About the AuthorKurt Anderson has held jobs as a roofer, machine operator, toxicologist, and environmental scientist.A regular contributor to outdoor magazines, Anderson spends his free time in the woods and on the water, hunting, fishing, 'shrooming, wild ricing, tapping maple trees, and trying--usually in vain--to repair haying equipment on his ranch.He lives in northern Minnesota with his wife and two sons.Devour is his first novel. how can i get kindle books for free Devour
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A 3.5-star thriller of humans and monstersBy Matthew A. BilleKurt Anderson's Devour is a bit unusual for a crypto-creature novel. Anderson spends a great deal of time on his humans. Indeed, there are times when his pliosaur is off screen for whole chapters, mentioned only as a looming shadow over the human drama that occurs on several vessels, but mainly on a crippled gambling-excursion ship. In this novel, pliosaurs have always been with us, sparking occasional sea-serpent reports, They have long lives, hibernate in the ice, and are a bit too big and smart for what we know of such animals, but this is fiction, and Anderson doesn't take the inventiveness further than is necessary for the story. He clearly knows a lot about ships and boats: he also knows a lot about high-stakes private gambling, an interesting sidelight. His people are deeply drawn, 3D characters, which is greatly appreciated: no one is here just as pliosaur fodder. The human drama does get drawn-out at times, and some characters are not consistent (the captain of the gambling ship in particular). Anderson has a big cast engaged in a variety of schemes and sometimes you can forget who is siding with who.Overall, though, this is one tension-filled cruise. Humans play out their dramas on a ship that is slowly sinking, as a monster nudges it, picks off people foolish enough to get near the rail, and makes the chances for survival and rescue look increasingly bleak. Devour is a worthy addition to the sea-monster thriller genre.- Matt Bille, author, The Dolmen (Wolfsinger, 2014 ([...])2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good readBy Kindle CustomerIt held my interest. I wasn't expecting high literature just entertainment and to me it was entertaining. Are there things that might be done better? Aren't there always? But there was nothing that detracted me from enjoying a good monster yarn.5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Very EnjoyableBy M. GaborThere's a sea monster out in the ocean, something that should, by all rights, not be alive today. A cruise boat was chartered for a special purpose which we don't find out until towards the end of the book. We meet all kinds of people that we care about, the fishing boat captain, the card game hostess, even the conniving snake who put the special card game together and thinks he's the one holding all the aces. The author puts these people into impossible situations and then manages to get most of them free. That's good book plotting. As usual with ebooks, there are some typos, but we can overcome them by rereading the sentence and filling in the blanks. All in all, it's worth the money.