It was kind of sad to finish Micro if only because it will be that last Crichton novel I ever read. The characters are well drawn and the action moves along at a near perfect pace in that way Crichton could only do it. The thing I love about books most is the ability they give me to color in between the lines. I love books when they provide just enough information for my imagination to run with. Terry Brooks and Crichton do this better than any I have read, thus making them my favorite authors.
This book feels a lot like Jurassic Park in the way it is presented, and that is not a bad thing. We are given a group of eight people thrust into a world each has great knowledge off, only to find they didn't know as much as they thought they did. I found the "science" behind the action very thought provoking and they painted it with enough realism that I believed this could really be happening.
There is a bit off a breakdown at the very end as they both leave stories right at the apex leaving the reader to finish on a high. There were some pretty obvious characters in the book and you know where the drama was going to be coming from, yet there were some very surprising twists. In the end it is a great novel and serves perfectly as a coda on Crichton's long resume.
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