If you like animals, don’t read this one. Ever. I am not member of the pet-the-stray-cat group but I can admire animals from a distance. You can never be too careful around stray dogs but the other day I found myself wincing as a cute lab passed me in the street along with his owner, imagining what horrors it could unleash if he suddenly started viewing the people around him as threats. That’s the kind of effect this novel can have on you.
The plot is simple – and sinister. And not beyond the realm of possibilities. It can happen. It can be summed up in one sentence – the animal kingdom is going berserk and attacking humans. At the beginning, this is noticed by only a few people – most notably by one Jackson Oz, who has been shunned by the community of scientists because he is voicing his concern about it and no one is taking him seriously. That changes when Jackson, on a trip to Botswana, manages to record the behavior of a pride of lions that is so bizarre and directly flying into the face of all the available knowledge that these same academicians have to sit up and take notice. And just when they have begun to do so, all hell breaks loose, all over the world.
Like I mentioned before, the plot isn’t unreasonable. And that’s why it chills you right to the bones. You find yourself torn between the opposing feelings – horror at the ghastly deaths that you don’t want to read even a word more about and a reluctance to put the book down simply because you want to know what happen will next.
I don’t think I will look at the dogs and cats with complete ease ever again :(
The plot is simple – and sinister. And not beyond the realm of possibilities. It can happen. It can be summed up in one sentence – the animal kingdom is going berserk and attacking humans. At the beginning, this is noticed by only a few people – most notably by one Jackson Oz, who has been shunned by the community of scientists because he is voicing his concern about it and no one is taking him seriously. That changes when Jackson, on a trip to Botswana, manages to record the behavior of a pride of lions that is so bizarre and directly flying into the face of all the available knowledge that these same academicians have to sit up and take notice. And just when they have begun to do so, all hell breaks loose, all over the world.
Like I mentioned before, the plot isn’t unreasonable. And that’s why it chills you right to the bones. You find yourself torn between the opposing feelings – horror at the ghastly deaths that you don’t want to read even a word more about and a reluctance to put the book down simply because you want to know what happen will next.
I don’t think I will look at the dogs and cats with complete ease ever again :(
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