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A review by anzunagi
The Lost World: The Junior Novelization by Gail Herman
2.0
The Lost World really suffers from what I like to call Michael Crichton syndrome - he spends a lot of time building up to the big reveal that the island has a bunch of...DINOSAURS on it, when you, the reader, knew from the get-go (as well as the cover) that dinosaurs were on the menu.
This book spends much more time on the science and behavioral patterns of dinosaurs more so than Jurassic Park did and unfortunately that's not quite as interesting as you'd expect. It takes almost two or three hundred pages for any real bad things to happen in the book.
It also felt like Crichton took the character pattern from the first novel (Ian Malcolm + 1 woman + 2 kids) and just repeated it. I didn't care about the characters, I didn't find them interesting nor was I invested in their fates. Several characters die and I felt nothing - even when their ending felt deserved.
Overall, I'd say this book feels like a cash grab - like a bad movie sequel or a direct to DVD movie where they got one of the big stars but no one else.
This book spends much more time on the science and behavioral patterns of dinosaurs more so than Jurassic Park did and unfortunately that's not quite as interesting as you'd expect. It takes almost two or three hundred pages for any real bad things to happen in the book.
It also felt like Crichton took the character pattern from the first novel (Ian Malcolm + 1 woman + 2 kids) and just repeated it. I didn't care about the characters, I didn't find them interesting nor was I invested in their fates. Several characters die and I felt nothing - even when their ending felt deserved.
Overall, I'd say this book feels like a cash grab - like a bad movie sequel or a direct to DVD movie where they got one of the big stars but no one else.