Ancestor

Terrible

Lots of things to like. Simple, fast and formulaic. Read it fast and forget it as fast!

A typical tale of man playing God by tweaking genetics and creating a monstrous creature. The action really gets going in the later part of the book when the ‘Ancestors' are born.

A team of research scientists have been illegally working on isolating the genome of the common ancestor of all mammalian life, with the goal of creating chimera creatures that can grow organs that can be harvested for human use.

As one might expect, all goes horribly wrong, and the research scientists soon find themselves hunted by the creatures, just as the largest storm of the year comes barreling through.

Equal parts Jurassic Park, The Thing, and Repo: the Genetic Opera, you might get a certain sense of familiarity when reading Ancestor, but Sigler's strong characterization and dark sense of humour are on full display here, which makes for a very enjoyable read.