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Prey by Alexander Payne, Scott Ciencin, Jim Taylor

bybookandbone's review

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3.0

I love the ideas in this book but there are too many of them for such a short book.
I think the major mistake was to have Eric return, maybe Grant too (it's pretty against his character). However, I LOVE the idea of a new ranger station on site B. It starts the bridge between the Jurassic Parks and Jurassic World. The ranger station works very well until an outside force causes problems, again, love this idea.
A group of mostly teens lead by a rich 18 year old who wants to take videos of the dinosaurs? Yes please. I especially liked that the 18 year old was the villain, happy to watch his brother die all for the fame.

However, there's too much changing POVs compared to the first book in this series. There's just not enough space to impart the complicated characters that appear. I think I'd love to read a book from the group of kids POV with the odd input from a ranger character we don't yet know. There was a hint of a psychological horror in this (though I suppose it IS a book for kids haha).
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