If you don’t like details and indepth explanations, then you might want to rethink reading Cryptid. It does get bogged down in the details for us action oriented readers, but I am still so curious about the outcome between the cryptids and the humans, that I must read on.
I took a lot of notes, but will be winging it instead.
The characters….well, they are not your ‘normal’ people and I’m not just talking about the cryptids and crypto humans. They need human blood, so you could call them vampires. Even the humans are off the charts. Smart doesn’t begin to cover the brilliance of the characters, but they definitely lack skills in the sociability department. There are sociopaths and sadists hidden amongst them. Is there more to them than that? Of course. Their minds take them, and the rest of us, to places we would never reach without them.
I do like books that include Earth’s ecology and those that want it to be there for future generations. But the cryptids, at least some of them, want more. They want it all.
I am still trying to figure out how much to tell without spoiling anything and how to rate Cryptids. To me, that is the problem with a series that must be read to the end. It can take a long time to get there, Sometimes I had to make myself power through the long explanations of things I didn’t understand (think Big Bang theory). Just because I don’t understand, doesn’t mean I can’t pick up the necessary bits and pieces to tell the story. Then, there were the times when I felt like racing through the pages because…
Uh uh uh, I’m not saying.
I have only finished the first trilogy. Will I be reading the next one? You bet. I gotta know.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Cryptid Discovery by Douglas E & Jacob A Roff.
3 Stars
massive American DataLab Project, had just returned to his home in
Barrows Bay, British Columbia from Tucson, Arizona. He had spent the
better part of the past month working on a pro bono assignment for
his father’s friend Peter Berg, Regional Director of the FBI,
working out of the Seattle field office. His favor for the FBI was to
secure the mother lode and Holy Grail of the FBI’s Joint Organized
Crime Task Force that Berg believed he had accidentally stumbled
upon. Mere fortuity had led him to what he thought was fifty years or
more of Mafia financial books and records detailing organized
criminality from Seattle to Miami and all points in between.
Director Berg was looking for. It had been a small clerical error
made by a temp transposing a letter or two in a last name that led
Adam St. James to his incredible discovery. But this discovery was
too incredible, too massive to even contemplate as being authentic.
Adam himself did not believe it could be true. Would he be proven
correct or was the truth too immeasurably stranger than fiction?
that he had fortuitously confirmed the existence of the cryptid of
all cryptids. Had Adam found scientific and verifiable proof of the
existence of an unknown species of creatures capable of transforming
to human form or was this some immense practical joke designed to
annoy and embarrass him and his father, noted forensic archeologist
and author, Edward St. James?
humanity?
Discovery chronicles the discovery of the Gens Collective, ancient
and primal beings previously unknown to humanity but living among
mankind as crypto humans.
in the Cryptid Trilogy as mankind faces off against an unknown
species bent on its total destruction as the dominant species on the
planet.
understand and control them. How will this saga end?
wife, Misti Alarcon, Adam St. James continues his investigation into
the Gens Collective and its rival rebel faction, the Black Shirts.
Both factions seek the demise of homo sapiens and have developed the
means to destroy humanity in what they call the Great Cull. And they
seek to destroy each other.
Collective, he is met with deceit and duplicity at every turn. The
Gens Collective desperately seeks to find Adam, who they call the
Human, and recover their lost Library.
group of colleagues and finds his new abilities are more powerful and
frightening than he could possibly imagine. Can he control his powers
or will they be his undoing?
renowned NSA computer hacker, and the equally mysterious and lethal
Nocera “Noki” Lee, Adam confronts his adversaries uncovering the
depth and breadth of the plot against humanity. Can they succeed?
Only Adam holds the key to prevent unleashing total
annihilation.
Gens Collective to spark a war between the Gens and humanity he
believes will eliminate the Gens species on the planet. Does the
Vatican hold the answers Adam seeks? Which side will the Vatican
choose and why?
events pit friend against friend, family against family, and species
against species. Nothing is as it appears to be, and new discoveries
shed light upon old grievances.
means to destroy the rival Gens Collective and humanity, but will
they unleash the devastation? Can they? What explosive secrets does
Saldana hide that could destroy her leadership and shift the balance
of power back to her rival, Paulo Fortizi of the Gens Collective.
time to prevent genocide on a global scale. Can Adam stop the
impending holocaust? Can anyone?
forces array against Adam and his teams trying to prevent the
conflagration that could signal the demise of intelligent life on the
planet.
thought to exist, entertain the reader throughout the novel. New mind
journeys and psychic powers begin to reveal themselves as both the
savior and destructor of humanity.
Canada. Citizen of the US and Canada. Worked for US and Canadian
governments as well as a long career in finance and trade finance. I
live in Latin America between countries on and off. I am retired and
now write novels full time.
Cryptid Trilogy. I speak Spanish fluently.
more novels that are in various stages of completion, will be
finished in 2018 but will not be published until 2019.
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I do like the creepy covers especially the candle hands!
I know. That’s what won me over and I had to read it.
Deep descriptions and slower paced stories are okay with me. Sometimes I’m in the mood for something with a meatier feeling. The three creepy figures on the first cover . . . I wouldn’t want to run into them on a dark night!
Yeah, I have to be in the mood for it. I am hoping I get into the second trilogy more. I do love creepy covers.
If you liked these, I know I would!
I have a feeling there will be more action in the next trilogy and I look forward to learning the outcome.
Booged down can get boring, but I don’t mind a lot of info if it’s interesting and pertains to the story.
Yes, it does pertain to the story and that’s why I powered through the slow parts and will be moving on to the second trilogy.
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That cover there is so creepy-good!
That’s what lured me in.