Reviewed by: Kris

Written by: Michael Crichton

Titled: Prey

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It’s been a long time since I picked up a Michael Crichton book. I’ve read most of the books that Crichton has written, so when I saw Prey on the store shelf I decided to pick it up. If you’ve ever read any Crichton novels, you know how they are set up and how well he researches the things he writes about. Prey is no exception to that rule. This certainly isn’t my favorite Crichton novel, but it is very good. It doesn’t live up to the legend of Jurassic Park or Lost World, but it is still a great story.

When I started reading Prey, I was immediately drawn in. The story starts out on a cliffhanger and I just wanted to keep reading until I got to the end so I could find out what happened. The story is kind of confusing because it’s written from the perspective of the main character and he doesn’t understand everything until the very end. The story is about a cloud of nanoparticles that have escaped from the lab that was developing them, and this cloud is trying to kill everything that gets in its way so it can keep growing.

The scariest thing about this book is the fact that the events that take place in the book could eventually happen in the real world. Who knows, maybe something like this is already going on and we don’t know about it. Nothing in this book would be good for the world if it were to ever happen, so I hope it doesn’t. It was really interesting to read about nanoparticles though. Crichton is able to describe everything in simplistic terms so that normal people are able to understand what he is writing about. That’s the best part of Crichton’s writing. Everyone is able to understand it on some level.

If you have ever read anything by Crichton and enjoyed it, then I highly recommend this one. It’s a very quick read and you probably won’t be able to put it down. Very suspenseful and quite scary when you examine the ramifications something like the technology described in the book would have on the world. This is definitely for a summer reading list.