Saving Cascadia

A Painful Disaster Indeed

Was this book written for 8 year olds? Nance may have all the facts regarding earthquakes and geography,but he is clueless when it comes to character development or plot continuity.I hated all the characters with a passion.Not for their flaws but for their paper doll substance.Most notably,Jennifer was phenomenally idiotic for a helicopter pilot.Nance portrayed her as materialistic and with the depth of a flooded gutter.Unbelievable.Why do men write books where the main character is a woman if they cant imagine a woman thinking beyond her nose? How was I suppose to believe the scene,for instance,near the beginning ,where Jennifer was trying to land her helipcopter at a crash scene on a highway?If she was such a pro..why did she have to keep circling around and then finally had to ask the troopers to let traffic through just so she could use the car lights as a reference? Implausable.Nance had already said flares had been put out as reference.And there were supposedly police lights everywhere.It could not have been plausably that dark. How unrealistic.The whole scene was unneccessary and annoying.There are too many scenes like this to mention here.And it's not worth it.It also seems,Nance deliberately took every opportunity to make Jennifer seem like a shallow bimbo.Despite the fact she is supposed to be highly skilled and intelligent,her mind constantly is hijacked by her love for a man who,despite his ongoing affair and promises, refuses to divorce his wife.Perhaps that is how men reading the book want her to be? No woman could read this drivel and swallow it. Furthermore,the tediously childish dialogue and skewed plot was occasionally spiced with action,not too often,but a few times.How laughable.Even men would be bored flacid. Nothing aggravates me more than bad dialogue.Especially when the main characters are supposed to be geniuses.They may be,but the author of this book couldnt write his way out of a paper bag. Overall,so boring as to make me wonder why he wrote it in the first place.A novel can only be as good as an author chooses to make it.

A page turner from the start!

This is the first book by nance that i have read. The book dragged a bit for the first few pages, but after that, it was very thrilling. This is the kind of book that I read every night, keeping me up late. Overall, this book is a thrilling read! Highly reccomended.

Fast-paced, suspenseful, a page-turner

In my opinion, in Saving Cascadia, John J. Nance has written another excellent thriller. As a professional geologist, I found his research on the Cascadia Subduction Zone to be authentic and believable. As a novelist who writes about some of the same subjects as John, both wildfire and earthquakes, I found Saving Cascadia to be a page turner - the kind you stay up with all night - fast-paced, suspenseful, brilliantly plotted, with realistically flawed characters thrown up against one challenge after another.

scary terrific thriller

US Geological Survey seismologist Doug Lam is positive that the Washington state barrier island Cascadia is on the verge of an earthquake. Still Chadwick and Noble company approved construction of Mick Walker's posh casino-hotel and convention center on the island. Feeling remorse and guilt, company engineer Diane Lacombe possesses proof that her company knew about the dangerous deadly potential of building on the fault line. However, before she can do anything with her evidence, Diane is forced to flee the Seattle area as someone wants the CD with its proof and her silenced.--- The quakes begin with the first tremor centered on the ocean floor but close enough to the coast to feel it in Puget Sound. The first major quake hammers coastal Bellingham, but help is impeded due to a thick fog. Next Cascadia Island shakes with a ferry containing a hundred guests on the way to the new facility sinking and the new hotel collapsing. Cascadia Island seems destined to become a twenty-first century Krakatoa sinking beneath the ocean while a deadly tsunami is heading to destroy much of the state potentially killing millions.--- The tragedy in Asia provides a stark reality to John J. Nance¿s action tale that with each concentric widening circle gets more and more pulse pumping. The story line is action-packed with heroes, victims, and culprits who only care to bury the truth in the rubble. Because of the recent Asiatic devastation, SAVING CASCADIA is more than just a disaster thriller as Mr. Nance makes the case that what happened in the Indian Ocean rim could occur here. This scary terrific thriller should raise alarms in that other Washington.--- Harriet Klausner

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