Book Review Of TENTACLES BY : ROLAND SMITH

Marty and his friends are setting sail to find one of the most fearsome sea beasts of them all, the giant squid. However, Noah Blackwood an evil but popular scientist tries to sabotage their mission. Can they capture the giant squid in time? And what about the dinosaurs below deck?

Tentacles takes place in the sea by a flooded canyon. The story unfolds on a ship that is on a mission to find a giant squid, also known as Architeuthis. This ship, the Coelacanth, has a bad past with pirates.

The story is about cousins Marty O’Hara, a cook, bookworm Grace Wolfe and Grace’s father Wolfe. Other accomplices are Laura Lee, Wolfe’s sweetheart, Luther, Marty’s orange-headed friend, Former Air Force officer Phil and Bertha Bishop, his wife who knows 100 ways to kill somebody with her bare hands. Together they face foes such as the smuggler Noah Blackwood, Grace’s evil grandfather, and Butch McCall his fierce henchman.

My thoughts are that the story is realistic, but still mysterious and fun. It is also fun when you hear a little bit about a certain characters past. However, some parts of the story remain rather secretive, but are also kind of revealed. I think my favorite part would have to be when they were trying to disarm the bombs and couldn’t find the last one and found out a certain primate had it.