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Extinction Event

di Dan Abnett

Serie: Primeval (3)

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When an Entelodon goes on the rampage down Oxford Street, causing untold damage and loss of life, Cutter decides a new approach to tackling the anomalies is needed. However, his investigations expose him and the team to a violent encounter with a mysterious Russian scientist and a situation more catastrophic and frightening than they've ever faced before... When Cutter, Abby and Connor disappear without a trace, Lester and Jenny must use every trick in the book to try and track them down...… (altro)
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Top Notch Time-Travelling Dinosaur Science Fiction!

When Cutter, Abby, and Conner are kidnapped, Jenny and Hemple go to search for them with the help of Helen, Cutter's estranged wife. Helen appears to know more than she is letting on, but they have no choice than to trust her if they are to get their crew back in one piece. Plus, they are running out of time, if normal operational activity is not resumed soon, the MOD will step in and cancel the entire research project.

It's a dangerous mission and they discover themselves in Siberia, face to face with what the Russians call the Baba Yaga, a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Not only that, but the anomalies appear to be more frequent and open for longer,
which allows all sorts of visitors from sixty-five million years ago to enter our time period causing destruction and mayhem along the way. Someone must know the truth about what is happening, but who?

British TV has never had it so good with this science fiction series, with the exception of Dr. Who, of course. So, I was pleased to review this book to see how they compared. It didn't disappoint. The main characters keep true to their TV roles, although I could have done without Helen being in it. She just seemed to be a spare part. It's also a monster of a story, nearly three hundred pages long with very small print, which took some time getting through. Despite this, it's packed with time-travelling dinosaurs, and has a fast-paced, riveting plot that concerns an impact point similar to that of the Tunguska asteroid strike in 1908.

Overall: I would definitely recommend this to all science fiction fans who should be stampeding towards the shelves for this
and the rest in the Primeval series quicker than one can say "Ceratopsian". ( )
  SassyBrit | Nov 27, 2018 |
Note: This book takes place between the second and third seasons of the prematurely canceled series.

Nick Cutter starts thinking that the ARC team needs to start coordinating their efforts with those of other countries. Surely, these anomolies must be appearing all over the globe, and there must be other teams trying to deal with them. If they started to pool their resources and know-how, it would be better for all (of course, we already know they've been opening elsewhere thanks to the first two books that took us to South America and off the coast of Ireland). While Lester is hesitant to pursue that avenue, the team soon finds itself in Russia under the not so best of circumstances.

Dan Abnett, early in the book, as the Entelodons make their rampage on Oxford Street, gives some ink to the human condition and after effect of the unexpected occurence that day. Something that I always seem to be asking myself in my life when I hear stories about someone's life being cut too short; about that person's joys and sorrows, and what they had planned for the rest of the week.

In Extinction Event, you get a burst of nonstop action right from the start, as the anomolies seem to be popping up in London at a greater frequency than they had been, which pulls you into the story without waiting for something to happen. And the chapters are very short--no more than 8 quick pages long, another tactic that makes it easy to continue on reading with the book. And Dan Abnett also uses his knowledge of what happened in the first two books (and the TV series) to his advantage in this book, as he references events from the first two books, as well as foreshadowed Jenny's resignation from the ARC in the third season as well as Connor's first starting with the idea of closing the anomolies. And I loved the connection with the 1908 Tunguska meteor strike.

But before we get to the things I didn't like about the book, let me just say that I loved the TV series--it was one of my favorites. As for the books, I loved the first one; the second one I was a bit mixed about. This one? Well...

Dan Abnett didn't seem to fully understand his characters. At the beginning of the book, it was fine. He seemed to have them all down as well as I would have expected him to have. However, with the exception of a consistent Lester and Cutter, that knowledge of the characters seemed to evaporate as the story went on. I had a hard time imagining the characters of Abby, Connor, or Jenny behaving or saying the way they did as this story progressed. He seemed to make the three of them not much more than window filling, and not very intelligent ones at that. All the characters seemed a bit shallow to me, whether they were the main characters or the supporting characters of the story. Dan Abnett seemed to keep retreading the same ideas and theories as the story progressed that it made it hard for the story to actually progress--it seemed like he was just going round and round with the story, and the story could have been a lot shorter. It makes it seem like he was just trying to drag the story out and make it longer.

(from page 158):
"Troodons," Cutter whispered to Abby. "Oh, they're amazing. Look at the eyes."
The eyes were following them keenly. The Troodons chirred and piped, lowering their necks to look inquisitively at Yushenko and his purring camera.
"Are they Troodons?" Suvova asked...

Um, wasn't it just established that they were in fact Troodons. Why retread the same information so close to each other.

It also seems that the author was trying to stick as many names of dinosaurs into his book as possible. I have to wonder if there were more dinosaurs wondering around in Siberia than in all of the Cretaceous.

So, in the end, I was thoroughly disappointed with this book. I often found myself reading it just to get to the end more than anything else. I was determined to finish the book, as I almost found myself thinking that stopping it in the middle would have been like watching half of an episode and then turning off the TV. ( )
  kingoftheicedragons | Aug 30, 2009 |
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When an Entelodon goes on the rampage down Oxford Street, causing untold damage and loss of life, Cutter decides a new approach to tackling the anomalies is needed. However, his investigations expose him and the team to a violent encounter with a mysterious Russian scientist and a situation more catastrophic and frightening than they've ever faced before... When Cutter, Abby and Connor disappear without a trace, Lester and Jenny must use every trick in the book to try and track them down...

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