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Cryptid Hunters Hardcover – Bargain Price, December 27, 2004
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On a trip to find the last living dinosaur on earth, they run into big problems. They have to fight to survive out in the middle of the jungle. Throughout there journey, Grace and Marty reveal some long hidden secrets about there Uncle Travis. Brave and daring, they end up leaving the jungle safely, with the bad guys left behind.
I really liked this book because it keeps you reading. You get to some good parts in the book and you don't want to stop. This would be a great book to come out with a sequel. Another reason I really like this book is because I really like adventure books, and this book is full of adventure.
I'm on the fence as to whether not to recommend Cryptid Hunters. If you're a fan of Roland Smith, then you'll probably like Cryptid Hunters, but I think Sasquatch, one of his other books, is a lot more entertaining and has a lot more believable action. I will probably re-read Cryptid Hunters, but I will take my time getting around to it.
Then they find out that their parents have been lost in a plane crash. No, really lost, Sylvia and Timothy O'Hara's globetrotting and adventuring parent's bodies are missing from the crash site. And since their parent's bodies can't be found, and they aren't paying the tuition, Grace and Marty are eventually dismissed from the Omega Opportunity Prepatory School to be sent t to live with their new legal guardian Travis Wolfe, cryptid hunter and founder of eWolfe. Marty can't wait to go, while Grace just plain doesn't want to go.
Travis is in a rush to go on an expedition to the Congolese jungle to look for the remnants of a dinosaur species long since thought to be extinct, and he doesn't want to take the two thirteen year olds along with him. Long story short, the kids end up going, and they end up lost, through some unbelievable circumstances that could only happen in a novel, in the Congolese jungle.Read more ›
This book was like the Magic Treehouse kids all grown up and taking on Jurassic Park or Journey to the Center of the Earth. It begins with Grace and Marty at a boarding school for gifted or wealthy kids--and it's a great peek into their personalities. The author does an amazing job with presenting them as being kids like any other kids even while they're very unusual and interesting. Marty has a photographic memory, loves extreme adventures, and is curious beyond his control--and often gets into trouble for that. Grace is very, very intelligent but with a healthy dose of phobias. Their parents go missing on a photo-journalism expedition and they're sent to live with their uncle on Cryptos Island. After a few adventures on the island, the two kids are accidentally parachute-dropped into the Congo where the excitement ratchets up to the point that you only breathe every third page. Mambas, dinosaurs, and leeches... oh my.
What stood out in this book is that while the kids were constantly getting into trouble or chaos--they were intelligent and recognition was paid to when they were disobeying the adults around them. Also, I genuinely liked these kids. As an adult reading kids' books, sometimes the characters annoy me. I just want to shake them and tell them to listen to the adults around them--especially when they put themselves in danger. I really liked Grace and Marty. Their personalities were fun and real and the relationship between them was really great to see in a modern-day book.Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
If you like dinosaurs this is the book for you!This book is about two kids that loss their parents in a airplane crash.then there uncle that they did not know he existed. Read morePublished 15 months ago by Glenn David Campanella
This story reminded me quite a bit of "Jurrasic Park". I wish there would have been more focus on the monster but I enjoyed the main storyline of the kids. Read morePublished 22 months ago by 224perweek
This book moves along swiftly with many unexpected turns. The characters come alive and make Science interesting. The conflicts are alive as today's headlines. Read morePublished on May 16, 2014 by Concerned about kids