The Rewilding by Robert Evans

Further thoughts might get a bit spoilery. Honestly did not know what to expect when I first read this as my horror taste runs towards vampires, ghosts/supernatural and this is eco/science horror but again not sure but I did really like this. Using the real world initiative called rewilding which involves reintroducing extinct animals back into a place they were once native to. So we get a big red flag when we see that Kelvin the disgraced tech genius rich guy has brought back some prehistoric predators not really adapted to the Scottish wilds also they are some other more modern predatory animals that are used to having large parcels of land to roam but are now fighting to get food which is causing unusual behaviour. Into this we get Steph Patel who is a field biologist but seems to be making a career writing about cryptids which is never really explained that comes to investigate a young boy's death that gets her mixed up in the mysterious initiative that Kelvin is doing when trying to get a look at his base. Like I said this had massive Jurassic park vibes and we know how well that went 😬.

I did really like this book if I had to find faults I guess maybe I wish we knew more about Steph's backstory and why she is writing books on cryptids but I guess as this only 320 pages we can't really go too deep again same with some characters it seems like we don't get time to know them well, I might have also want to spend some more time in the village and see how the people felt about this strange rich guy and maybe some anger at the death of a young child but with the length I understand it wouldn't happen and honestly it was great and this just my small quibbles.