It is a HUGE pet peeve of mine.ĭani wasn’t the only problem in the Taylor house. I see it happen more with girls and it is really frustrating. I’m not saying that there is no teen that is immature and angsty, I’m just saying that it is so over used it is annoying and ridiculously. So many of them fall in to the stereotypical teen bullshit trope of being immature and angsty. I’ve talked in the past about why I hate reading a book with teen characters. Seriously, it felt like the majority of the book was just Dani and Jonas yelling at each other and Dani doing the exact opposite of whatever Jonas said regardless of how stupid it was. I get that she is the rebellious teen daughter and she is fighting the man and blah blah blah, but she was SO unlikable!! When you already have a bunch of kinda unlikable characters in your series, you don’t add more! I could have over looked how annoying she was if she hadn’t had such a huge role in the book. And on that note….ĭani, Jonas and Terry’s teenage daughter, was annoying AF! Such a total brat! Through the whole book I just wanted to repeatedly slap her with a dead fish. I will admit that I might be biased though, because I don’t like children / teen characters in the first place, so… there you go. But a majority of the time it just makes me cringe. Not saying there aren’t exceptions sometimes, there are. I definitely feel that it is a jump the shark moment. I, for one, can’t stand when children are added to a series. But to most it just feels like the series has run out of ideas and brings out a cliched story trope. There are a few people who argue it is a good thing to have children introduced because it keeps the series fresh. Ok, first, I want to start of with this: When children are added to an established series, it is universally considered a “jump the shark” (no pun intended) moment. A Forge Book published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2004. Meg: Primal Waters ( Meg # 3) by Steve Alten. And before this voyage is over, Jonas will again come face to face with the most dangerous creature ever to stalk the Earth. But somewhere behind the scenes, someone is pulling some dangerous strings.

But his life changes altogether when he takes a job doing the color commentary for Daredevils, a new television survival series that pits two teams of crazy adventure seekers against one another while sailing in the South Pacific. He is now a middle-aged father of two, and feels overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. Eighteen years have passed since Jonas Taylor last crossed paths with carcharodon Megalodon.

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