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Bermuda Triangle | Rating | |
| C | |||
| Greg Donegan | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| Atlantis | Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, Devil's Sea, Atlantis Gate | ||
Mankind won a narrow victory against the Shadow at the end of the last book. The world's major governments are now awake to the threat from the sixteen gates scattered around the world. And when, mere hours (or possibly a few days, it wasn't quite clear to me) after the victory, a nuclear missile that had been captured by the Shadow bursts out of the Bermuda Triangle gate to explode in the mid-Atlantic trench, the fight begins anew. Humanity needs to find the weapon that had been hinted at in the end of the last book before the Shadow does something nasty with Earth's plate tectonics.
The plot is split into two parts. The first is the search for the Shield, and trying to discover just what it is they are looking for. The other part is a very similar quest undertaken in 999 AD by a viking warrior. To make the parallels even more obvious, the author althernates tales, telling a chapter in one, then a chapter in the other, then returning. The problem with this, though, is obvious: we know the one in the past will succeed, because the world didn't end. By implication, the search in the present will succeed. Also, since the quests are so similar, it is essentially one story but twice as long as it needs to be.
The other major problem is that the first quarter or so of the book, those parts in the present time at least, is taken up by relating what happened in book one. A summary is nice, but he goes into a lot of detail. The epilogue is repeated nearly word for word at the start. Continuity is a good thing, true, but that was just plain excessive.
The last problem, that the public surely must be getting some idea that something major is going on, is entirely glossed over. It'd have been nice to have details of a news conference and the public's reaction to the news they are being invaded from another dimension. It's an annoyance that you won't really notice unless you think about it, though.
Still, the book is worth reading, especially if you liked the first. Some questions do get answered, though there are others raised in their place. It'll help tell the story, if not as well as it could have.
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