By Taylor Anderson
Look, I'd just finished a very big book, and was eyeing up another fairly substantial tome, and wanted something quick and mindless. And was not disappointed.
Shortly after Pearl Harbour, a pair of beat up US destroyers running from the Japanese encounter some magic weather that transports them to an alternate universe where the dominant species is evolved cannibal velociraptors, whose preferred prey is sentient ocean going lemurs.
Soon the USN-Lemur alliance is busy building cannon, oil refineries and the like in the hope of turning back the unstoppable tide of lizards, preferably before they capture the more beat up destroyer, complete with idiot mutinous captain and so work out how to build steel ships and artillery. In other news, will the square jawed captain get off with the headstrong nurse? Will the...
Oh look, I really don't care. The characterisation is minimal, the sea battles are a foregone conclusion.
As I said, I was looking for something plenty mindless, and have no cause for complaint on that score.
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