Begin Your Journey With The Evolution Of Claire (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom #1) Designed By Tess Sharpe Accessible As Digital Format

start off by saying this is a gorgeous book, Wonderful cover art, and when you take off the dust jacket The spine of the book has the title in a striking shimmery blue, and there's an engraving on the cover of a mosquito in amber! It's an unexpected extra touch in the presentation and I quite appreciated it the book was only like!.


Jurassic World is a place of wonder and incredible creatures and this book took me there, and gave me some of that magic.
I'm grateful for that. In fact, some of the Jurassic movies probably don't speak to the wonder of relating to dinosaurs as well as this book does.
My rating for this book is generous, and that's largely from it being a competent novel that took me to Jurassic World, and that has a lot of value for me.


The pace of the book is a bit slow, like it doesn't overload you with tons of dinosaur stuff right away.
It takes its time with it and doesn't give you very many different types of dinosaur, but I found that enjoyable, The book is also very wholesome for most of the time, even twee, For me, that was pretty endearing, but I could see it being strange for some, It does serve for a narrative contrast, at the end, The characterizations and relationships are nicely done, and I liked both the interns and how the established Jurassic franchise characters are handled here.
A treat to get so much of Mr, Masrani in particular since he was snuffed out prematurely in the films, a great injustice,

I can imagine Claire being a difficult character to write, She is portrayed very differently between the first and second JW films, with neither film being terribly wellwritten in my opinion, The Claire of this novel works well and is more arresting than those film portrayals, while building upon them, Tess Sharpe succeeds in giving a good voice to this film character who feels thin in the movies and suffered from plenty of poor screenwriting though played by a very charismatic actress.
This novel feels more aligned with the Claire of Fallen Kingdom, but attempts to explain and acknowledge the steely person we saw in the first JW.
It's a tricky task, but it's smartly navigated,

Actually, I now realize that similar to the meshing of contrasting sides of Claire from the different movies, Sharpe also seemed to nicely integrate both the Wu we saw in Jurassic Park and the Wu of the JW films, which were miles apart.
A nice touch!

Touching on plot more specifically, I think there's some trope usage I'm not sure I really like, I think it feels expected, or played out, See below.

The first trope thing is Wyatt, he could have been less of a onenote heel.
Seemed too simplistic of a take, it got tiresome, Decent use of a red herring, sure, but that's not that novel either, He felt like your storebrand Draco Malfoy and then at the end it felt like Scooby Doo, is what I'm saying,

The larger thing is Justin and his end, This is not the first YA prequel about a film character I've seen where they fall in love with a wonderful soul that seems perfect for them, who then dies to clear way for the Chris Pratt or whoever that they're supposed to fall in love with later.
It just feels like the easiest way out, I guess I have mixed feelings about the narrative device, It was very sad, in any case, And the aftermath was written well, But I don't know, can't these characters be allowed to just have a relationship, and maybe it's not a forever love That happens a lot in life! Lots of readers are gonna see Justin and feel like he's marked for death, and in the end yep, they turn out to be right.
The only reason I wasn't sure was just because I wondered if there would be a subversion of that expectation, but no not really.


So, good book, but I'm not sure I would like it as much reading it again knowing that at the end Justin gets killed, sort of for the narrative convenience of the movies.
Jurassic Park has always been my favourite movie since I first saw it when I was four, andyears later it's still my favourite movie, as well as the sequels.
I found out about this book when it was released three days after my birthday, It was the one book I knew I had to read, and I was so thrilled to see it at the bookstore just a week before Christmas.
I loved every moment of this book, and reading the back story about Claire Dearing, If you are a fan of the Jurassic Park/World movies, you will definitely enjoy this book, Thank you to scholasticau for sending me a copy to review, I really loved this one, I knew I probably would as I love Jurassic Park, Jurassic World and dinosaurs As it was a prequel to the Jurassic World movies there was a few things I figured would happen in the book but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.
The book is told from Claire Dearing's POV as she goes to intern at Jurassic World as they are setting it all up.

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I loved learning more about Claire, Dr Wu and Simon Masrani, I felt this book showed how those characters got to be where they are in the first movie, It also made me fall in love with Claire even more and understand why she is the way she is in the movie.
I really enjoyed that we got to learn more about the training of some of the dinosaurs in the early stages of the park being around, especially the dinosaur that just loved to play with the gyroshperes, I think that was my favourite part of the book.

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If you are a lover of dinosaurs I most definitely think you will enjoy this book as I did I read the dedication at Target and it was literally “Rawwrr means I love you in dinosaur”.
"The thing about running scared You can't run forever, "

Me fascinó, no puedo decirlo de otra manera,
En esta libro nos encontramos con una Claire de diecinueve años terminando su primer año de universidad, con sus grandes aspiraciones y motivos, volviendo a casa para el verano justo antes de entrar a uno de los programas de internos a los que postuló.
Entre ellos se encuentra "Brigth Minds", el programa que lleva a cabo la corporación Masrani, encargados de darle vida al parque "Jurassic World", y por el cual Claire está más emocionada.


Entonces, sí, me gustó mucho, La trama se desarrolla lentamente en gran parte del libro, introduciendo al personaje de Claire en una versión diferente a la que se muestra en la película.
Una amante de los animales, una chica valiente y decidida, dispuesta a encontrar solución a todos los problemas que se presentan de la manera más racional posible.
Luego, nos vamos adentrando en lo que significa entrar en el programa de internos en la Isla Nublar, en medio de la construcción del parque y del transporte de los dinosaurios desde Isla Sorna.
En la mayor parte del libro no llega a pasar demasiado y en es sí lenta, pero a pesar de ser así, lo disfruté bastante, pues vamos siguiendo a Claire en cada una de sus tareas dentro del parque, en sus aventuras, en sus descubrimientos, y debo admitir que me encantaron esas escenas, porque realmente me sentí dentro del parque, viendo su funcionamiento, conviviendo con los dinosaurios y viendo como se llevaba todo a cabo para la gran apertura.
También conocemos a los demás internos, a los trabajadores del parque, a los dinosaurios y sus lindos nombres, y a Justin, que era adorable.
Y por ahí se desarrolla una especie de amistad/romance que, sí, también fue muy adorable

Ya llegando al final comienzan a pasar más cosas, la trama se enreda con unos cuantos misterios rodeando el parque y uf, pasan muchas cosas en las últimas páginas, que terminan llevando al personaje de Claire hacia un cambio radical.
Pero en realidad, siento que faltó un poco más al final para indicarnos como es que Claire cambió tanto y de manera tan abrupta.
O sea, lo que pasa es bastante sorprendente y triste Y bueno, me había hecho un pequeño spoiler con respecto a la muerte de Justin, pero aún así fue bastante triste saber que iba a tener un final como ese y llegar a esa

parte me rompió el corazón, pero creo que se necesita un poco más de historia, de explicaciones, para llegar realmente a esa Claire que vemos en la primera película.


En resumen: quedé con muchas ganas de más, Las páginas se me pasaron volando y creo que necesito un poco más de historia para llenar los vacíos entre este libro y la primera película.
Espero, y necesito, otro libro que le continúe o algo más,

Y eso, me encantó, amé a la pequeña Claire y el libro se va directo a mis favoritos,
Y eso quedó gigante, lol Wow wow wow wow! As a Dino nerd and Jurassic Park enthusiast I am BEYOND thrilled with this book!! Getting to know a young Claire has made me love and understand her even more.
This book captures all of the wonder, thrill and discovery that is Jurassic World, I will have to write a better review soon but for right now just WOW! Trigger warnings: death, animal injury, mentions of a car accident.


Oy. I'm going to be honest: I had really high hopes for this book, Possibly too high, really, because of course I was going to besold on a YA prequel to Jurassic World, Give me ALL the dino mayhem, please and thank you! And written by Tess Sharpe, who we already know can write great characters and gripping stories YES PLEASE.


Unfortunately, the biggest problem with this was the pacing, It'spages long. The first hundred pages or so is just Claire being picked up from college, going home, discovering that she's got the internship, and trekking to the island.
And honestly There was zero need for it to be that damn long, It was clearly trying to establish Claire as someone who's passionate animal rights, someone who's far more like the Claire that we get in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdoms than the Claire we get in Jurassic World.
But I don't think it needed to be as explicitly spelled out as it was, because it just felt, . . longwinded and dry.

The pacing didn't get much better once they were on the island, The mystery side of things definitely picked up in the second half of the story, but it still felt like things were being trickled out at regular intervals and then there was A BIG WATERFALL OF ADVENTURE AND EXCITEMENT AT THE END OMG.


I also wanted way more dinomayhem than I got, And really, I think that's all any YA reader is going to want in picking up a book set at Jurassic World, Instead, what we got was a lot more "look how cool it is to work with dinosaurs!" and a pretty unnecessary romance,

However, my absolute biggest problem with this book is the technology, We're told that it's. In, I had a Nokia, We had a family desktop computer, There was no wifi. I had an absolute brick of an iPod, And yet in this book, the kids are handed tablets with bioID and islandwide wifi and music streaming capabilities, One of the characters seems to have a digital SLR that's capable of recording video, One of the big concerns for the island is images of the dinosaurs being captured by drones before it officially opens, And yet the biggest reaction the kids have to all of this is "Oh, Cool. This device isn't on the market yet neat!", Which baffles me. Because if you'd handedMe a tablet with wifi and bioID and music streaming, I think my head probably would have exploded, So really, I think the best way around this would have been to just not give us a year at all, But no. Sigh.

Despite all of that, I will say that there were some fun nods to the movies and to things that were to come in the future.
And that cover is gorgeous, So it wasn't what I wanted from a book set at Jurassic World, And it did feel very sanitised for the YA market, But it wasn't terrible. It was just a thing that exists. I really appreciate this book now that I've seen Jurassic World: Dominion and Claire's character arc has truly evolved,
A solidread!.