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Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, Medical content
The action sequences were really exciting, which is the majority of the book so that is great. I also really love how grounded the book was. I loved all of the schematics, the computer code, and how granular the author was about the obstacles the characters were facing.
My struggle with this book is how good the movie is. I was really affected by the visuals and the John Williams score, and I missed that sense of wonder the main characters experienced upon seeing the dinos for the first time. I realize that is kind of the point; the horror and uncertainty these animals instills in people is opposite from John Hammond's expectations. But come on! It's dinosaurs! 🦖 That and the pacing of the ending was a little weird. There was so much action for so long, and the resolution in the end didn't match my expectation for how high stakes all the action was.
Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore
Moderate: Child death
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical content
Minor: Classism
I'd heard that it would be scarier, but I had no idea what I was in for finally picking up the book. I caught myself holding my breath during several scenes and stayed up until my vision got blurry because things just kept happening and I didn't want to put it down.
I only have a couple complaints. Mostly that the first 100 or so pages were filled with so much boring bs. I was here for science, dinos, and horror, I did not care to read all the lawyer bs with throw away characters that could have been discussed later in small paragraphs. Nor the times the action was broken up for Hammond and Wu to have the same argument again and again. I will tell you right now, I started skipping those in the last 150 ish pages and the reading experience vastly improved.
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit
"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way."
This is a classic for a reason! The writing is a great example of showing not telling. Several complex concepts are thrown around and explained, rather than treating the reader like an idiot.
I wasn't a fan of how repetitive the story was. They would encounter a dino, escape the dino, talk for a bit, then encounter a dino. Rinse and repeat.
Otherwise, most of the characters were well written, even though there are a lot of them. The world building was incredible, and the deaths weren't overly gory.
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
4.5 because in a book about dinosaurs there sure was a lot of misogyny and fat shaming.
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, Medical content