Next’ throws you into the fast paced world of genetics. It touches upon the mega implications of genetic research and shows the dire, apocalyptic qualities associated with gene tampering. It makes you wonder if those pea plants shouldn’t have been tampered with after all. The short chapters help accelerate the book vigorously down the Mendelavian highway. The book concludes as the characters come together in zygotene symmetry and Michael Crichtons story telling mastery is fully reviled.