Zoo (Zoo) (Suspense)

by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

In James Patterson's pulse-racing New York Times bestseller, violent animal attacks are destroying entire cities-and two unlikely heroes must save the world before it's too late.
All over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.
For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels-and Zoo is the thriller he was born to write. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, Zoo is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "one of the best of the best" (Time).

• ISBN10: 0316097446
• ISBN13: 9780316097444
• Publish Date: 3 September 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[angelarenea9]

I am fairly new to James Patterson, and I actually picked this book up for my 2013 ABC challenge (Z for Zoo!). I thought that the premise for this book was a very interesting, if not overdone idea, and I did enjoy some of it, for example the lion scenes, and some of the science (although I couldn't tell if, at any given moment it was real science or fictionalized). But for the most part this book felt like someone woke up at 4 in the afternoon and said 'Crap, my fiction class's final story is due tomorrow! I'll write about... animals going crazy and attacking humans because of pheromones, yea, that'll be great! I need some coffee but I think I can knock this out tonight!" It just felt like it could have been really good, and really interesting, but it just got phoned in. Which I guess makes sense because Patterson seems to just be throwing books at the public without worrying about if they are actually good.

I did not like the main character, nor did I like his love interest. They just were not very likable. To be honest it didn't even feel like they liked each other. It seemed like the chemistry between the two of them was more like, we have a job to do, you don't hate me, I don't hate you, the job is to be in a relationship. There was no affection. I felt like I wasn't given the opportunity to become attached to anyone either. There were arbitrary gaps in the story without explanation. To be honest if this book was a sentence, it would be one really long, boring sentence, without pause, or punctuation. There were many opportunities to have a much needed lull in the action. Without them, the excitement was just not exciting.

This could have been a good book, and should have, but it just really fell short of all expectations. I have a lot of books on my to read list and the time spend reading this book could easily have been spend on one I would have liked.

[SilverThistle]

Apocalypse by animal. Mkay.

The writing style was annoying, the explanation of the why and the how was unsatisfying and I hated the ending...but despite that I loved the story. The story was great!