Chief Park Ranger Henry Shore has dealt with and fought real live dinosaurs at his beloved Crater Lake National Park for over six years. With the help of his rangers, a few brave FBI friends and army soldiers he’d been victorious over a prehistoric lake creature and years later some particularly fiendish, and clever, specimens of the flying variety. He and his newspaper publisher wife, Ann, thought their park was finally rid of the monsters and they could reclaim their tranquil life in a place they cherished. Not so. For suddenly across the park new and even more malevolent mutant species of dinosaur begin to appear and create havoc, attacking the park’s visitors and threatening its peace. And this time the primeval scourge isn’t confined to just their park. The creatures have moved into the nearby towns, across the western United States and up into Canada. They are so much more aggressive, smarter and hungrier than any that have come before and the infestation is spreading further and faster than Henry and Ann can even imagine. This time there’s no easy way to defeat the dinosaurs. There’s too many of them and they’re too devious. This time it’s full out war and the victor will someday claim Earth.
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"Good monster attacks, dinosaur issues, and pulp miltary action. Tanks vs. dinosaurs, and lots of gore."
Reviewer: Reader for Bookangel.
With the flying gargoyles exterminated, and his wife's cancer in remission, Ranger Henry Shore was hoping for a quiet year. No suck luck. Strange, huge creatures have been sighted in the lake, but they might have to take second place to the new enemy that's turned up on land.
Set only months after the second book, unlike the five year gap from the first, this feels like a more direct sequel. Several supporting characters return and the action escalates. The dinosaurs are back in force, and while the characters are expecting them to stalk and pounce like last time, this time the attacks are brute force and in mass. The army shows up in force.
Some of the attacks are amazingly direct, and in this book, if someone is missing, everyone knows they are dead. In a move I haven't seen before, the fate of two rangers, one a named and near lead character is stretched out through the book with the readers knowiung what has happened, but the other characters not and proceeding realistically on that basis. It makes it an uncomfortable read in parts.
I have one minor complaint: the cat, Sasha, curls up on someone's lap part way through and then I don't think I saw her again during the book. However otherwise I can't fault the characterisation. The people who make dodgy decisions are ill and under pressure, most of the rest make sensible choices and often die because they were surprised or simply didn't have enough force for what they were facing.
It doesn't end at a natural breakpoint like the others. Instead it feels like the end of the beginning rather than a book. No status quo has been restored, and little has been resolved. I'm going straight on to book four, but otherwise that might irritate me.
Good monster attacks, dinosaur issues, and a realistic response from world governments for once, as well as an acknowledgement that the problem is world-wide.
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