Return to the Center of the Earth - Center of the Earth Book 2 (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 9 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Return to the Center of the Earth is the sequel to the bestselling blockbuster To the Center of the Earth and ramps up the thrills and terror in a story that will leave listeners gasping for breath.
Mike Monroe and Jane Baxter barely survived their terrifying journey to the center of the Earth. But a burning curiosity still tormented them about the origins of the pale creatures in the stygian darkness of the caves, and why were their dreams also haunted by something huge and monstrous that seemed as old as time itself?
Now, news of a Russian military expedition has forced their hands, and also meant they must go back to a place they swore they’d never return. But this time they’re going with a team of highly skilled mercenaries and scientists to help them track the Russians and also help unlock the secrets hidden at the center of the planet.
But what they find is something that evolution created in an environment vastly different to that of the benign world of the surface. And something that waits eagerly for their return.
Customer Reviews
Beyond nonsense
Well, this book doesn’t even try to be realistic, not even remotely. One most notable example is, the remains of the character who in the previous instalment gets captured by monsters in the Caucasus mountains are found in Romania, in a different cave system across the Black Sea. And there is this plot involving Mr. Righteous Chicken meeting Ms. Noble Suicide and them together enacting this all-too-familiar love-hate relationship the bullied geeks form with the armed forces; this blatant derivativeness mixing Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, and throwing in some nearly unchanged copy-pasting from Allan Dean Foster’s novelisation of Aliens; this downright technical illiteracy (LEDs are apparently ‘collecting light’) hidden within very, very scientific-sounding babble about an ‘alternative evolution’ where evil beats good and the arthropod metabolism is enough to sustain true sentience…
At least, unlike, say, Matthew Mathers in his Cyberstorm series, this one treats the enemy as the enemy, and not as friends and partners: about the only thing I enjoyed.