I had a lot of expectations from the book but it turned out to be a very tepid read. The author has built up the suspense and thrills at the right places but somehow the plot and climax was just about average. Generally, he gives a great logical premise and conclusion to his stories with a simplifying explanation to scientific theories built around the plot. Here I found these explanations difficult to understand and to some extent unbelievable. But the book was engaging to a certain extent. However, the protagonist's wife's character was annoying.

Prey definitely was the kind of book I needed, fast paced and exciting from the beginning to end. Need to try and read more by him rather soon

Review later when I actually have time!

Michael Crichton introduced us to Jurassic Park where indeed was the greatest predator lived on the planet, well, that is past now. But what about the future? Are humans going to be the only predator until the world ends? Or there is a chance of something else like technology may be..

Michael Crichton's Prey is an adventurous ride showing us scenics of how technology can be unfolded if we put only human part of humans into them. Prey, as the name suggests, is a tiring journey for the protagonist solving problems, saving lives, some fights and ultimately winning against all odds. That was all about this book but the theme of nanotechnology evolving into a predator every hour every minute every second and every nanosecond will keep you entertained and will never let you guess along the ride that how this can be washed out. For me, it was a new sub-genre of a genre which thrown a lot of doubts and thoughts that how one day can technology come to its own limits where there will be nothing more beyond a particular discovery. Could be coming up a nano-Jurassic park world in the field of technology.

Extremely suspenseful and exciting. The terrifying science was explained in a very understable yet stil technical way. This was my first book by Chrichton and can’t wait for the next one. Open to recommendations

The most terrifying thing about this book might not be the killer robots, but instead the terrible marriage thats written in excruciating detail.

This book was actually really good and I liked it a lot more than I originally thought I would. Sci-Fi usually isn’t something I go to but I think I will a lot more now thanks to this book. It’s really interesting because theoretically this is something that can eventually happen. The characters are also great and I really like how their storylines evolved and how they interacted with one another based on their relationships.

This was easily Michael Crichton's weakest plot recently. The novel still manages to be engaging as Michael, even at his near-worst, always seems to be able to bring characters to life through dialogue rather than descriptions. The plot is fast-paced, the story-telling is engaging, but... as the plot unfolds, it is starting to verge on the ridiculous.

Swarms of nanoparticles imitate their hosts and create doppelgaengers that interact with real people. Yea right. Not that realism is a valid benchmark for literature. But internal consistency is. It is not good "craftsmanship" if a novel starts out as a fast-paced thriller and half-way through changes its mind and wishes to be a SciFi/Horror novel in the style of Peter F Hamilton. I think, anyway.

Here's a rough breakdown of Prey:

1st 20%: Virtually unreadable trash. Where was the editor?!? 0 stars
2nd 65%: Solid, Crichton technothriller. Exciting, smart, and hard to put down. 4 stars
Final 15%: Very, very dumb if mildly entertaining. 2 stars

Overall, very inconsistent with some excellent parts. Prey reads like a solid first draft. It needed additional revisions before being released

An experiment has gone wrong in the Nevada desert releasing nanoparticles that are a complete lifeform in themselves. These nanoparticles become an ever increasingly dangerous predator

Honestly, I had the hardest time rating this book, for a number of reasons, I don't know where to start but I will say the premise really held my interest.

At a high-tech Nanorobotics facility in the Nevada Desert, where scientists have been developing a new experiment, using nano-bots on human test subjects. But it goes horribly wrong, and a cloud of the micro-robots has escaped from the facility, and is self-sustaining and self-reproducing, becoming a near unstoppable force and causing death and destruction with whatever it comes into contact with, and the longer it's out there, the more deadly it becomes.

The husband of one of the Lab employees, Jack Forman, a stay-at-home-father after being fired from a software programming company, goes to the lab to dig deeper and get to the bottom of the issue, but once he arrives, he realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he is up against more than he was expecting.

A fascinating, yet scary tale by Michael Crichton, involving nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence. The story and setting kept me guessing right up until the end, which just let me say this, the ending you will never see coming. The only reason for my not giving Prey a 5-star rating would have to be I felt that some of the dialogue seemed kinda cheesy, but other than that, a really good book!

This book was written twenty years ago yet it still pertains to a possible future. The characters drew me in to a slowly unfolding plot. If you enjoy science mixed with thrillers, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this book. I did.