Zoo - James Patterson

After watching, and especcially likeng the first season, the television series, I just wanted to read the book and see how they compare.

Well, not one bit...

In the book, Jackson Oz isn't an african safari guide, but a Columbia University drop-out who runs a blog and has the HAC as a theory.  As animals start attacking people, he gets conviced he is on the right track, and travels to his friend in africa, Abe, to investigate lions.  He gets his proof there... but Abe already dies after a few pages instead of becoming a lead character in the series.  He does meet Chloe there though, and then the story jumps 5 years forward and they researched a lot of animals already, now funded by the government.  And he and his wife Chloe must do everything to give their 3 year old son a future...

Now, Shephards, his father, or even his team... they are not around in the book at all, or partially and in different (smaller) roles.  The book also finds a totally different reason for the mutations in the animal population, heck, it even is a different sort of mutation (not the pupil one from the series, but something in their olofactory glands instead).

It's a fantastic book for sure, but it seems that apart from some names and the title, the television series has nothing in common with it though... so you are in for a totally different experience even if you watched the series.

But I still feel sorry for poor Nathalie Shaw...