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Now in mass-market—the action-packed thriller in the blockbuster and bestselling tradition of Jurassic Park from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly!
It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have proven the existence of dragons—a landmark discovery no one could ever believe is real, and a scientific revelation that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing findings within the greatest zoo ever constructed.
A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see these fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane “CJ” Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that the dragons are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. Of course it can’t…
“Plenty of action....For over-the-top adventure addicts, a Reilly novel is like a new roller coaster opening at Great America. Lines form, fans swoon” (Booklist).
- Sales Rank: #94684 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-27
- Released on: 2015-01-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Jurassic Park with dragons instead of dinosaurs... so compellingly written that you get caught up in the furiously dramatic story... THE GREAT ZOO OF CHINA is a blockbuster of a book that tears along at a shrieking pace. SCI-FI NOW I enjoyed The Great Zoo of China from start to finish and found it difficult to put down. It's fun, it's tense, action-packed and rewarding with a subtle humour that offsets all the action and bloodletting. A Hollywood Blockbuster in Book form. SFBOOK.COM The science and the setting of "The Great Zoo of China" make the scenario completely believable. The action is overwhelming, making the reader feel giddy as the pages fly. You will believe that dragons are real. WASHINGTON POST When it comes to thrillers from Matthew Reilly, phrases like 'high octane' and 'intense action' don't even come close to adequately convey how much insanity he manages to cram into every novel. I've come to expect twisty-turny plots that rattle along at a breakneck pace and that I'll be so caught up that I'll be frightened to even blink. The good news is that The Great Zoo of China is no exception to this rule. THEELOQUENTPAGE A very exciting book... I loved every page of The Great Zoo of China. It's undemanding, great fun to read, thrilling, exciting, gory and did I say thrilling? FORWINTERNIGHTS Brace yourself for non-stop action... Fast furious, this is a must read for fans of Matthew Reilly and the action genre. YORKSHIRE EVENING POST 'If you liked Jurassic Park prepared to be totally blown away by this action-packed blockbuster.' PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH
About the Author
Matthew Reilly is the international bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Five Greatest Warriors, The Six Sacred Stones, Seven Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow, the children’s book Hover Car Racer, and one novella, Hell Island. His books are published in more than twenty languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Yeah, it's a Jurassic Park knock-off. But man, what a ride!
By Whitt Patrick Pond
Matthew Reilly's The Great Zoo of China is definitely a mixed bag as a read. On one level, it's obviously and undeniably a knock-off of Jurassic Park - but with dragons instead of dinosaurs - and with most of the characters barely rising above one-dimensional cliches, a largely predictable plot, and periodic moments where a willing suspension of disbelief is required. But on another level, it's a highly visual, fast-paced action thriller that, once the action starts, will absolutely keep you gripped all the way to the end.
The basic plot is pretty familiar to anyone who's seen or read Jurassic Park: Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a prominent writer for National Geographic and a leading expert on large reptiles, is invited - along with a handful of American journalists and dignitaries - to be given a special advance tour of a new zoo that China has been building, intended to be the largest zoo in the world - The Great Zoo of China. The Chinese government has been very secretive about this zoo however, and upon arrival, it is soon revealed to CJ and the others exactly why. This is a very special zoo, unique of its kind in all the world. This is a zoo for _dragons_.
And like in Jurassic Park, as part of the tour, an explanation is given as to how the Chinese have come to have dragons, how they keep the dragons under control, and why the park is absolutely, completely, beyond any shadow of a doubt, safe. And then things go wrong, horribly spectacularly wrong, and you're in for quite a ride.
Here's a sample of what you can expect both in terms of style and action:
"CJ dived left, pulling the wounded Johnson with her as the troop truck smashed through the windows on the eastern side of the restaurant and bounced up its broad levels.
---CJ glimpsed the red-bellied black emperor that had hurled the truck at the restaurant. It banked away before pulling up, its wings spread wide, and landing on the roof of the restaurant with a loud, floor-shaking thump.
---The troop truck plowed through tables and chairs, sliding on its side right through the circle of commandos that had been threatening CJ. It ran right over the lead trooper and two other commandos before crushing two more when its side-turned grille smashed them against the wall.
---While CJ had dived left, Li had dived right, only to have a section of the restaurant's ceiling come crashing down on top of him. The young electrician's shout was cut off as he was buried beneath the rubble.
---The truck came to a halt and it was only when the noise of its spectacular entry had subsided that CJ heard the groans of the men inside it.
---The dragon must have picked the truck up somewhere -- with the troops inside it -- and flung it at the restaurant.
---Wind and rain whipped in through the gaping thirty-foot-wide hole in the eastern side of the restaurant. The open sky loomed beyond the opening. The valley floor yawned a thousand feet below it.
---CJ Lay on her belly beside Johnson inside the darkened restaurant, staring in disbelief at the side-turned troop truck.
---There was a truck inside the restaurant. The mountaintop restaurant.
---And then the other dragons came."
I don't want to say too much in order to avoid any spoilers as there are some details that should only come out in the reveals that occur as you read the novel. That said, however, I can comment on the positives and the negatives of the book in general.
Weaknesses:
(1) Predictability - Most of what happens, at least on the human side of things, is pretty predictable, especially to anyone who's seen or read Jurassic Park.
(2) Lack of character development - Most of the characters never rise beyond bare sketches or outright cliches, particularly on the Chinese side: officious bureaucrats, blindly loyal military types, pampered party officials, lowly workers, etc. The main character, CJ, ends up as a different kind of cliché, a cross between Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. And all of the characters are either good or bad, never a mix or anything in-between.
(3) Wait-a-second moments - a number of times there are moments in the novel where the reader will tend to blink and think "Wait a second, that ain't right." By that I mean that you'll read something and suddenly realize that a character has done something or that something has happened that just wouldn't work or couldn't happen. I can't be specific without creating spoilers, but you'll know them when you come across them.
Strengths:
(1) Fast pace - this, more than anything else, is what overcomes the book's weaknesses. Reilly keeps things moving and keeps your attention gripped so firmly that you don't stop to think - or care - about the lack of character depth, the predictability or the wait-a-second moments.
(2) Highly visual style - Reilly is really good at using words to create a highly visual sense of everything that is happening as the novel progresses. You really feel like you're in the novel and seeing it happen all around you.
(3) The dragons - Reilly does an excellent job of first making the novel's case for the existence of dragons, and then of fleshing them out in terms of their natures and behaviors, even their social structure as a distinct species. While the humans in the novel are almost completely predictable, a lot of what makes The Great Zoo of China work is that you _don't_ know what the dragons are up to and what that is only gradually becomes clear as events proceed.
Recommended for fans of Jurassic Park-ish action thrillers and anyone who likes a book that can make you feel like you're watching a movie - from the inside. And for anyone who likes dragons.
65 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Perils of Pauline meets Jurassic Park
By Brian Baker
And that's not meant to be a good thing.
I'm not going to do a story recitation here. You can get that from the book's Product Page.
Unlike "Jurassic Park", there's no effort made whatsoever to actually establish any suspense, background, a plot, or three-dimensionality to the characters. A bunch of people are dropped into a setting -- in this case a theme park in China at which the main attraction is a bunch of actual living dragons -- and in literally just a few pages the dragons go on a rampage and everyone's running for their lives, fighting dragons, dangling from cliffs, fighting monster crocodiles, etcetera etcetera ad nauseum.
If we're going to compare this book to "Jurassic Park" -- as the publishers do on the book jacket, as well as many of the other reviewers -- then let's actually do it.
What made "Jurassic Park" such an entertaining book (and movie) was the mounting sense of doom and dread, culminating in a life-or-death confrontation with the dinosaurs. Chrichton took his time in establishing the sense of wonder at the science and setting, and firmly established his characters so we felt we knew (and sympathized with) them.
There's absolutely none of that in this book. It's like a cartoon. As I said, we have a bunch of two-dimensional characters dropped into a locale like lumps of coal in a bin, and immediately they're off fighting dragons. It's as if Chrichton were to start "Jurassic Park" at a point thee-quarters of the way through, and try to stretch what little story remains into a full-length book.
To sum it up in one word: boring.
52 of 61 people found the following review helpful.
Hold On!
By albion
I received this books as an ARC from Galley books.
I own several books by Matthew Reilly but they are still on my "to-read" list so this book was actually the first one for me. Being a fan of Steve Alten and Michael Crichton I was drawn to the synopsis of fantastic, extinct creatures brought back to life. Naturally you knew something was going to go wrong.
The parallels to Jurassic Park were obvious and in fact the writer makes mention of that in the book when one of the characters mentions how well this sort of thing worked out for Jurassic Park. Turns out he was right on the nose.
This book is incredibly fast-paced with a barely a moment to take a breath before the next disaster or epic battle takes place. It was in no way a relaxing read as I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I almost literally could not put it down, to the point that I considered calling into work just to stay home and read it.
The humans are treated with barely restrained contempt in this novel and I like that. These humans are acting without any humanity, breeding, caging, training with pain, messing with forces beyond their comprehension and simply murdering anyone or anything who gets in the way. The whole idea of the zoo, minus the awe-inspiring nature of the inhabitants, is one that is portrayed as over commercialized, tawdry, dirty and just downright unethical. The idea that humans could "train" these kinds of ancient mythical creatures is absurd and every description of this high tech uber-secret facility is described with this undertone. You get the sense that no one who really knows their stuff is fooled by the shiny exterior of the zoo's operations.
This book isn't light-hearted nor is it for the faint of heart. There is plenty of gore, violence and outrage to be had, served on a buffet of vivid descriptions and action-packed sequences that really test the limits of your imagination.
All in all I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with this read and I absolutely loved the book. Matthew Reilly just moved to the top of my "to read" pile.
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