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The Tiger Warrior by David Gibbins
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I mean, it's pretty good. I finished it.

This was a thrift store buy. I sometimes find new authors to love at the dollar store or the thrift store, so I took a chance on this one. I didn't hate it. And I can see that some might like this series. I didn't, though, and I won't be trying more.

There is some excellent research here. No question. Good stuff on diving, guns, archaeology, and history. And there are a few scenes--10 pages here, 10 pages there--that are really fun to read. Good action. But not enough.

Most of the book is long conversations filling in backstory and exposition. It's like a series of lectures between widely-spaced action scenes. The funny thing is, it's actually very readable, even with paragraph-long speeches, one after the other. I got through it okay. I can totally see folks on an airplane reading this. But for me, there wasn't enough fun to make it worth hundreds of pages of that.

I'm not here to bury the book. It's okay. Some people will like it. I learned some things. Maybe that's good enough.

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