Wild Ocean: A Coastal Caribbean Adventure (Tyson Wild Thriller Book 1)

First time reading this author. Liked the introduction into the main character, Tyson Wild. As a member of a secret agency working for the Government, his description seems a little laid back, but once the story gets rolling, the reader begins to understand his tough guy abilities. This story is loaded with action start to finish, amateurish bad guys and a very secretive reason for all the surrounding murders.

Pretty good adventure story. Lots of action well described. Easy to imagine everything that was going on. Nice quick beach book. Enjoyable.

I started this series a month ago while recovering from surgery. I'm currently on book 9! I just think they are a lot of fun. They're a quick read and feel like episodes of a TV series. The characters are multi-faceted and, maybe a bit over-the-top, but that's what makes it fun. I look forward to reading the rest.

I have read a few books of the Tyson Wild series by Tripp Ellis and enjoyed them. You may not. Mr. Ellis is not a great Florida author, like Ernest Hemingway; he isn’t even a good Florida author when compared to modern-day Florida authors such as John McDonald, Wayne Stinnett, and A.J. Stewart. However, he is an enjoyable author if you can put up with his unusual style. He apparently doesn’t pay someone to edit his manuscripts. I get the sense that he doesn’t read them more than once himself. I suspect he depends on Microsoft Word to check his spelling, grammar, and punctuation. That’s bad enough, but he apparently uses an older version of Word. The newest version wouldn’t let him get away with some of the stuff. His books are examples of self-published authors with minimal writing skills publishing books that would never be published otherwise. His books are usually between two hundred and two hundred fifty pages according to Amazon, which is bad enough, but he double-spaces everything! Instead of indenting a new paragraph, he double-spaces. Sometimes he breaks up a paragraph with a couple of double-spaces. He double-spaces after every quote by every character. He will create a new chapter in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason other than to create more white space. White space may consume almost fifty percent of the book’s length. His characters use the F-word much too often. I don’t mind if an author uses the F-word a few times for shock effect but using it as much as he does is lazy writing. All the women are beautiful, their bodies perfect, and are anxious to jump into bed with Wild, who is just as anxious to jump into bed with them. The bedroom scenes last too long and are much too frequent for such a thin story. Sometimes I think the author writes the bedroom scenes with one hand on his keyboard while the other is occupied elsewhere. Sanford, Connelly, Crais, and Child usually publish a book once each year in time for the Christmas season. Currently, Mr. Ellis is publishing one a month! The price he charges for his novels is fair for an unknown self-published author, but these aren’t really novels. Calling them novellas would be more appropriate. A fitting classification might be adult serial comic books. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news. If you can get past all the stuff I’ve mentioned above, these books are an enjoyable three-hour read if you’re heading to the beach or airport. He has developed an interesting cast of characters, creates an interesting plot, and brings it to a satisfactory conclusion. I stopped reading after a few books when I got bored with the repetitive plot. There will be lots of subplots still hanging around from one book to another as well, so get used to that. Bottom line: It’s all right to read a few Tyson Wild books; just don’t admit it to your friends.

Good and quick read looking forward to the next book and rest of the series. 5 more words are required

Excellent for wrapping fish. Our hero is burned within an inch of his life, shot multiple times, but he has nano tube carbon fiber body armor, wakes up in the hospital bed, escapes being killed by multiple operatives, jumps in a cab and runs away. All in just a few pages. The next 150 pages gets no better, but on the plus side, the whole mess is an easy 45 minute read, even if your lips move. His friends are all named Butch or Tex and are all ex- CIA with access to everything, of course there's a shady woman named Isabella and an Italian monster named Tony. In 2025, this book could easily have been cloned by a free AI model. The prompt would be " write me a cliche-filled book full of cardboard cutout characters and well used crime novel tropes, sprinkle in some shop-worn tough guy dialogue, some random violence and gunplay, and an escape that strains the limits of credulity. Don't bother with character development, emotional impact, or sense of place. Keep it as shallow as a kiddie pool, wrap it up in 40k words, and send it to my self-publisher" voilà!

Amazing! As always. Tripp Ellis is a rockstar and his adventures never fail to entertain!

Easy to read, good story about a former spy returning to the keys and the excitement he encounters.