THE SOLUTION: Make them even more horrible! While Ellen Brody used to insult her children's homework, tells her son his PhD work is 'beneath' him and thinks it's okay to feel good about physically punishing your children to get some contact with them, the other characters are no better. THE PROBLEM: In the original novel, Jaws, the characters are so horrible that you begin to root for the shark. THE SOLUTION: The shark is killing off the Brody family, but only because he's been placed under a voodoo curse thanks to Michael Brody's recent destruction of a voodoo doctor's magic gourd. THE PROBLEM: A Great White shark follows the widow of Chief Brody to the Bahamas to continue killing her family. In an attempt to fix the many problems with the film, author Hank Searls (the 'nationwide #1 bestselling author of Jaws 2') makes things even worse, with a story that doesn't feature a shark killing anyone between pages 14 and 240, a bizarre story about the cartel and that major plot point: voodoo. Possible descendent of deceased sharks follows the man's family to the Bahamas and begins systematically killing them. Jaws: The Revenge: it's a tale as old as time. AKA The One That is Somehow Worse Than Jaws 3. Yet another Shark Week has come and gone (with twice as many fake documentaries) and this year I chose to read perhaps the most torturous shark story to date - aside from last year's read - a novelization of the film Jaws: The Revenge.

Jaws by Michael de Guzman