This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on May 19, 2015. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.
The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly
Pocket Books
484 Pages
I guess considering that Hollywood is dipping back into the shallow end of the pool for ideas and pulling out yet another remake, I shouldn’t have been surprised to see novelists turn to the same thing. In this case, The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly seems like a readymade remake of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Ironically, some two decades after the initial “Jurassic Park” movie release, Hollywood is releasing “Jurassic World.”