A review by tbr_the_unconquered
The Jurassic Chronicles by Ed Gosney, Laxmi Hariharan, Piers Beckley, Emily Mah, Stant Litore, Victor Milán, Samuel Peralta, Seanan McGuire, Philip Harris, M.J. Kelley
1.0
Finding a book full of short stories that featured dinosaurs felt just about great when I started this book. What better entertainment than to spend time with dinosaurs on the rampage and humans trying desperately to escape from them ? While I did find a few stories in this collection along this vein, most were totally off the mark. There are dino-human hybrids, lands lost in time, experiments gone wrong and so on but they were not what I was looking for. Most of the stories were lacklustre and did not hold water but there were a couple I really liked :
•A spear for Allosaur by Victor Milan – A teenager who hunts a fierce Allosaur in the world of Milan’s Dinosaur Lords. The backdrop and the structure of this story was good and held my attention for the entire duration of the tale.
•Szcar’s Trial by Harry Manners – Told from the POV of a raptor and her ordeal by fire this one was a whiff of fresh air in the anthology.
While a few others showed promise in fits and starts, the overall stories were rather lukewarm. There was even a very obvious rip-off of a famous scene from Jurassic Park in one of the stories.
Just so-so.
•A spear for Allosaur by Victor Milan – A teenager who hunts a fierce Allosaur in the world of Milan’s Dinosaur Lords. The backdrop and the structure of this story was good and held my attention for the entire duration of the tale.
•Szcar’s Trial by Harry Manners – Told from the POV of a raptor and her ordeal by fire this one was a whiff of fresh air in the anthology.
While a few others showed promise in fits and starts, the overall stories were rather lukewarm. There was even a very obvious rip-off of a famous scene from Jurassic Park in one of the stories.
Just so-so.