Submitted by Wendy (Aug 18, 2010)

I wanted to comment on this book around 70 pages ago, but couldn't put it down. I love it. This book is a real treat to read, interesting, fast, a real page turner. People who love the ocean, and it's inhabitants, will love this book. Land lubbers with no imagination, may not like it. Mr. Freedman, please continue to write. Thank you for the wonderful joyride.

Haven't quite finished the book yet. Started slow, got better, but seems to be going downhill. The man likes his italics, which I find gets a little tedious. A little frustrated with the blatent errors that anyone who has studied any biology would know(such as a raccoon is not a rodent!) I'll finish the book, but I'm not expecting much.

I loved this book!!! Please write more.

A page turner sure enough, a bit Dan Brownish, but utter nonsense from a scientific point of view. Who ever heard of a single type of virus that could infect just about any form of life from an alga to a mammal? One of the novel's scientists tells us that BSE is caused by a virus. The novel's premise involves an unknown abyssal species of Manta ray acquiring spectacular adaptations by usage and within a generation, and then presumably being able to pass them on to offspring. The evolutionary progress over a few months is truly staggering - the depths of the oceans to dry land! It certainly owes more to Lamarck than to Darwin, but I think even Lamarck would have had a smile at this! How about swim bladders in cartilaginous fish? As for flight; well really - pull the other one! Mr Freedman should perhaps confine himself to ghosties and ghoulies and leave science alone, or at least get a bit closer to reality and close the credibility gap. Having said all that, it is fairly entertaining bunkum and I take my hat off to anyone who can write a novel of this length and get it published. Worth a read if you have nothing better to do and you forget what you ever learned at school.

Could not agree more with Arthur Bangs. Natural selection is poorly written and poorly researched. The idea of a species adapting to a completely new environment within a single generation shows a total lack of understanding of evolutionary processes. And this in a novel titled natural selection.