Day of the Predator (TimeRiders #2)

by Alex Scarrow

  

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.

But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose—to prevent time travel from destroying history . . .

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?

REVIEW: 

I was sooooo excited to read this book because I really liked the first one. It was a very different kind of reading experience for me. And this book did not disappoint at all. In fact it makes me crave the third book. After reading the LAST line, i was like:        


Not kidding!
Gimme the third book now! This series is awesome!

In the first book we saw Liam, Maddy and Sal get recruited as time riders whose job was to preserve the world and its timeline. In this book, with Foster gone ( :"( ), Maddy has become the strategic leader and the team's next assignment is to prevent the assassination of the discoverer of the concept of time travel. Another time traveler group wants to kill him but that would mean changing history's course yet again. So, Liam and the support unit (Its a girl this time aaaand she like Liam aaand the feeling is mutual I feel) go to the year 2015 to prevent that but there, accidentally, Maddy opens another time window and these two along with some other students get transported to the Golden Age of Dinosaurs! Read the book to find out how they come back to the present or do they even???

My favorite character in the book is Liam. He is just too cute and yes, I pity him but his strength and smartness need to be praised. Maddy is showing growth. She has got a lot of responsibility and you do see her bending under its weight but she will manage. For some reason, I feel there will be a love triangle between Maddy, Liam and the support unit Beck in the sequels. Sal was more like a side~y character this time and I want that to change. Becks is such an adorable lifesaver and she went through so much. I was scared for her towards the end.

The plot was action packed in both 2001 and millions of years ago. The time zones have been described brilliantly and accurately. The only thing that I had a love- hate relation was the lack of actual dinosaurs. The villains ie. our ancestors (?) were such ruthless, horrifying, blood crazy creatures who killed without mercy. I should have been a duck instead of a human.

This book is about survival, intelligence, team work, gruesome deaths, mystery, friendship, hidden truths, adventure, explorations, different present scenarios and fossils. Read this series! 
RATING: 4/ 5 stars