Hooked on Books discussion

Members Starting the BR: Judith, Angie, Sammy, Jenny
Challenge: Book Quest Adventures
Book: The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

Wow!
This is Jurassic Park, but with Dragons!!!!

The setting is fun, the characters are boiler plate, but fun, and the writing is reminding me of the solo work by Lincoln Child.

So, derivative, but a good quick (so far) read.

I'm doing this one when wheel starts, as it's by far the longest page count I have lined up for turf right now 😆

I'm enjoying the story so far, although I'm not a huge fan of the writing. Jurassic Park was much better in that respect, I think. that one was a comfortable 5 star for me, and I'm stingy with those!

Love the idea though, and the setting works well (of course China are the ones to create dragons, lol).

Wasn't a fan of the audio though, as the narrator slurs his S sounds, which was getting really distracting, so have switched to the ebook.

I just have the audio, and I keep going from this to a better book.

I think if I hadn't read Jurassic Park, this would have been better, but it is so close to it story wise that I keep comparing them.

I do love me a dragon though, so I have an inherent bias for dragon stories, even if they are not brilliant.

dragons are awesome. I'm totally picturing Lucky as Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon though 😆

I never saw that, or read it if it was a book, but from the trailer I saw at some point, I can see what you are seeing.

It is both. My son adored the books as a kid, and he loved the first movie too (helped by the fact that Gerry Butler voices one of the characters, and that's his favourite actor).

It's all quite fun, but better enjoyed with little people, I think.

And done.

All-in-all I didn't dislike it, but the writing definitely wasn't what I would prefer. I think it could have been trimmed by a good many pages too. That's where Jurassic Park did it right. There is plenty of action, but there are moments to breathe and it didn't get dogged down in dino attacks too much. I feel this one didn't quite get that balance right.

But if there was a dragon zoo I would totally go (and get eaten)!