The Aquarium [Kindle Edition]

Kenneth Eng (Author)

Book Description

Water is frightening. You can drown in it, get boiled in it, freeze in it – or even worse, get eaten in it.

Trevor Legends is one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s top agents. However, one day, he is assigned a mission to investigate a strange psychic signal emanating from a wasteland. There, he and a team discover the existence of an elaborate underwater aquarium larger than an entire city. At first, he attempts to study it, but before he can, he is attacked by strange creatures – ghostly fish that can pass through walls, prehistoric creatures long thought to be extinct, gargantuan sharks, and twisted dolphins with human intelligence. What was once a scientific expedition soon turns into a fight for his life. However, there is more to the aquarium than meets the eye, for in its depths lies a secret that mankind is not prepared to see.

Product Details

• File Size: 287 KB
• Print Length: 126 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007J3T9OY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,606 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Great book for ??? August 21, 2012

By C5 Dave

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Cant' say enough about this author and book. ENOUGH ALREADY !!! There, I said it. Pick the worst review about this book that you've read and then drop it another 2 stars. Idiot CIA agents, hundreds of mutant fish and talking dolphins all trying to kill our heroic agents. Arms and legs (yes, and a breast) being ripped off and our tough agents keep fighting on. If I could burn this book I would, but it's on my Kindle. Maybe I can find some way of printing it out and then burning it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Is there a rating less than 1 star? August 1, 2012

By Eddie

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I suspect the author of this book is about 14 years old and has been forced to eat too much fish in his lifetime. I've read some pretty horrid books courtesy of Kindle and self publishing, but this thing makes Ice Gorilla look like a Michael Crichton novel. It's silly, lurid, and has a detachment from reality that is startling. In this book all CIA work is combat, most of the characters are psychotic Asians with Western names, people get body parts blown off and continue to talk, fight etc. Nothing cheesy or exploitative is spared. The writing style is hectic, hard to follow and just generally unpleasant. I kept having to re-read sections to follow what was happening. The characters are awful and worse, I don't think it's intentional. I think these guys are the author's version of cool. When you read some of the homophobia in the book it seems to be the author speaking not the book's characters. Leeches infected with AIDS??? C'mon, give me a break.

If I was 12 I'd read the really nasty parts to my friends while we all laughed. My son is 17 and after I read him a few passages from the book he said "sounds like something one of the creepy Emo kids at school would write - did you pay for that?".

So there you have it.

I'm not 12 and life's too short to read garbage like this. I tried to finish it, I really did. Heck I finished Ice Gorilla. I should get an award for that. I could not finish this. I want the last two hours of my life back.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Just awful September 26, 2012

By indimew

Format:Kindle Edition

This book is absolutely awful. The characters are thrown together, the story has potential but is just rushed through and the constant confusion of the story makes me ashamed I spent money to read this on my kindle. Do not buy it or read it. The kindle version even has uncorrected errors in it. Whoever proofread the story underlined words and crossed out words that needed to be fixed, and they weren't! If an author doesn't put enough effort into their story to correct mistakes, then you shouldn't put forth effort to read it. Now how can I get a refund?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I would rather drown! October 2, 2012

By Ian J. Vullo

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

2005 I read Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate, book that gained infamy because of "Asian Supremacist" Kenneth Eng. The book itself was a barely cohesive mess, with world building that pushed my suspension of disbelief and in cases broke it. A filled with two dimensional characters that are forgettable.

Its been seven years since his last book was published. Has he improved in that time? Sadly no.

The story has a setting that would make Simon R. Green proud. Unlike Simon R. Green, Eng can't pull it off. The plot is that C.I.A picks up a large Psychic Energy Reading, and a team is sent to investigate. The agents that are sent are:

Trevor Legends: Who is pretty much the Mary-Sue of this story. I mean he has so little flaws its borderline ridiculous.

Xed Kang: A stereotypical butch lesbian, which only exists just to be a foil to Trevor.

Braxton Song: The big guy that "graduated" Ivy League. He is only intelligent when the plot requires him to be. Other wise for all intents and purposes he's just a dumb brute.

Adolf Truong: An unstable agent that fails to be interesting.

Rayner Yamazaki: Only exists just to give the mission briefing and, be first one to die.

Chandler Landsman: He just serves to be a plot device that screws up the mission. Later at the end he proves to be the Tv tropes definition of "to dumb to live."
As they are investigating the area, they find a hidden trap door, which they enter into the titular aquarium. That is filled with mutant fish that all want to kill them. The rest of the ebook is the agents fighting and trying to escape the said aquarium.

There are moments in this book that made me say in this book that made me say, "Are you kidding me!..." Such as leeches that when they bite you are infected with the AIDS virus, not some sort of venom or toxin. People's limbs are torn off and there are still capable of fighting and not bleeding to death. The C.I.A can give someone a medieval broadsword. And talking dolphins, Are you kidding me.
The ebook's prose is awful, being both clunky and shows it being amateur. The dialog is even worse and doesn't even sound like anything anyone would say. There are a few bad lines that are both stilted and groan-worthy!

What make this even worse is that's only 78% of the ebook the other 12% is some philosophical mumbo-jumbo that I don't care about. I also doubt that anyone would care about it ether. Because, if anyone wanted to read philosophy why are they reading the ebook with psychic crystals and mutant fish?

I'm not going to call this ebook crap because, that would be an insult to crap! I'd like to throw it ageist the wall but since this is an ebook so it only would wreck my kindle, (and I just go this replaced!) I'll just say this: for $2.99 it's still felt like I paid too much! Read more ›

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Totally unrealistic, even for a cheap horror thriller! December 31, 2012

By D. A. Nelson

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Missing limbs? No problem, you can still run, jump and skip. Cut in half? Just a flesh wound, you can still swim and talk to your friends. So much potential but so disappointing!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A waste of a good idea September 21, 2012

By erika ballard

Format:Kindle Edition

Page turning suspense around every corner? Check. Creepy monsters ready to rip you apart? Check. Heros with more balls (and boobs) than brains? Check. A well thought out and written plot? Sorry but no. Normally I would be upset that a book is so short, but in the case of this one I can make an exception. It's a shame the author took a great concept and butchered it. Now I know what a bad acid trip feels like. Note to self- try the sample before buying the book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars just go worse December 2, 2012

By Carole Gilliver

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I say to myself every time, its only $2.99 so how bad can it be... This is now top of my bad kindle books. Poorly written and lacking any sense whatsoever. I don't mind graphic content when its logical, but stingrays in the guys anus for heavens sake. I am sure I will one day purchase another one by this auther just to see if perhaps this was his first and might get better!