The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

Jurassic Park meets How to Train your Dragon. I can't think of a better way to describe this book.
A fantastic read, which drew me in from the very beginning, and refused to let go throughout this breathtakingly dizzying action-packed fun fest!
Set up with a minimum of exposition, and a little background to China's socio-economic status, when the story gets going, it REALLY gets going.
The book reads like the Hollywood blockbuster I'm sure it will become, and I continually found myself imagining how the dragons will look on-screen. And to be honest, that's made easy thanks to the wonderfully vivid descriptions Reilly gives us. Every scene, character, and action sequence is written perfectly in the context of the story, and it all blends together to create a brilliantly unique reading experience. I've rarely, if ever, read a book so focused on action, and this pulls it off.
At times the book verges on the excessive, and the quite frankly silly, but somehow this doesn't take anything away from it.
Rip-roaring stuff.

Thanks to Gallery Books, via NetGalley for the free copy to review.