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Monsters In The Clouds (The Grant Coleman Adventures Book 2) Kindle Edition
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But their plane crashes short of their destination, and the entire group faces a terrifying fight for survival. This isolated area hosts unknown animals more fearsome than they’d expected, including giant ants and flesh-eating pterosaurs.
Even worse, Katsoros’ agenda has more to it than meets the eye, and Grant soon fears that it doesn’t include all of them getting back alive. Will any expedition members survive to be rescued, or will they be devoured by the creatures indigenous peoples call the monsters in the clouds?
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 29, 2018
- File size3051 KB
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- ASIN : B079FVFLYJ
- Publisher : Severed Press (January 29, 2018)
- Publication date : January 29, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 3051 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 143 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #60,572 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #884 in Science Fiction Adventure
- #1,567 in Horror (Kindle Store)
- #2,677 in Science Fiction Adventures
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About the author

Russell R. James was raised on Long Island, New York and spent too much time watching Chiller, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Dark Shadows, despite his parents' warnings. Bookshelves full of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe didn't make things better. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Central Florida.
After flying helicopters with the U.S. Army and a career as a technical writer, he now spins twisted tales best read in daylight, including horror thrillers Dark Inspiration, Q Island, and The Playing Card Killer. He authored the Grant Coleman Adventures series starting with Cavern of the Damned and the Ranger Kathy West series starting with Claws. He resides in sunny Florida. His wife reads his work, rolls her eyes, and says "There is something seriously wrong with you."
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This one sees Grant being recruited to travel deep into the jungle, in a place rumoured to be untouched by any human. A chance photo captures a creature long thought extinct. After the events in the cavern, he is a little weary of going, but this is too good to miss. I mean, what could go wrong??
The plot of this was such fun to read! It had all the requirements for a great creature feature book. Remote, jungle setting.. check, plenty of man eating animals.. check, cannon fodder characters.. check. What more could you ask for. The pacing too was fast paced and intense. You are brought into the action right from the start and it never lets up!! I will say that the plot is very thin, but that didn't bother me at all. A book like this is read for pure entertainment factor in my opinion!!
I loved Grant. He just wants to make a name for himself and thinks this will be it for him. He is a palaeontologist and gets so giddy every time he finds something new. It was awesome. He is snarky too, which added a little laugh every so often. The rest of the characters are just there, they aren't the most fleshed out characters, but they don't need to be.
In all, this hit all the right notes for me. It was fast paced, entertaining and a blast to read. I'm really looking forward to more from Grant, especially after that ending!!
This is the first book I've listened to narrated by Chris Bellinger and I enjoyed his narration for the most part. He was clear and easy to listen to, and did have a good few tones and voices for the different characters, I was able to follow who was talking, I just felt like he read the book and didn't perform it. The right inflection at the right time can make a book, and Chris Bellinger didn't emphasise the atmosphere. There was also a few mistakes throughout, once the narrator cleared his throat and repeated himself, other times you can tell when he left off recording and came back to it. Overall though, an enjoyable listen.
I never discuss plot points in my reviews, so I'll just say that the plot races along quickly. Don't overthink it. Enjoy the ride.
Now for the nits to pick. I'm an old copy editor, and I found a few places where perhaps a different word choice might have been better or a different sentence construction or punctuation. And as a longtime devotee of matters paleontological, I'd have preferred getting the explanation for certain herbivorous dinosaurs' sudden meat-eating habits earlier than we did. At least, some speculation on the part of the scientist in the party.
Still, I enjoyed the book rather a lot. I mean, really, who can resist the thought of a rampaging ankylosaur? Not I.
Coleman's dry wit adds a touch of humor to what is otherwise a rollicking thriller, and author Russell James deftly blends actual science with pure fantasy to create some interesting monsters.
This is the second book in a trilogy, but it can be read easily as a standalone.
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Firstly, this is the second book in the series which is not made obvious on Goodreads unless you read the reviews. However we do get a brief rundown on what Grant faced in his other expedition including giant bats and mutant scorpions, without going into massive detail to spiol that whole story. It does seem ok to read them out of order though as this is a different adventure with different people with Grant and I enjoyed it without having to know about what happened on his previous trip. I've got that adventure ready to read when time allows!
Grant sees something crash into the cockpit window, killing the co-pilot and everyone finds whatever way they can to get out of the plane before it crashes into the jungle, which gets things off to a fast paced start. As they regroup on the ground, they need to construct a camp and decide on how best to proceed with the mission. Do they head to the plane to see if the pilot survived and if there is a working radio to call in about the situation? Do they go looking for where the photo of the alleged dinosaur was taken? Or do they try to get to their original landing zone to await help? With Thana in charge, she takes the decision to look for the dinosaur evidence first and then the plane but nobody could expect what they will encounter on each excursion through the deep jungle...
Monsters! It's not giving anything away to say that there are deadly pterasaurs in the jungle as they are on the front cover. I love these guys! They are intelligent, cunning and very dangerous, and don't much like having humans in their jungle, which is fun for the dinosaur loving reader like myself! The group then encounter a nasty version of giant ants that you don't want to mess with and another angry dinosaur that wants to kill them and destroy their camp. Grant is soon wishing that he had skipped this trip when they end up battling to stay alive until they find a way to get rescued.
I liked Grant as an MC because he was just a normal guy and not some kind of instant Rambo, though he becomes more resourceful as the book progresses. I think I would enjoy reading more of his adventures. Janaina is the feisty female, the only person to try and talk to Grant as the rest of the team are determined to ignore the pair as much as possible. We find out why later in the book. She is determined to ensure that any tribes they encounter have their rights put ahead of the expedition, which is why Thana doesn't much like her. I liked the kickass guys from the security team especially Jason.
Overall, this is the typical fun SF channel type creature feature that I usually enjoy and it certainly entertained me and kept me reading. Don't take it too seriously and you should enjoy it if you like this kind of thing.




I hope there will be a lot more in the series.