A review by dckathleen
Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

Ingredients: Moon landing,  steadily escalating dinosaur extinction conspiracy theory, ex CIA cryptographer turned monk, rogue secret government agency, murderous ex con, illegal fossil hunting, kidnapping, and obsure yet findable random mineshafts and caves. 

This book would have benefitted from either good editing or more writing. It was too short to make these bonkers components make sense, so they should have lost several elements...or added 200 pages and really developed the characters and storylines so it made sense. 

Points off for descriptions of a large person that were over the top, the use of the R word (so we know a bad guy is ignorant), and the most central casting descriptions of rough and tumble men and snub nosed women. Also, everyone is white. 
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