by
Alex Scarrow
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.
Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘Take my hand ...’
But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren’t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose—to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That’s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world..
REVIEW:
I bought this book from the New Delhi Book Fair 2014 at a discount. After reading this book, I realised I wouldn't have mind paying more for it either!
This is a young adult novel, the first of 9 (!) books, perfect for sci-fi fans. It is the story of how three different people saved from death, from three different time zones come together to make a team that polices time! Liam O'Connor, from 1912 was saved from the TITANIC. Madeline "Maddy" Carter, from 2010 was saved from a plane that was about to be bombed by terrorists and Saleena "Sal" Vikram, from 2026 was saved from burning to death in a fire. And these three find each other in the year 2001 in New York. What happened in New York in 2001 in the month of september? Aaaaand that is not it. We also go to the year 2066, 1963 (John F. Kennedy's assasination), pre and post World War II era (Hitler) and the end of the world !!!!!
So many time frames!
Phew.
And here I thought this book will be about to save a certain girlfriend/ wife/ husband from dying in an accident.
The author wasn't kidding when he said that if you mess with time, the world you know will become a world you don't.
There are people from the future who are messing with time travel and changing everything you can find in your history text books. For example, what would have happened if John F. Kennedy would have lived longer? The job of these three is to see that no one alters a major event because "what goes around comes around".
I was hooked to this book. It was so thrilling and so so clever with many twists and turns enough to keep you open mouthed. The author made the characters go through a lot and a certain death scene at the end was disgusting and painful.
My favorite character from the book was
You just don't see what is coming up next in this book. Rather series because I've been told the second book has dinosaurs in it! See open- mouth, right?
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