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The no. 1 bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel The One Impossible Labyrinth out now.
"A big bold blockbuster" Sydney Morning Herald
It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed.
The Chinese are ready to unveil their fabulous creatures in the greatest zoo ever constructed. VIPs and journalists, including reptile expert Dr Cassandra Jane 'CJ' Cameron, are invited to see the beasts for the first time.
The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they are perfectly safe, that nothing can go wrong.
Of course it can't...
Fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton will love Matthew Reilly.
PRAISE FOR THE GREAT ZOO OF CHINA
"a heady mixture of everything old and new in the popular thriller" Saturday Age
"urgent pacing and whiplash action" West Australian
"The story rapidly races through a series of increasingly spectacular action set pieces to the final breathless conclusion" Sydney Morning Herald
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMacmillan Australia
- Publication date10 November 2014
- File size10652 KB
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Matthew Reilly is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels in several series, including the childrens book Hover Car Racer, and the Jack West Jr. action adventure series. His books have been published in more than twenty languages and have sold more than seven million copies worldwide.
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I enjoyed The Great Zoo of China from start to finish and found it difficult to put down. It's fun, it's tense, action-packed and rewarding with a subtle humour that offsets all the action and bloodletting. A Hollywood Blockbuster in Book form. (SFBOOK.COM)
The science and the setting of "The Great Zoo of China" make the scenario completely believable. The action is overwhelming, making the reader feel giddy as the pages fly. You will believe that dragons are real. (WASHINGTON POST)
When it comes to thrillers from Matthew Reilly, phrases like 'high octane' and 'intense action' don't even come close to adequately convey how much insanity he manages to cram into every novel. I've come to expect twisty-turny plots that rattle along at a breakneck pace and that I'll be so caught up that I'll be frightened to even blink. The good news is that The Great Zoo of China is no exception to this rule. (THEELOQUENTPAGE)
A very exciting book... I loved every page of The Great Zoo of China. It's undemanding, great fun to read, thrilling, exciting, gory and did I say thrilling? (FORWINTERNIGHTS)
Brace yourself for non-stop action... Fast furious, this is a must read for fans of Matthew Reilly and the action genre. (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST)
'If you liked Jurassic Park prepared to be totally blown away by this action-packed blockbuster.' (PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Nobody writes action like Matthew Reilly.' (Vince Flynn, New York Times bestselling author) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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- ASIN : B00LBQWH76
- Publisher : Macmillan Australia (10 November 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 10652 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 463 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 62,330 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 3,893 in Suspense Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 4,585 in Contemporary Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 4,593 in Suspense Thrillers (Books)
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Matthew Reilly is the international bestselling author of eight novels: The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow, and the children's book Hover Car Racer, and one novella, Hell Island. His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
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The lack of backstory and mythology present in the Jack West series makes it more fast paced, actually.
There's less world-building as it's set in just one location, and doesn't build into other stories.
Thanks, Matt, for a wonderful trip to the Great Zoo of China.
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I didn’t have a clue what this one was about when I started reading, other than a Chinese zoo (obviously) as I was reading on Kindle (not easy to get to a blurb in my opinion).
Let’s start with a positive, I liked the theme of the book, a Dragon zoo, but I quickly started to draw comparisons with Jurassic Park (a fact which the author acknowledges in the review at the end of the book). MR must have realised this on his proofing/feedback of early versions as at around the time when I started to think that is when everything just goes to pot with the dragons trying to escape.
From there it is an incredibly unbelievable storyline from an action point of view (not a problem for me, that’s what I wanted) and found that the whole dragon aspect did seem well done. Particular standout points (without spoilers) were how the dragons survived, the links to other mythologies, and the idea of their pack mentality.
My criticism comes from his use of exclamation marks, almost as if MR can’t believe what he had written (I think I have said this before in a review of another book of his). If you are like me you will hear the story unfolding with a series of “OMG’s!!!” being shouted at you - I somehow managed to ignore the exclamation marks after around 50% of reading the book and see through to the real content.
I initially wanted to give the book only 3 out of five because of this, but on reflection, the story and the setting were well described (the maps did help). I would not say don’t read the book, just… try and get over the exclamation points as soon as you can! That was an intentional exclamation mark to make a point, not an over use ;-)



I enjoyed the book - it's fun, action packed and gory. It's also pretty well written. The main character CJ is a bit of a Mary Sue but she's likeable, and the plot cracks along at real pace. If anything there are actually too many action scenes and far too many moments where a dragon swoops in, kills someone and swoops back out again.
It's also not a story that's going to leave much impact after you've read it - what it is a fun OTT creature feature and does the job perfectly if that's what you're looking for in your next read.
