I loved Michael Crichton's Micro. I couldn't put it down. It was also bittersweet. I'm glad that Richard Preston completed it, and I'm sorry that it's the last Michael Crichton novel. (I'm hoping another will turn up somewhere.)

This one is set in Hawaii, and it reminds me of his novel Timeline. Seven graduates students agree to take a tour of a lab in Hawaii, and they encounter a ruthless megalomaniac who wants to win at all costs. His company has taken nanotechnology to a whole new world. And he sends the students there to make sure that they don't thwart his plans.

The book is exciting, and it's fast paced. There are some surprises and twists in the plot. I definitely look at bugs differently now. And the bat scenes were a little creepy (but I'm not their biggest fan).

It's fun a holiday read.