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Come daylight the mama-saurs basically ate the jeep trying to get there eggs out from it. They manage it and little baby Dino’s make it out.

Sarah goes back to the other car to try to jump start it but is caught by a trex and dogson. Stuck under the cars he pushed him out in revenge for pushing her off the boat where the Rex carried him back to his babies. They ate the flesh off his face while he was alive

From here the parallels to the new Jurassic world movie are everywhere.

The good guys go to a gas station where they camp out for a while. Thorne goes out to look for gas and finds that there are camouflaging Dino’s outside staring at him. They manage to get them to leave by turning the lights on and off and shining flashlights on them. This made it hard for there camp to adapt and frustrated the Dino’s.

This explains why the steam vents are littered with bones but not why the raptors seem okay building the nest in the area.

The other curious item is why the raptors seem to be afraid of the lab. Was it that they were following S&K or another reason. T-Rex territory?


Couple final thoughts.
Women characters are much stronger in this book if a little one note.
Writing has been very good, feels like you’re there

Behavioral evolution however can not be inherited through dna it needs to be taught. At Jurassic park however these learned traits are not passed down yet because they didn’t have parents to learn them from. This explains why all the animals seem young or small. They lost a lot of the skills they would have typically had.

Why the bones? Malcom seems to know but my theory is it has to do with volcanos or acidity

They run out of gas’s and need to head downhills to coast away. The raptors at this point foxing S&K back to the trailer where they smoke bomb them and get Malcom.

During all of this we cut back to Malcom who has been thinking.
He theorizes that physical evolution is only half the story and that the driving force for survival is behavioral and cultural evolution.

Earlier in the book S mentioned she would have thought there would be more skeletons or atleast more prey to support the number of predators. Well there are a ton of bones in the raptor nest. Curiously bigger than the raptors should have been able to drag. The area is described as a steam bed.

They see Arby moving and pull the whole cage into the back of the jeep and gun jt out of there back to the trailer.

Malcom gets absolutely toked on heroon
Raptors climb the height hide and pull Eddie over the side. L tries to get Arby onto the roof but A falls off as well. E gets eaten but A makes it into the shark cage. One of the raptors gets the key stuck in its mouth and S&K follow it on the bike. It takes a while but they eventually shoot it

The raptors pull the cage off to there nest. T&RL follow in the jeep.

Thorne uses kings jeep to save Malcom and Sarah. They used rope to climb up the trailer barely making it before the bottom unit fell.

Raptors slowly approach the high hide which Levine is not worried about. They have found a liking for candy bars while eating Kking.
RL isn’t worried about the raptors seeing them but they smelled the candy wrapper he let float away to test the wind earlier and looked up at him

At first they were solely focused on saving the baby but after getting it from harms way they begin attacking the trailer. Luckily Levine had the kids moved out to the high hide first.

They push the trailer off the cliff but it’s connected to the second. Inside Sarah is trying to save them while Malcom lies barely conscious on a lab table. She flicks all the buttons in the lower panel hoping for the best…

King heading towards the boat is eaten by raptors in front of the good guys.

Dogson wakes up while being eaten by compys (rude). He runs away but they seem annoyed that they couldn’t finish eating. They’re slightly venomous so we’ll see what happens. He hides in a shed

Sarah and Malcom try to save the baby Rex, d stepped on. They make him a cast but mama shows up pissed.

One of the Rex ate dolselton who had stepped on a babies leg. Dogson and king drove away quickly. They ran off the road and dogson leaping out of the car hit his head.

The good guys had to put down the baby who had been stepped on and Eddie brought it back to camp. Probably a terrible idea.

Oh and they found Sarah using the cameras. She’s fine and a total bad ass

Levine realizes he didn’t actually make
The Dino’s horny, they just needed to pee. Following them
Into the woods he realized they have a ritual toilet spot similar to deer.

Dogson used some sonar device to spook Dino’s off there nests long enough to take there eggs. The first one it worked like a charm. Next the came to the Rex nest.
The cord disconnected and alarm sound turned off. Rex came back pissed

She wakes up at the feet of a big Dino and falls back asleep.

Dogson plans to use satellite images as a way to quickly find eggs and get back off the island in sub 4 hours

Levine makes a bunch of Dino’s horny. Swear to god

The good guys set up the high hide and make observations on the Dino’s. M and RL notice that there are two Dino’s that seem to team up. One big and strong the other has better senses to detect predators. They combine to scare off some raptors.

Meanwhile Sarah hitches a ride to the island with dogson who kindly throws her over the side of the boat. What a guy.

She manages by dumb luck to get to shore

Levine followed after the Rex on a bicycle to Malcom’s astonishment. They follow him to a Rex nest as RL is adjusting a camera to better point at the eggs and youngsters. Levine falls out of the tree and is pleasantly surprised to see throne there. They both scoot out of there on T’s motorcycle as the rec charges them defending its nest.

Levine, pissed to see that the kids are there, is happy to have help

Malcom Thorne and Eddie connect to Levine gps signal and follow it do the manufacturing plant. Inside they learn that this is where most of the eggs are counter because there was such a high mortality rate they needed to make tons of eggs

The kids were in the trailer hiding out. They had to pee real bad. Classic.
Arby connected to the ingen network and could see the cameras around the island. Dinosaurs are real

Malcom throne and Eddie make it through customs and onto the island

They’re friend who studies hyenas might be able to make it by boat tomorrow but they can’t fly in as the only chateravle helicopter is doing something else.

Landing on the island we are further introduced to the character of Eddie who is 24 and a wiz at fixing stuff works for throne.

They trio see compies and find parts of Levine bag

Malcom’s office is broken into

The children Malcom and Thorne search Kevin Ed apartment for clues and discover which island Levine is on.

Levine apartment is similar to an office as it’s very sterile and overly clean

Richard Levine is on an island probably isle nubar when he and his assistant are attacked. They smell something foul right before so it’s probably a carnivore Dino.

Malcom analysis the samples be received and it’s a bird/reptile that was raised in captivity. His relationship with RL has gotten better.

Dogson hires a PI to follow the old team.

Kelly and Arby, kids who work for RL call him and hear distress

Heir to the American girl doll fortune Richard Levine is a asshole. And also one of the smartest and wealthiest men on the planet. He is particularly interested in dinosaurs and theroizes that they may have survived the previous extinctions. Evidence towards his theory is that big blizzards keep appearing in the Carribian dead.

Ian Malcom assures him ingen did not create dinosaurs but coasts rica is cagey

Nora “Seed” was the potential to grow into something

“Ash” was the man who would burn down her perceptions

In the end she was happy

Nora has gotten better at learning about herself playing a game with her daughter to mine for information. She still feels like she is taking someone’s life. Stepping in years too late.


Ultimately she is going to return to her root life and fix some of the things she regrets

Nora explores many of her lives at one point t she references thousands of them but she begins to lose focus in what she wants to achive.
When she returns to the library it’s dark. She feels like she has seen all there is to see and none of them fit. There are infinitely more books to read.
Mrs elm directs her to pick one that she felt a kindness from. Ash who she married and have a kid. Helped her cat

Jordan’s writing process began as summarizing what he believed the sequence would be and interjecting with comments and questions that he would fill out later. Once he had a general outline he will fill it out with prose. This often left hints to his original ideas and changes such as Taim and Damondred originally being one person
We are now in the glossary so I will likely be skimming through the end of the book

The plot of these books changed dramatically from the original outline with secondary characters taking many achievements from Rand as well as Rand having more time to drvelop his relationships instead of allowing of his taveren nature forcing them into an accelerated course

Matrim Cauthon named for cotton Matthew an advocate of witches being burned in the Salem witch trail highlights his fear of aes sadai. Math was a general in king authors days known for his luck

Sa’angreal comes from the Bible as a note on the whole grail

Sha’tain the dark one is satan

This list goes on and on for every character was very intentionally named

Rand al’Thor - king author

Nyneve was named for women in the white godess who tricked a women named moraine into a cave stuck between life and death for eternity. The tower moraine was trapped in plus her role in the final scene, a cave

Padan fain - fain = to fake

Thom Merillan hints at Merlin the wizard and Thomas Doritaty owner of Tor

This book is incredibly cool. There are so many intentional choices that flew right over my head.

Names have never really been important to me when reading but to Jordan they were everything. He labored and tweaked names endlessly in his opening drafts hinting at characters arcs rooted in history and mythology.

I’ll note a couple examples in the next summary

Jordan was inspired by three major works. The white godess which examined the lore of story’s and there interconnectedness, the tales of king author which consolidated his many story’s into one and LOTR which gave him permission make his own story using these ideas.

Jordan uses a broken ying yang as the symbol for aes Sadai to symbolize the error in exclusion and distilling identities down to one trait

Jordan’s assistant shed light on his perspective from Vietnam in that when you kill it breaks the barrier you have of us vs them. You have to push past it but it leaves a TAINT on u. Interesting to consider the dark ones taint in that light