Review: A delightful book for sci-fi readers who enjoy tales about being chased by animals
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2011
This sci-fi story will delight readers who enjoy books and films about people getting caught in prehistoric times and are chased and devoured by dinosaurs and other monsters. Except that this tale is about the future. A mother takes her two very precocious young children, one of whom carries a wand, somewhat like a magic wand, to a cage less zoo. The animals are held at bay by electricity and, while they are ferocious, they are unable to break free and mall people. The zoo is run by the Darwin Institute for whom her husband worked before he was killed by one of the animals. The officials of the Institute are not satisfied with her husband's findings because, while they paid for his research, he proved that Darwin was wrong. They are trying to suppress his writings.The Institute was not sufficiently careful, and a severe storm blows out the electricity while the family is viewing the animals. As a result, the animals are freed, run wild, and kill over a hundred people. Most of the book describes how the mother and two children protect themselves from the animals and how they work to have her husband's findings published.