Fragment: A Novel
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 5/19/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I found this good-condition hardcover among the charity-sale books at a local Hannaford's, and was drawn by that talon on the cover. Sounds like a lost-world eco-thriller with "Jurassic Park" overtones. (I enjoyed the author's follow-on novel Pandemonium, so I know a bit about the revelations in this book, but am looking forward to reading the details.)
Later: The book was fun, scary, and mostly fast-moving, though there are explanatory bits that go into the ways in which lifeforms have spread and evolved. The story opens with a scientific vessel being used by a reality-TV show in hopes of finding some dramatic footage - but they didn't count on the amount of lethal, blood-spattered imagery they're going to get!
There are a variety of characters of differing likeability, skill, and red-shirt-ness, and some of them even survive to the end of the story {wry grin}. In the meantime, the mysterious island presents a mind-bending variety of lifeforms, some more plant than insect and vice versa, with secrets unfolding throughout.
There are illustrations in the story, part of a purported scientific paper on the findings; they're interesting, though I think the creatures might be more impressive if left to the reader's imagination.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book.]
Later: The book was fun, scary, and mostly fast-moving, though there are explanatory bits that go into the ways in which lifeforms have spread and evolved. The story opens with a scientific vessel being used by a reality-TV show in hopes of finding some dramatic footage - but they didn't count on the amount of lethal, blood-spattered imagery they're going to get!
There are a variety of characters of differing likeability, skill, and red-shirt-ness, and some of them even survive to the end of the story {wry grin}. In the meantime, the mysterious island presents a mind-bending variety of lifeforms, some more plant than insect and vice versa, with secrets unfolding throughout.
There are illustrations in the story, part of a purported scientific paper on the findings; they're interesting, though I think the creatures might be more impressive if left to the reader's imagination.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book.]
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Amherst St./101A (See Text For Details) in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Friday, October 28, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (10/28/2016 UTC) at Amherst St./101A (See Text For Details) in Nashua, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I plan to leave this book in or near the Pig Tale restaurant on Amherst St. at around 5:30; hope the finder enjoys it!
*** Released as part of the 2016 Spooktacular Halloween release challenge. ***
*** Released as part of the 2016 Spooktacular Halloween release challenge. ***