Shelly Taylor says "Jurassic Park is a bit boring at the beginning. If you have seen the film, there is a lot that happens before they even go to the island. But once this book gets going, BOY! does it get going!". It is about Alan Grant, a paleontologist, who is invited to an island with a "never before tried" theme park on it. He is invited by the founder of the company that built it, John Hammond. Along with fellow digger, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, lawyer Gennaro and mathematician Ian Malcolm, he stupidly agrees to take a look at the island.