Book info

• Title TimeRiders: Day of the Predator
• Author Alex Scarrow
• Year 2010
• Genre Science Fiction

When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn't have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he's torn to pieces by dinosaurs - and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?

Thoughts

I read the first book of this series a while back and although I enjoyed the time travel subject, I wasn’t completely sold on the book itself. However, I was always going to give the second one a go and when I couldn’t decide what to read off my list, I thought I’d head back to my favourite sci-fi concept.

Having already set up all the characters and the set up of the time travelling agency, this second book was a much more enjoyable and easy read. It probably also helped that I had just finished the Clan of the Cave Bear recently, as a lot of this book was set in dinosaur/jungle times.

I enjoyed the book, particularly the twist in the end - which I only saw coming a few paragraphs before it actually happened - and I’m looking forward to the next one. I’m also happy to see that the series is set at nine books, which means there’s a story arc that will hopefully come to a nice neat conclusion.

Rating: 4 / 5