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    Dragon's Triangle
    Dragon's Triangle
    Dragon's Triangle
    Audiobook14 hours

    Dragon's Triangle

    Written by Christine Kling

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Maggie Riley has settled into her new life in Thailand, working aboard her sailboat and doing her best to leave the past behind. When she receives a letter from a World War II vet claiming to have served with her grandfather who went missing in action, Riley is once again pulled into the intrigue that tore her family apart and led to the disappearance of her former search partner—and the love of her life.

    Armed with the secret code her grandfather left behind, Riley must head to the Philippines to hunt for a mysterious shipwreck, uncover the truth of Yamashita’s gold, and find the answers to old questions about her own family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 8, 2014
    ISBN9781491529485
    Dragon's Triangle
    Author

    Christine Kling

    Christine Kling was born in Missoula, Montana, but raised in Southern California, which meant she developed a love for beaches and boating at an early age. After writing for sailing magazines for many years, Christine turned to writing fiction, publishing several thrillers about sailing. She later became an English professor at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, but retired in 2011; she now lives aboard her thirty-three-foot boat, Talespinner, and goes wherever the wind—and free Wi-Fi—may take her.

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    • 3/5
      Not a bad book, but also not a good one. I stopped halfway through, I confess, because I found myself just not interested. The characters are flaky, and the story jumps from place to pace, time to time, which required way more attention than I was willing to give.
    • 4/5
      The author has worked on boats for decades and it shows in this South Seas thriller. Just like the author, the heroine lives on her sailboat. She lost her partner in a deep sea treasure hunt in a previous installment, but they are reunited in this adventure. There is lots of action, sea battles and a poison dart blowing island native. My thanks to the author and Goodreads for a complimentary copy.
    • 2/5
      An adventure story of treasure hunting for pacific gold hidden by the Japanese during WWII. Characters are all cliche, they would be even boring if they didn't surprise you with their stupidity. Story line was pretty much predictable. Even the one sex scene was told as though Kling felt she was titillating us while instead I was torn between yawn and laughing at its forced telling. I should give it just one star but for some reason I did read it through and there were a few pages now and then that captured me, so it gets two stars.
    • 2/5
      Dragon's Triangle by Christine Kling was my Kindle First choice for May. It was fast paced but the plot was cliched and convoluted and the character development distinctly lacking.
    • 2/5
      The book is a sequel. It tries really hard to be free-standing with quick expositions on the past events leading to this story. But it fails. Those passage stick out awkwardly.According to her bio, the author has spent more than 30 years messing with boats and it shows in the book. The portions of the book involving boats and water voyage are much better than the terrestrial parts of the story.
    • 2/5
      This book did not work for me at all. My complaints are many:First, there is a complete lack of character development. I had no idea who these character were or what drove their behavior. We have a lot of viewpoint characters, which likely contributes to this problem. We don't go deep into any character, but instead jump endlessly from one to another.The characters' behavior often felt contrived, silly, and unrealistic. I don't want to give spoilers, so I'll just say that Riley's reactions to certain situations had me rolling my eyes. The "bad guys" were cardboard stereotypes with a network of similar stereotypical bad guys. The plot was overly complicated, convoluted, and often far too convenient. There were a lot of near captures, escapes, running away, and chasing. Whenever one lost another, some other character would step in and conveniently give away the new location for no plausible reason. This didn't take place within a small town or even large city, but across countries and oceans. Yet there seemed no safe place to hide.This is really two stories in one, with a back-and-forth switch to an event unraveling during the war in 1945. This historical aspect is really the only part I enjoyed. That being said, I think it was too much. While I respect the author's ambition, this was not simple flashbacks in order to provide history. This was a complete novel on its own, with its own characters, motivations, and plot. Even though the issues from the past entered into the present day story, the transitions felt disjointed, as if I was reading a historical novel at one moment and a modern adventure the next.I have no doubt that the author put a lot of time and effort into researching this story. And the narrative style of her writing is well done and easy to read. I just could not find anything more than that to appreciate about this book.