An Adventure on the Atlantic! | Kronos

Not So Much Fun | Kronos | Jeremy Robinson

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	• Kronos Jeremy Robinson Variance Publishing LLC, 2009 - 423 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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monster meets navy seal

my first book by jeremy robinson. i will admit i bought this book thinking it was going to be another prehistoric sea monster thriller like was done by steve alten. but it kept me hooked, even though the monster was only present in half the book. the rest of the story was laid out real well. lot of action keeps the book moving along between monster encounters.
like i said this book kept me glued to every page. read it by all means. dubbs up for jeremy robinson on a fine book. i may go out and find some more books by mr. robinson and see if he can keep my interest with them as he did with kronos.

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An Adventure on the Atlantic!

This book was quite exciting - and definitely turned out to be quite different than I expected it to be. On the surface, it shared many of the similarities to Steve Alten's Meg books - Atticus and Jonas Taylor both can take a lot trauma! However, Robinson's book had more of a spiritual theme that took me by surprise. I think that Laurel was probably my favorite character - though her gender switch from beginning to ending was rather unsettling... It is rather hard to believe that an error of that magnitude was not caught before publication (not to mention other grammatical errors, which I can only hope were typographical) Still, errors aside, this book was a fun adventure and I am looking forward to reading his other books!

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Not So Much Fun

Kronos is about one man's revenge and another man's desire for trophies.

Atticus Young just can't catch a break. His wife is dead and, while diving with whales, his daughter is eaten by the monster you see on the cover.

Steve Alten calls it Moby Dick meets James Bond, and I suppose that could be accurate. Young has this unquenchable thirst to kill the best - plus he's ex-Navy SEAL so there are a few scenes of him tossing knives into people's hands.

Atticus is offered to kill Kronos for Trevor Manfred (what a last name). Manfred collects trophies and this thing would be the best.

They hunt in a huge yacht called The Titan which is state-of-the-art everything: missles, torpedoes, helocopters, subs, harpoons, etc...

Then there is Andrea, National Guard, who was in love with Atticus. She is in pursuit of him.

Alten boasts about "an amazing twist" in this story and I didn't really read it as a twist. I guess I'm used to Dekker's ability to bend your mind with story twists.

Think biblical and you'll figure it out...Old Testament.

Kronos isn't as good as Steve Alten's MEG series but is still a decent underwater monster story.

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Kronos Is Fun Escapist Entertainment

Reviews for "Kronos" seem radically divided for some readers. There are questions about the use of God and a biblical parallel to the novel that unfortunately obscure the fact that it is just a fast-paced fun "monster" story. Of course, by definition of a horror or monster story, the reader is asked to suspend his/her sense of disbelief, so why not suspend it a bit more to encompass the author's intention to use a biblical creature to explain his sea serpent, Kronos? It is a lot more fun to read if the reader takes a light hearted approach and lets the story carry his/her interest.

Atticus Young, an ex-Navy Seal and current oceanographer, is dealing with the loss of his beloved wife and the growing chasm between he and his daughter, Giona. Preparing to move to a new home, Atticus takes his daughter on one last ocean dive in the Gulf of Maine so they can once again swim with the whales. Horribly, Atticus helplessly watches a giant sea monster swallow Giona whole when they get separated underwater. His grief and sense of loss drive him to focus on but one thing--revenge against the monster. Even reconnecting with a childhood love, Andrea Vincent, now a Coast Guard officer, can not dissuade his resolute mission.

Enter Trevor Manfred, a ruthless and conscienceless billionaire, who offers all the modern day killing technology of his giant yacht to Atticus for the rights to the monster's corpse after it is killed. Trevor is a monster in his own right, willing to say or promise anything that furthers his own sick desires, but possessed with the ability to cover his true nature to the prying eyes of outsiders. A wild chase ensues until Atticus closes in on the monster and makes a stunning discovery that will forever alter his plans and his life. Suddenly the evilness of some humans seem more despicable than the nature of sea predators. Atticus relies on his Seal training and teams with Andrea and a quirky "priest" to try and derail the megalomanical plans of Manfred and his criminal crewmen.

As I said, the book flows comfortably, is fast-paced, and filled with action. Although Atticus and Andrea are reasonably fleshed out characters, the rest of the players seem to have been drawn from a central casting pool. There are also some bothersome editing problems including typos and awkward splitting of words at the end of some sentences...but they never rose to the level of making this reader set the book aside. This certainly would be an entertaining beach read...although you may decide not to enter the water.

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Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime-swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep-a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient. There is no blood, no scream, no fight. Giona is swallowed whole by the massive jaws. Only Atticus remains to suffer the shame of the survivor and his inconsolable grief turns to an unquenchable thirst for revenge.

Drawn by the spectacle, Trevor Manfred, a ruthless billionaire, approaches Atticus with a proposition: Trevor will make available all the advanced technology of his heavily armed mega-yacht, the Titan, to aid Atticus in his death-quest. In return, Trevor is to receive the beast's corpse as the ultimate hunting trophy. But in the midst of the hunt, Atticus makes a terrifying discovery that changes the way he sees the ocean's creatures and begs the question: what is Kronos? The answer sets him on a new and much more deadly course.

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