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Task Force E: The Reservation
Twenty years ago, five young men enlisted in a top-secret military experiment claiming to enhance elite capabilities. Instead, they got cryptids! Bigfoot, lake monsters, chupacabras and more. For a decade, Task Force E took down these dangerous creatures until a tragic accident forced the team to disband.
Now, the U.S. military is knocking on their door again. A deranged billionaire has created a reservation for cryptids, and the military smells trouble. Task Force E, with their unrivaled discipline, determination, and tactical brilliance, reunites for another wild ride. Hunting cryptids is their expertise. They’re just not that good at following the rules.
Now, the U.S. military is knocking on their door again. A deranged billionaire has created a reservation for cryptids, and the military smells trouble. Task Force E, with their unrivaled discipline, determination, and tactical brilliance, reunites for another wild ride. Hunting cryptids is their expertise. They’re just not that good at following the rules.
121 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2024
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
June 2, 2024
I picked this up through Kindle Unlimited because I love a good special forces vs cryptid story and boy was I disappointed.
The team has been disbanded when the story begins but don't ask why, we're never told. Oh, and the team, don't ask too much about them beyond their names and where they are, we don't get much in the way of background for them as individuals or as a team either, just that they were all given some kind of special serum that gives them heightened senses and abilities although what kind of heightened senses and abilities is rather vague.
A billionaire has decided to build a preserve in Alaska for cryptids because apparently cryptids are all over the place in this world and everyone knows about them but we, regular people, just kind of forget about them once we have stopped seeing them. No further explanation is given for their existence.
Anyway, the team is reassembled by the government to go in and inspect this preserve because the crazy billionaire wants the team to be his game wardens or something, whatever the case may be they have a legitimate reason to be there so they go. Their actual reason for going is to find the daughter of a senator that went to work there and hasn't been heard from since.
They find her and just when things look like they are about to pick up the book ends. Full stop. No fire fight, no chase, no escape, just a line of dialogue about hearing the bad guys coming and that's it. About 120 pages of nothing happening.
Now, I have read in reviews that Task Force E are in other short story collections and that's fine, just let me know that when I go into a novel that is supposed to be about just them. I took this as the Force's first adventure and was very disappointed because it isn't.
Skip this one.
The team has been disbanded when the story begins but don't ask why, we're never told. Oh, and the team, don't ask too much about them beyond their names and where they are, we don't get much in the way of background for them as individuals or as a team either, just that they were all given some kind of special serum that gives them heightened senses and abilities although what kind of heightened senses and abilities is rather vague.
A billionaire has decided to build a preserve in Alaska for cryptids because apparently cryptids are all over the place in this world and everyone knows about them but we, regular people, just kind of forget about them once we have stopped seeing them. No further explanation is given for their existence.
Anyway, the team is reassembled by the government to go in and inspect this preserve because the crazy billionaire wants the team to be his game wardens or something, whatever the case may be they have a legitimate reason to be there so they go. Their actual reason for going is to find the daughter of a senator that went to work there and hasn't been heard from since.
They find her and just when things look like they are about to pick up the book ends. Full stop. No fire fight, no chase, no escape, just a line of dialogue about hearing the bad guys coming and that's it. About 120 pages of nothing happening.
Now, I have read in reviews that Task Force E are in other short story collections and that's fine, just let me know that when I go into a novel that is supposed to be about just them. I took this as the Force's first adventure and was very disappointed because it isn't.
Skip this one.
April 22, 2024
Talk about a cliffhanger!!
I think the story has a ton of potential but its early ... The story just cuts off right when the bad guys are showing up. If it continues to develop the plot and answers all the questions this book plants in your mind, then this will be a good series. So far, the characters are interesting. Ill definitely read the next book when it comes out.
I think the story has a ton of potential but its early ... The story just cuts off right when the bad guys are showing up. If it continues to develop the plot and answers all the questions this book plants in your mind, then this will be a good series. So far, the characters are interesting. Ill definitely read the next book when it comes out.
February 25, 2024
Entertaining
The story is a little choppy and the actions of the main characters are almost Deus ex machina in function but not bad for a quick read.
The story is a little choppy and the actions of the main characters are almost Deus ex machina in function but not bad for a quick read.
April 5, 2024
Decently written pulp adventure, but just when the story seems about the kick into high gear, it just stops....
June 7, 2024
What kind of ending
The story grabbed attention was well written, and I was just beginning to appreciate the characters when it was over. No end in site. Aaarrrggghh
The story grabbed attention was well written, and I was just beginning to appreciate the characters when it was over. No end in site. Aaarrrggghh
June 14, 2024
I really wanted to give this more stars, but it's more like some middle chapters, than a book with a beginning, a middle and an end.
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