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dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
After the events of [b:Dinocalypse Now|13599888|Dinocalypse Now (Dinocalypse Trilogy, #1)|Chuck Wendig|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1334292887s/13599888.jpg|19191673], Jet Black, Professor Khan, Amelia Stone, Atok, and Benjamin Hu find themselves flung decades into the future, the far away year 2000 where the psychosaurs have taken over the world. What has the passage of time done to their allies in the Century Club? And can they find their way back to the past to fix the future?
Chuck Wendig continues his rampage of pulp awesomeness with Beyond Dinocalypse, the second and superior volume in the Dinocalypse Trilogy. If dinosaurs invading 1935 Manhattan was bad, the result of their conquest is a thousand times worse. The remaining Centurions are holed up beneath Manhattan, working with the former enemies The Walking Brain and Doctor Methusaleh just to survive. Humanity have been reduced to cattle, harvesting the mind-controlling fungus that gives the psychosaurs their power. And Sally Slick isn't how you remember her at all...
Beyond Dinocalpse took everything I enjoyed about Dinocalypse Now and turned the knob up to 11. The world is overrun, good guys aren't as good as they used to be, and it's up to a small band of heroes to turn things around. What's not to like?
BD focuses on a slightly different group of heroes and turns them loose. Benjamin Hu and Amelia Stone got some much needed action and Jet Black and Professor Khan are finally stepping up and becoming the heroes they were always meant to be. Aside from Jet and Khan, the best parts were seeing how far the mighty have fallen. Never expected to see Sally Slick boozing it up and wearing an eyepatch.
Even the prose was better than in the first volume. A more forward thinking reviewer would have highlighted things or wrote them down for sharing later but I couldn't be bothered to stop long enough to write things down. Or shower.
As you can tell, Beyond Dinocalpse really stimulated my literrogenous zones. When you add a dystopian future to the chaotic pulp stew that was Dinocalypse Now, you get an unstoppable force of pulp perfection. 4.5 out of 5 toothsome stars!
Chuck Wendig continues his rampage of pulp awesomeness with Beyond Dinocalypse, the second and superior volume in the Dinocalypse Trilogy. If dinosaurs invading 1935 Manhattan was bad, the result of their conquest is a thousand times worse. The remaining Centurions are holed up beneath Manhattan, working with the former enemies The Walking Brain and Doctor Methusaleh just to survive. Humanity have been reduced to cattle, harvesting the mind-controlling fungus that gives the psychosaurs their power. And Sally Slick isn't how you remember her at all...
Beyond Dinocalpse took everything I enjoyed about Dinocalypse Now and turned the knob up to 11. The world is overrun, good guys aren't as good as they used to be, and it's up to a small band of heroes to turn things around. What's not to like?
BD focuses on a slightly different group of heroes and turns them loose. Benjamin Hu and Amelia Stone got some much needed action and Jet Black and Professor Khan are finally stepping up and becoming the heroes they were always meant to be. Aside from Jet and Khan, the best parts were seeing how far the mighty have fallen. Never expected to see Sally Slick boozing it up and wearing an eyepatch.
Even the prose was better than in the first volume. A more forward thinking reviewer would have highlighted things or wrote them down for sharing later but I couldn't be bothered to stop long enough to write things down. Or shower.
As you can tell, Beyond Dinocalpse really stimulated my literrogenous zones. When you add a dystopian future to the chaotic pulp stew that was Dinocalypse Now, you get an unstoppable force of pulp perfection. 4.5 out of 5 toothsome stars!
heregrim's review against another edition
5.0
Time travel, The far future, villains turned allies and allies shaped by the past into something almost unrecognizable. Plus Dinosaurs....so this is a great, quick, pulp fiction read.
ruzgofdi's review against another edition
3.0
The action is still here, but the tone is a bit different. It's not that the tone is out of place. I would imagine it's difficult to be an optimistic hero fighting the good fight when you're quite literally the last pocket of resistance in a world that you failed to save decades ago. And there were a few times where characters were openly mocked for being "a golly gee hopeful type". It takes a little bit of the fun out of it. And unlike the first book in the series, this time I felt like there may have been some aspect of the game the books are based on that I'm not familiar with that could have been explained a little better. It's not a huge deal, but I'm a little curious why a couple of the central characters are still in decent enough shape to be seeing action when they're pushing a hundred.
Also included was a short story that focused on a minor background character. It does a lot of jumping around in time to establish what the character was like at the important periods of time the main story takes place during. It's also the only explanation of how one of the main plot threads of this book actually gets wrapped up. It's good, but on some level it feels like an after thought. Like the author knows he's not coming back to the world created for this book in the next one, so he needed to tie everything up somehow.
Over all I liked it, and I'm looking forward to the conclusion, but I think it was a little bit of a step down from the first in the series.
Also included was a short story that focused on a minor background character. It does a lot of jumping around in time to establish what the character was like at the important periods of time the main story takes place during. It's also the only explanation of how one of the main plot threads of this book actually gets wrapped up. It's good, but on some level it feels like an after thought. Like the author knows he's not coming back to the world created for this book in the next one, so he needed to tie everything up somehow.
Over all I liked it, and I'm looking forward to the conclusion, but I think it was a little bit of a step down from the first in the series.
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