Fragment: A Novel

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by Warren Fahy | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0553807536 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 5/19/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, May 19, 2016
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.]

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. ***

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