Saturday 25 February 2012

Review: The Eternal War - Alex Scarrow

Title: The Eternal War
Author: Alex Scarrow
Series: Timeriders #4
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Genre: Adventure, Scifi, Children's
Published (UK):
Previous Books in Series: Timeriders, Day of the Predator, The Doomsday Code

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 destroying history . . .

A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831 - and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo . . .
If the TimeRiders can't return Lincoln to the past, the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man's land to cease fire long enough to save the future?

A minor time wave has Liam travelling back to 1831 to investigate and set right an accidental death of a young man named Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wasn't supposed to die, his destiny was to become President of the United States but someone's been messing with time ... again. After ensuring that Lincoln remains alive, Liam returns to 2001 but somehow manages to bring Lincoln with him. With Lincoln now not being able to have influence on the American Civil war everything changes. The war never ends and instead becomes a battle between the French and British on US ground.

This fourth book takes the Timeriders series in a slightly different direction from the other books in the series. The previous instalments have had a majority of the action happening in the past. This time they are in the present, even though it's a very altered present. There's a very steam-punky feel to the story with the ongoing war drastically changing how science and technology developed. Computers and cell phones are unheard of but genetic engineering is much more advanced.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I was glad the author mixed up it up a bit in terms of the story pattern set in the earlier books. The characters are developing nicely and we're starting to get to know a lot more about the Timeriders agency and how the time travel technology came about. As an extra advantage, I found that I actually learned quite a lot about the American Civil War from reading this book, as I had an extremely limited knowledge of it before hand.

I highly recommend the Timeriders series, particularly to fans of Dr Who and Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series.

Monday 20 February 2012

It's Monday - 20th February 2012




It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week hosted at Book Journey, Post the books completed last week, the books you're currently reading, and the books to be read this week. Please comment or leave a link to let me know what you're reading this week!

Completed last week



Feast of Fools (The Morganville Vampires) - Rachel Caine
TimeRiders: Gates of Rome - Alex Scarrow

Currently Reading



The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (reread)

Up soon



The Look - Sophia Bennett

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Teaser Tuesday - Gates of Rome

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should be Reading Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others.
* Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Timeriders: Gates of Rome - Alex Scarrow
They walked slowly round the duck pond, Kicking the first dry leaves of the autumn aside. They watched a young couple rollerblading ahead of them. Maddy smiled sadly, envious of the pair of them, both about her age and seemingly without a solitary care in the world.

Monday 6 February 2012

It's Monday - 5th February 2012




It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week hosted at Book Journey, Post the books completed last week, the books you're currently reading, and the books to be read this week. Please comment or leave a link to let me know what you're reading this week!

Completed last week

With the cold weather we had here over the weekend, I got a good amount of reading done ... because there's not much better than curling up with a good book and a mug of hot coffee when it's snowing outside.



TimeRiders: The Eternal War (Book 4) - Alex Scarrow
The Catastrophic History of You and Me - Jess Rothernberg
Feast of Fools (The Morganville Vampires) - Rachel Caine
Orphans of War - Leah Flemming

Currently Reading



TimeRiders: Gates of Rome (Book 5) - Alex Scarrow
Keeper of the Realms: Crow's Revenge (Book 1) - Marcus Alexander

Up soon

I've got The Left Hand of God to pick up from the library (hopefully tomorrow if I feel like venturing out in the snow). I want to read that so I can make a start on the second book. Also I figured it was about time I had a look at the Dark-Hunter series so I'll hopefully be getting to that soon.



The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman
Fantasy Lover - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Reviews

The Catastrophic History of You and Me - Jess Rothenberg

Books Received

In My Mailbox

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Sunday 5 February 2012

In My Mailbox - 5th February 2012




In My Mailbox is a weekly event exploring the books received this week and is hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren. What books did you get this week?

For Review (from publisher unless stated)

 OMG! So excited to get this one as I love the Timeriders series! Also, one book in the post means a chance to make a dent on the tbr pile.


TimeRiders: Gates of Rome - Alex Scarrow (Puffin)

For Kindle 

These were all freebies on Amazon UK earlier in the week so how could I resist?

Fake Kate - David Wailing
Undercover - Christine Wolfer
Heavenly - Jennifer Laurens
Abigail - Donna Burgess

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