Science Fiction -- 3 stars
Breakthrough Series - Book 2
Fantastical biology, imagined future technology, international intrigue, and a benevolent alien. This time, the Chinese are smuggling something out of South America and both the Russians and the Americans are watching. In the meantime, a billionaire animal activist is also in South America and searching for a lost monkey. The first book in this series was silly but fast moving and fun and offered something to think about. This book starts out slowly and takes silly to a new level. I'm not one to stop reading because I think a book is bad, (you never know what you might be missing); and in this case, that was a good thing. The second half of the book picks up and the story moves along. But still absent was the thought behind the silly. The reward for sticking with it comes at the end. The epilogue brings the thought provoking element into the story at last. Clever imaginings of a future world are good, but more thought and less imagination would have made this a better book...or a better short story.
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