Endangered Species (Lost)

Features

• Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 208 pages
• Published by: Hyperion November 1, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0786890908
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0786890903
• Book Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 0.6 ounces

Product Description
LOST, the television series, takes place on a remote South Pacific island, where a plane crash has left 48 survivors stranded. In ENDANGERED SPECIES we read about Faith, an environmental activist and reptile specialist, whose dream industry conference turns into a nightmare and lands her among the survivors on the island. While Locke isn-t suspicious of her, there are more than a few others who openly wonder about how much she uses her knowledge to help - or to terrorize -- the other survivors. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Reader Reviews
Until I see the name Umberto Eco on the spine of a novel based on the TV series "Lost", I am going to have low expectations. I knew going in that "Lost: Endangered Species" was going to be pretty dreadful. But I love the show, I crave the show, and I had to own and read the book. It's thin and it's low cost, so it wasn't too much of a strain to pick it up. I agree that it's odd to have a book that's not about any of the "Lost" characters we know on TV. Maybe if you think about it, that 1 1/2 seasons of the show stretches through only seven weeks of real time, then you'll realize there's not a lot of room to tell original stories about these people. This book is about a different Flight 815 survivor, never seen on TV, and alternates chapters about her experiences on the island with chapters about how she came to be there. The TV characters are only seen in between scenes from the two-hour pilot episode. Faith is an annoying, naive character, who passively gets led by the nose throughout the book, until really bad things happen. Another novel-only character harrasses her on the island until she is predictably forced to save his life. There's no hatch here, no Dharma Initiative, no Others, no sharks with logos on their tail fins. There are no sci-fi elements to this novel, and no real sense of danger anywhere in the island scenes. The title "Endangered Species" leads you to believe that there could be a Dharma Initiative tie-in to the "paradise parrot" seen throughout the book, but it isn't there. Maybe later "Lost" books, if there are any, will delve deeper into the TV series mythology. Then again, if you read the copyright page, you see that Touchstone owns copyright and pays a flat fee to the writers; these books are quickies not meant to be the cutting edge of TV tie-in fiction. If you just want to read low-impact stories about the island on "Lost", help yourself. I will probably read the second book in the series, but doubt I will ever have to invest the same emotional energy that I reserve for the actual show.