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Ran errands this morning & stopped off for coffee, banana bread & some #LitsyLove replies. (Yes, I‘m behind again…)

Also finished the tagged book. Nostalgia for Michael Crichton & this being his last book that James Patterson finished made me want to give this a pick but the writing & undeveloped story & characters are just so-so. It does read like a thriller movie & reading it on the plane flying around the islands & to-&-from⬇️

I think it's really cool that Michael Crichton started this book before his death and that James Patterson was able to come in afterwards to pick up and complete the story. Was it my favorite book? No, it wasn't. But I enjoyed the #audiobook reading experience all the same.

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⬗ Also, I hope the scenario depicted in this book is not something we could potentially have to deal with one day in real life.
⬗ My first ever audiobook by Scott Brick (who so many people love), he‘s not about to be a favorite but he was decent.

I have never read anything by these two authors. This is not my typical genre to read. It was for a book club I'm in. There is a lot of action and sadness. I thought there were some corny lines. It was just okay for me. But if you're a fan of these two, you'll probably really enjoy it.

Not a great read. No dinosaurs. 🦕 🦖

But beyond that it‘s Patterson, do not doubt. Short chapters, underdeveloped characters that you neither like nor want to root for.

You will get action & scary-nature feels coz, 🌋

Rich WP remain sucking flaccid donkey teat, as we are well-known to do. It did make me want to devote more time to learning Hawaiian though.

Yikes. This book has WAYYYYYY too many loose ends, the whatever-you-call-it between Mac and Jenny (or Rebecca? Who knows) was laughable, and none of the characters were likable, memorable or interesting! It made me mad because the first 100 pages were so good and then it all went downhill. And the END? Woof. (41)
⭐️: 2.25/5

This book was exactly what I was expecting it to be: fast, action-packed and thrilling. It was a little hard to wrap my head around the more technical science stuff but as long as I just went along for the ride I was good 😁. It feels like a summer blockbuster movie so it‘s pretty perfect for the end of summer reading! 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thanks to @dabbe for tagging me and @rachelsbrittain for hosting #weekendreads I haven‘t had much time to read because I‘m hanging with my daughter and granddaughter, so I‘ve been trying to keep up with the #hashtagbrigade and while I‘m driving I‘ve been listening to the tagged book.

Road trip audio book!

Well if this is a "can't put down" book. May give up trying to get anything done today and just read.
Finished & loved the excitement. Have been to Volcanoes Nat'l Park & walked through lava tubes so found the science pretty interesting & of course the story thrilling. Crichton & Patterson what more can you ask for in a thriller.

I‘m glad that Crichton‘s wife allowed Patterson to finish her late husband‘s novel based on a mega volcanic explosion on the big Hawaiian island. It‘s not filled with enough scientific explanations that Crichton would have added but it gives you the dreaded fear of what a giant volcanic explosion would be like. I miss Michael Crichton. 🌋🌋🌋

A big bucket of popcorn summer blockbuster of a book. Heavy on the action and light on character development. As advertised.

Lots of action as you can expect from two authors like these fine ones. As you know Michael had the basic outline for this book before his death. Patterson undoubtedly added a lot of the action.

I haven‘t been this excited about a book in quite a while. I love a good disaster movie. The more over the top it is the more I love it! And this book looks like a disaster movie waiting to happen. And who wouldn‘t love a book started by Michael Crichton and finished by James Patterson?! I only hope I am not over-hyping it to myself! I‘ll let you know😉

#LitsyLove #disasters

Fast-paced, blockbuster, natural disaster nonsense. Exactly what I needed. The perfect Father‘s Day book. Divine.

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I kept thinking all along that this could have been a fabulous book if Crichton had been writing it. Patterson is great at fast-paced thrill rides, but he doesn't have M.C.'s depth. Then that ending. Ugh. It left me as ticked as Andromeda Strain did. If you like b movie like disaster stories, you'll probably enjoy this one. I did enjoy it. But I was supremely disappointed in the end.

When Michael Crichton passed away in 2008, he left behind an unfinished manuscript. His wife, Sherri, took those notes to James Patterson to complete it. And what a team the two of them make! This books lives up to all the anticipation surrounding it. This is your fun summer thriller! Fast-paced, well researched, and full of tension and adventure, Eruption is what I call the perfect "popcorn book" and it reads like a summer blockbuster.

I really enjoyed this. It was a little more Patterson than Crichton but Scott Brick narrates and he narrates some of Crichton‘s best so it felt great. I could see it be a disaster movie. Wish there was a little more Crichton description but it only warranted a small reduction in my enjoyment.

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Ehhhhh. I've read multiple Crichton book and no Patterson books, and this book read to me like a watered down Crichton book. I felt like it needed a little more science to go with the action and more complex characters. I probably would have liked it more as a straight up disaster movie.

I finished the Julie Anne Long historical romance last night and decided I was in the mood for a disaster thriller. So I picked up Eruption.🌋

This was one of my most anticipated books of the summer and it did not disappoint. This was a different read for me but when I found out that James Patterson was going to adapt Michael Crichton‘s manuscript I know I had to read it. This was such a thrilling read and it was fascinating for me to read about the volcanoes.
Thank you so much to Little, Brown and Co and James Patterson‘s Street Team for the advance copy of this novel!