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Thrash And Respect For The Genre

By Cynthia Sax on July 3, 2026

Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Thrash, a fun and quite gory shark movie, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this shark and natural disaster movie, you might wish to skip this post.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I recently watched Thrash, a shark-as-a-danger movie set during a natural disaster, and we both enjoyed it.

It was clear to us that the people involved in Thrash greatly enjoyed both shark movies and disaster movies also.

There were visual and vocal nods to other movies in those genres. Shark Week was mentioned. The flooding scenes were awesome and were echoes of flooding scenes in other disaster movies.

There was a Great White as the hero scene that had me cheering. It reminded me of the T-Rex as the hero scene in Jurassic Park.

Thrash was a celebration of the two genres of movies and I felt the love. I think other viewers did too. It was a joy to experience.

If you’re writing a romance novel, don’t be afraid to show your love for the genre.

Your readers love the genre also. That’s why we’re reading in it.

(smiles)

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Meg 2: The Trench And Expectations

By Cynthia Sax on April 12, 2024

Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Meg 2: The Trench and will contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this fun fantastical movie, you might wish to skip this post.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I recently watched Meg 2: The Trench and we both really enjoyed it. It was fun and action-packed and a bit silly in parts.

But that was great because all that was expected.

Meg 2: The Trench is an example of how to give people what they expect.

We expected huge sharks. We got huge sharks. Plural.

We expected Jason Statham in an action role. We got Jason Statham in an action-packed role.

There were the expected bad jokes and comradery and all of the beloved characters survived.

The visuals were awesome. The antics were over the top.

And there were DINOSAURS. Because the creators knew the viewers who love giant sharks also love dinosaurs.

Meg 2: The Trench was fun and that was exactly what we wanted in a movie.

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Strike Zone

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.

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While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.

The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

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Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a cyborg warrior with a finely honed sense of honor, a human support being taking on her first dangerous mission, and an evil that threatens everyone in existence.

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