Z. Rex

by Steve Cole

Book Overview

Jurassic Park meets virtual gaming in a blockbuster new thriller You're 14 and find yourself on your own. Your father, who has developed the world's cutting edge research on virtual electronic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142417122
• ISBN13: 9780142417126
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Awesome book for boys to read

My son brought this book home to read. I picked it up and read it. It was a really good read. My son read it also and we have had great talks and discussions about it ever since. We are both looking forward to the next book. It is the perfect book for boys who usually don't like to read. It has a lot of action and thrills for boys. I work in a school and work with the kids who don't like to read and everyone of the boys I've recommended it to has read it in less than 3 days. These are boys who usually take 3 weeks to read a book because they hate it so much. HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!

the perfect story for adrenaline junkies.

for anyone who's a fan of the jurrasic park movie frachises, or just the common young adult reader looking for a good book, you can find even doses of action and intruige in this novel. chock- full of vivid action sequences packed full of gore and prehistoric mayhem, a plot that would draw even the most reluctant reader in, it's one of those rare books that starts with a supersonic bang and doesn't stop till you clear the last chapter.

Wow!

Cool cover, but that doesn't always mean the story is good. This story steams, though. Like an Alex Rider novel, only with virtual gaming. It's about a boy named Adam who finds himself being hunted by a virtual reality T.Rex come to life, while at the same time the government scientists who kidnapped his father are after him AND the dinosaur. Because this is technology that has gone haywire and now everyone wants to use it for their own purposes. But this T.Rex -- branded Z. Rex because he is hyper-evolved -- can only be controlled by one person, and that's Adam. Because it was Adam's thought-processing that his father used to program the dinosaur. This is a very cool concept and the action is nonstop. If you're into fast-paced stories like Alex Rider and into gaming, this novel is for you.