The reason this ruins the book so much is that they focus on the characters more than the dinosaurs which is one of the only interesting aspects of the book. But they have their own priorities - finding a cure for the plague that's sweeping Earthasia, and keeping themselves alive. Alone, o The pacing wasn't choppy and the ending did leave me wanting more, I thought overall that the last chapter was a great set-up for the next book. I liked Lincoln less, simply because there wasn’t much reason that I could see for him keeping his family and intentions a secret.

I had a hard time empathizing with the characters, which is honest to God craziness as I am a beyond empathetic person, to a fault. The last couple of contestants are subjected to a pointless ‘trial’ yet again which involves swimming, climbing a cliff and throwing knives at people. You know the names of all dinosaurs, but you don’t know anything about their anatomy or their intelligence, you claim you’ve only just figured out what a blasted DNA is and yet you boast you can manufacture a disease that can kill creatures of a specific DNA straight up.A set of trials is created to see who can travel to the land of the dinosaurs and collect the highest number of eggs for testing.

The character development is great and lets you get a proper feeling of the characters and isn't rushed in any way. Storm’s and Loncoln’s story arc and character development are brilliantly written, I think by the end Lincoln has fully redeemed himself after events in the first book. Both characters had to much else to worry about than each other, and it was more a growing of trust than of romantic feelings. I found the extinction trials really good I thought near the end when you used like finding a needle in a haystack really fit in with what it was being compared to I loved how it’s based in the dinosaur age and how Stormchaser found a dinosaur and believed it is friendly because when you hear about dinosaurs? there normally not friendly bot milo the plesiosaur sounded friendly to me and when I was reading I could picture the story in my head!Regardless of being sorry, he still has the same attitude that he started with, showing little to no real development or change throughout the book. Alone, on Earthasia because her mother has died and she has no other family…… she has quite a shield around her.

I don't know how many times I've been let down by the second book and by the third, I've totally lost interest. The story is a lot like hunger games but with dinosaurs, and you enter the trials of your own free will. It takes her quite a bit of the book to come to a final realisation of where she stands, and I was so enthralled in her journey to that point. After slight hints and a long nothing, both of the people were like, “oh, I feel more about this person than I did before…” and I was like, do you really?It’s a book I can’t wait to share with my children when they get a little bit older, until then, I’ll be keeping it safe for them. Personally I found this book amazing because it tells us what is happening and it shows what happens and it builds lots of suspense. When a trial is being organised to see who would be fit to go on an expedition to Piloria lots of people enter. The duel narrative between Stormchaser and Lincoln also helps the reader engage and empathise with their decisions as they get to know more about them as the adventure unfolds.