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Primeval
They’ve always played for fame and fortune. Now they play to survive.
A chosen few are selected each year to have their minds uploaded into a virtual world filled with adventure. In Primeval, they’ll pit their skills against each other, facing off against savage prehistoric creatures in an unforgiving environment, to see who will be crowned victorious.
Cary Glaser may be new to the game, but she has no interest in winning, or the celebrity status it entails. She wants answers. When last season ended in tragedy, her best friend Tara didn’t regain consciousness. Despite the official story, Cary believes Tara’s still inside Primeval, and she’ll stop at nothing to find her.
But what she doesn’t know could get her killed. Because when you die in the game this season—it’s for real.
Fans of Ready Player One and Jurassic Park will love this standalone adventure.
A chosen few are selected each year to have their minds uploaded into a virtual world filled with adventure. In Primeval, they’ll pit their skills against each other, facing off against savage prehistoric creatures in an unforgiving environment, to see who will be crowned victorious.
Cary Glaser may be new to the game, but she has no interest in winning, or the celebrity status it entails. She wants answers. When last season ended in tragedy, her best friend Tara didn’t regain consciousness. Despite the official story, Cary believes Tara’s still inside Primeval, and she’ll stop at nothing to find her.
But what she doesn’t know could get her killed. Because when you die in the game this season—it’s for real.
Fans of Ready Player One and Jurassic Park will love this standalone adventure.
- GenresScience Fiction
373 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2022
1 person is currently reading
19 people want to read
About the author
Eldon Farrell
17 books106 followersEldon Farrell is an avid reader, writer, and author of the upcoming novel The Thief of Baria. A professionally trained accountant, Eldon has spent more than two decades reading and writing thriller novels. Readers have described his novels as “fast-paced”, “full of action”, and “edge-of-your-seat” reading.
He is a lover of language, and an unapologetic fan of DC Comics, who does recognize the irony in the redundancy. A child of the eighties, when not writing, he can still be found in the shadows of Grayskull or trying to get back to the future.
You can learn more about him and the books he writes at www.eldonfarrellauthor.com
He is a lover of language, and an unapologetic fan of DC Comics, who does recognize the irony in the redundancy. A child of the eighties, when not writing, he can still be found in the shadows of Grayskull or trying to get back to the future.
You can learn more about him and the books he writes at www.eldonfarrellauthor.com
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January 25, 2024
Team Selection Shocker! Klutz or Calamity! "Well, before entering this contest I watched re-runs of The Flintstones to prepare myself to meet dinosaurs. I was just expecting to be playfully bowled over and licked affectionally. Boy, was I shocked with what actually happened! I blame the producers! - Daisy - The Secondary Character Screamer
A very entertaining movie-ready book that screams to be made into a summer blockbuster.
While the delightfully well-chosen dinosaurs threaten to take over the story, the brilliantly drawn characters steal the show.
To top it all off, there's a scene where a truth-bomb reveal of betrayal is exploded with pitch-perfect emotion. Bravo! That scene was amongst the best I've read in my life. Memorable stuff.
Overall, a thunderous earth-shaking good show.
And a final word from one of the contestants: Daisy, "Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!"
Strongly Recommended, 5 'Jurassic Park in the Matrix,' stars
A very entertaining movie-ready book that screams to be made into a summer blockbuster.
While the delightfully well-chosen dinosaurs threaten to take over the story, the brilliantly drawn characters steal the show.
To top it all off, there's a scene where a truth-bomb reveal of betrayal is exploded with pitch-perfect emotion. Bravo! That scene was amongst the best I've read in my life. Memorable stuff.
Overall, a thunderous earth-shaking good show.
And a final word from one of the contestants: Daisy, "Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!"
Strongly Recommended, 5 'Jurassic Park in the Matrix,' stars
February 11, 2024
‘Primeval’ by Eldon Farrell and Connor Farrell is a fun science fiction thriller similar to the kind of novels Michael Crichton is famous for writing. A corporation, Perception Films, more interested in profits than safety, crosses its fingers that the safety protocols it has in place will work while the company and its stockholders make money from dangerous new technologies. ‘Primeval’ is a virtual-reality game show, a programmed world similar to Crichton’s Jurassic Park. It is televised to entertain viewers. The dinosaurs are programmed characters as are the prehistoric environments they and other critters eat, fight, and live in. Ten real-world contestants who are accepted as Primeval game players have their brains hooked up to computers while their bodies sleep inside pods. Their avatars struggle to stay alive while traveling in the VR environment while they compete to reach ‘home’ for a prize. If they ‘die’, they are immediately pulled out of the VR world and regain consciousness inside their real bodies in the pods. At least, that is what is supposed to happen…
I copied the book blurb:
”They’ve always played for fame and fortune. Now they play to survive.
A chosen few are selected each year to have their minds uploaded into a virtual world filled with adventure. In Primeval, they’ll pit their skills against each other, facing off against savage prehistoric creatures in an unforgiving environment, to see who will be crowned victorious.
Cary Glaser may be new to the game, but she has no interest in winning, or the celebrity status it entails. She wants answers. When last season ended in tragedy, her best friend Tara didn’t regain consciousness. Despite the official story, Cary believes Tara’s still inside Primeval, and she’ll stop at nothing to find her.
But what she doesn’t know could get her killed. Because when you die in the game this season—it’s for real.
Fans of Ready Player One and Jurassic Park will love this standalone adventure.”
While the premise is a familiar one, the writing is excellent! Once started, the novel’s thrills and chills as well as the confrontations with various dinosaurs are a delight! Well, it is a delight as long as you don’t mind various characters being eaten alive…
Thank you, Graeme Rodaughan, for the recommendation!
I copied the book blurb:
”They’ve always played for fame and fortune. Now they play to survive.
A chosen few are selected each year to have their minds uploaded into a virtual world filled with adventure. In Primeval, they’ll pit their skills against each other, facing off against savage prehistoric creatures in an unforgiving environment, to see who will be crowned victorious.
Cary Glaser may be new to the game, but she has no interest in winning, or the celebrity status it entails. She wants answers. When last season ended in tragedy, her best friend Tara didn’t regain consciousness. Despite the official story, Cary believes Tara’s still inside Primeval, and she’ll stop at nothing to find her.
But what she doesn’t know could get her killed. Because when you die in the game this season—it’s for real.
Fans of Ready Player One and Jurassic Park will love this standalone adventure.”
While the premise is a familiar one, the writing is excellent! Once started, the novel’s thrills and chills as well as the confrontations with various dinosaurs are a delight! Well, it is a delight as long as you don’t mind various characters being eaten alive…
Thank you, Graeme Rodaughan, for the recommendation!
December 31, 2022
Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games meets Ready Player One in this insanely addictive read!! I loved everything from the world set-up, to the play between characters, and the twists. The dinosaur descriptions were on point and made me want to rewatch the Jurassic saga 😂
If you love a good read with a mix of VR, action, survivor-type situations and a big cast, this should be on your 2023 to read list!
If you love a good read with a mix of VR, action, survivor-type situations and a big cast, this should be on your 2023 to read list!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews