Book info

• Title TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code
• Author Alex Scarrow
• Year 2011
• Genre Science Fiction

In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam's name get in there... and why? Confronted by Adam in 2001, the TimeRiders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing, they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future...

Thoughts

I started this one immediately after finishing the second book in the series, and got stuck in. They are such page turners, and the time travel is so enticing that I read it in just a few hours (not all at once). I wasn’t quite so keen on how many other characters were brought into the picture in this one. It’s fun to see the time travellers interacting with others, but having to convince people about time travel over and over isn’t as much fun.

Having said that, I enjoyed the way that Adam tracked the trio down and his help was very important in keeping the story moving. Quite a lot of the action occurred in the past, whereas previous books have flicked back to the present more often, but it felt like there was far too much story to get through in the forests of Nottingham and Sherwood.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed this one and am keen to keep reading the rest of the series.

Rating: 3 / 5