The Land Below

Meikle has always been one of my favorite authors and this book is perfect testament as to why. While I'll admit, I was expecting a bit more of a Hollow Earth adventure, Willie Meikle has woven together something much more unexpected. The possibilities of a well-known legend (I won't spoil it here). And its climax brought memories to mind of another favorite tale of mine, other than those written by Verne or Doyle. All in all, a most satisfying tale! Loved it!

Two brothers and a soldier they hired follow a treasure map promising riches and because they are in a William Meikle story they, of course, end up in a lost world full of dinosaurs.

The characters are likable enough and the adventure has some cool things going for it such as using different terminology for the dinosaurs because of the time period this takes place.

There's not much depth or anything else going on though and the plot is mainly just the group running from one place to another.

It's really just a quickly done action-adventure story that has been done many times before already. Enjoyable, but only because I like the author.