West of Eden

[b:West of Eden 983898 West of Eden Harry Harrison https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1329539583s/983898.jpg 969393] is a pretty good adventure story. That makes it worth a read, but that is about all I can say for it. The world that Harrison created doesn't appeal to me. I had trouble suspending my disbelief.

I enjoyed the writing and the setting/idea, but could not really enjoy the story because of the inflation of invented words (fictional languages). Too many and most are useless, replacing absolutely ordinary words.

Really enjoyed this one! It front loads a ton of invented words for the two languages used in the world however, which makes it a bit challenging to start; there is an appendix in the back. Otherwise an interesting story with an unexpected sci-fi twist on a world where dinosaurs never went extinct and became the dominant species, instead of mammals. Have already started the next in the trilogy.

And yes, there is dinosaur sex (essentially rape). It isn't explicit though.