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Jurassic Run
Previously published at THE VALLEY In a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the ‘far arena’ for those convicted of a crime. Inside the carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The cross the Valley to get to the Gates of Freedom. The chance of no one has ever completed the journey. Convicted of crimes with little or no merit, Ben Peyton and others must battle their way across fields filled with the world’s deadliest apex predators in order to reach salvation. All the while the journey is caught on cameras and broadcast to the world as a reality show, the deaths and killings real, the macabre appetite of the audience needing to be satiated as Ben Peyton leads his team to escape not only from a legal system that’s more interested in entertainment than in justice, but also from the predators in Jurassic Run.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 12, 2021
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Rick Jones
93 books194 followersRick Jones was born and raised in the Boston area and moved to Las Vegas in the early eighties where he graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a degree in English. Currently, he is employed with the state of Nevada in law enforcement, and enjoys traveling, especially to Rome and Vatican City where many of the settings for his novels take place.
Rick Jones is also an avid writer and the creator of the Vatican Knight series (VATICAN KNIGHTS, SHEPHERD ONE and The ISCARIOT AGENDA), and the psychological thriller, THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS.
He lives in Las Vegas with his two mini schnauzers, Wrangler and Hobo.
Rick Jones is also an avid writer and the creator of the Vatican Knight series (VATICAN KNIGHTS, SHEPHERD ONE and The ISCARIOT AGENDA), and the psychological thriller, THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS.
He lives in Las Vegas with his two mini schnauzers, Wrangler and Hobo.
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September 30, 2021
Trigger warnings: violence, gore, blood, murder, animal death, people being eaten by dinosaurs, utterly corrupt legal systems.
Look, I'm not going to lie, I only read this for two reasons:
1. It's set in Argentina and I'm trying to read 150 books this year set outside the US and the UK, and
2. It sounded like dino-mayhem and it cost me $0 because it's on Scribd.
Was it well written? Not even remotely. Multiple characters' eyes were described as being the size of communion wafers, which is...a choice of comparison I never expected. Some of the dinosaur scenes felt ENTIRELY too close to Jurassic Park for my liking.
I will say that it was an entertaining concept, but ultimately I didn't give a shit about the characters and the ending was too abrupt for my liking. That being said, it was DEFINITELY dino-mayhem, so I guess there's that.
Look, I'm not going to lie, I only read this for two reasons:
1. It's set in Argentina and I'm trying to read 150 books this year set outside the US and the UK, and
2. It sounded like dino-mayhem and it cost me $0 because it's on Scribd.
Was it well written? Not even remotely. Multiple characters' eyes were described as being the size of communion wafers, which is...a choice of comparison I never expected. Some of the dinosaur scenes felt ENTIRELY too close to Jurassic Park for my liking.
I will say that it was an entertaining concept, but ultimately I didn't give a shit about the characters and the ending was too abrupt for my liking. That being said, it was DEFINITELY dino-mayhem, so I guess there's that.
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