.

I miss the days when Alten wrote from the perspective of the sea creatures...that was always highly effective, in my opinion. And don't get me wrong...I still think this book is worth reading, along with the entire MEG series. I just don't personally think it's one of the better books in the series.

I am thrilled, however, about the MEG movie which was released a couple years ago. So much fun!

**Many thanks to the publisher for my review copy.**

I love Steve Alten's Meg books and was really excited to see another one available through NetGalley. Although I enjoyed this, it's very formulaic and there was nothing unexpected in the story.

***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***
As always, I love Steve Alten's Meg series. They're quick reads that offers suspense and a new prehistoric creature to give you the chills.

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more of this series? Yes, in fact I own books 2-4 and have already read book 2 even though its been years since I've read it and at the time I didn't know it was part of a series.

Would I read more by this author? Yes

First off I want to thank the publisher for granting my request of this book, as soon as I saw it on NetGalley I know I had to see if I could request it and the very same day i found out that I got it , I was so surprised that I just wanted to say thanks, because even though I've only read book 2 and I've seen and even own the movie that was made from book 1( The Meg 2018) its one of my favorite series to read.

Now lets get on to what I thought of the book itself :

Even though this is book 6, I had no trouble understand what was going on thinks to the author reintroducing the characters and giving you a little bit of their back story. This is the type of story I love to read and get lost in where you have a man vs nature.And it shows what might be out there since we still don't know what kind of creatures live in the deeps part of the oceans , and yes I do know that this is science fiction but every day we make discoveries that can't be explain or that we thought was extinct. Other thing I loved about this story was the feeling that it give you when even one of of the creatures came on scene which is funny because every time that would happen I would start to think of the song from Jaws ( you know the one, where every time someone was about to die the music would start to play), what can I say i love when a book like this gives me all the stuff I love in a horror book or movie which is that it keeps you up all night so much so that you don't want to go to bed and just want to keep reading but when you do go, you start to dream of a man eating shark , or maybe that's just me. It has the blood and gore in it ( ok may that makes me a little bloodthirsty) as well as the feeling that you don't ever want to go back into the water again. And its a perfect read to read right now with all the craziness going on, with that said I want also give thanks to NetGalley for letting me read it as well and I can't wait to see what happens next .

I’m kind of bummed to be giving this one three stars. I love books like this, loved the Meg movie, and was just so excited to read this. I literally moved it up in my TBR pile.

It’s got an unforgivable sin for this kind of book: It’s just not that fun.

Oh, it eventually gets fun…but there’s a whole lot to get through before you get near that point. You have monologues. Confusing characters – sometimes I really didn’t remember them from one scene to another. Enough information on cancer and chemo that I might currently be qualified to be an oncologist. And vomiting. Many characters vomit (one specific one vomits three times). And the fact that I was counting vomit episodes in the book might tell you a bit about my engagement level.

The prehistoric beastie theme park could have been a blast, but it’s mostly glossed over.

When our beasties finally get to go and kill a bunch of hapless humans, things finally get fun and I did race through the last 20% of the book.

But mostly, I just wasn’t that entertained.

*ARC Provided via Net Galley

If you've read any of the books in the MEG series you will be familiar with the formula. This one follows perfectly and continues the ongoing story of creatures who were believed to be extinct but now manage to wreak havoc in current day. The megalodon shark that Jonas Taylor captured in a previous story is coming out of it’s drug-induced state and is hell bent on escaping. Thrills, drama and death ensue. I love this series no matter how predictable they may be. They are well written and this author builds incredible suspense and tension and does a great job of placing you right in the middle of it all. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced readers copy for review.

To me, the MEG series is exactly what the phrase "guilty pleasure" means.  These books are no literary classics.  But they sure are fun! 

I've followed Steve Alten's MEG series since the very beginning and was absolutely thrilled to get picked to receive an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.  Alten did not disappoint.  This book is everything is promises to be.  A fun, light, keep-you-up-all-night, thrill-ride of a read.  The perfect selection for those of us stuck at home self-quarantining.  Enjoy!

I’ve been a fan of cheesy monster plots since well, as far as I can remember and Steve Alten’s Meg series fell straight into this crack of a thing I have. A prehistoric monster shark is like Jaws on steroids, so it’s a no-brainer that my own cheesy love for these creatures far outstrips the sometimes-cringeworthy way the various screenplays or books are written.

But the Meg series has come a long way, bagging movie rights along the way, and perhaps this too, has expanded into a franchise that has gotten too big for my liking. Action-driven scenes, a fragmented storyline shooting out in different directions and multiple POVs made for flat 2-dimensional characters—characters who only come to life because of the familiarity gained through reading Alten’s first few Meg books. (The lack of formatting here made the reading experience infinitely more annoying and confusing)

It’s pure entertainment if you like—albeit a hard to follow one if you’ve not read the past few books—with take-it-or-leave-it dialogues, condensed science-fiction, designed so you don’t have to think much about it as scene after scene flip by without much nuanced thought about characters and their personalities, their morals or the unvaried speeches they give.

The loose link here is the Tanaka/Taylor family and the new generation along with the sharks’ offsprings, with the added layers of complications of politics, businesses capitalising on mega-predators, wealthy investing and all the other issues that come with the world discovering that prehistoric (and huge) predators do live among us…if you know where to look.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with Meg: Generations; however, I was hoping it would have mirrored the clarity and good ol’ directness of the first few books at least. This was barely readable, somehow and with the cliffhanger ending, I was just ready to throw it all in.