Plot: This novel features a rollicking plot—although quite a few plot threads are never resolved. Still, the primary plot is wacky enough to work.
Prose: The prose is solid, simple, and peppered with surprising sex scenes to keep readers turning pages. There's also fascinating information about dinosaurs that's cleverly woven into the book.
Originality: Although its subject matter has been covered before, this novel has enough twists and turns and zany characters to feel fresh and engaging.
Character Development: The author presents an offbeat, memorable, and (mostly) believable cast of characters.
In Robertson’s Oregon one hundred years from now, dinosaurs roam the earth, while humans are busy cutting off their own exit. Robertson, a notable local poet and fiction writer, throws his readers into the soup with love, loss, and extinction (and a very sinister cameo); the thrills in this one are metaphysical as well as primordial, as you’ll see when you dip in.
Howard W. Robertson's new novel, LOVE IN THE CRETACEOUS, has been named a Book Excellence Award Finalist.