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May 28, 2012KileyP rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The Games is a great play on the popular dystopia, and timed perfectly (I'm sure it was planned that way) with the upcoming summer Olympics. In the (not so) distant future, the Olympics have had a gruesome new spectacle added to their round up - the gladiator battle. Instead of worrying about geneticists altering humans who compete in the classic portion, the Olympic Council gave science their own sport. Countries build/grow their own hideous mash-up of animal DNA and breed it to compete in a battle to the death. Sounds like a pretty straight-forward story, right? Wrong. What happens when you have a supercomputer (created by a crazy man) create the chimera? This book didn't leap out at me as fantastic - it's a great read, and has some interesting concepts. However, it could have been so much more than it was, and the ending quickly became typical for me. But overall a refreshing perspective on mad-scientist-creates-crazy-animal topic.