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Summary: Claws
Review: Think Jaws with paws, and you've pretty much got the idea of this one. It's an old-fashioned 1970s style animal-monster-on-the loose story, though Fatalis is a little better than its genre.The characters are stock, but Rovin ponders several interesting subjects during the story, such as cryogenic preservation, the nature of instinct, ecological balance, the role of evolution and the question of extinction of species. Anyone interested in anthropology and American Indian lore will discover a lot of material on the Chumash tribe. Rovin's natural history of the cats is fascinating. Since no one's ever seen what a saber-tooth "tiger" really looks like, Rovin makes the cats his own. They're not really tigers, but described something more like outsize-incisored wildcats, and they behave more like a pride of lions. The explanation for their being around is a little hard to swallow, and once or twice they pull some tricks it's difficult to imagine any kind of big cat even attempting, but the author makes it credible enough to enjoy the ride. This is a very fast, very easy read, and very enjoyable as well.
Rating:
Summary: Claws
Review: Think Jaws with paws, and you've pretty much got the idea of this one. It's an old-fashioned 1970s style animal-monster-on-the loose story, though Fatalis is a little better than its genre. The characters are stock, but Rovin ponders several interesting subjects during the story, such as cryogenic preservation, the nature of instinct, ecological balance, the role of evolution and the question of extinction of species. Anyone interested in anthropology and American Indian lore will discover a lot of material on the Chumash tribe. Rovin's natural history of the cats is fascinating. Since no one's ever seen what a saber-tooth "tiger" really looks like, Rovin makes the cats his own. They're not really tigers, but described something more like outsize-incisored wildcats, and they behave more like a pride of lions. The explanation for their being around is a little hard to swallow, and once or twice they pull some tricks it's difficult to imagine any kind of big cat even attempting, but the author makes it credible enough to enjoy the ride. This is a very fast, very easy read, and very enjoyable as well.
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Summary: Great Horrer
Review: This book keeps you on your toes until the very end. You start to know the charters and then somthing new pops up. Over all this book is great, esspecilly if you live in southern Californa.
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Summary: Below average
Review: This book was very disappointing. The author had a great story idea: saber-tooth cats meet modern man. Unfortunately, the execution of this idea is very poor. As noted by other reviewers, the characters are the worst kind of stereotypes. Female reporter with a major chip on her shoulder; scientist who recently lost his wife; Vietman vet cop. That alone ends any sympathy you might feel for them. The 'romance' between the truly irritating reporter and the scientist seems completely forced and unrealistic. As a reader of fiction, I could overlook all of this in favor of a good story. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief.... as long as an author can come up with a plot device that is at least slightly plausible. The explanation for the presence of the cats is so far off the plausibility scale, it's really laughable. The author has his scientist character explain the whole thing to the reporter, pointing out all along how terribly unliklely it would be for this to happen to an animal. Yet, we're supposed to believe that it happened to a whole pride?? Please. Unless you've never read a thriller of this kind before, you'll guess the ending without any trouble. There are no surprises here. The whole plot is fairly well telegraphed from the beginning.
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