The Extinction Trials (The Extinction Trials #1): 01

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Maybe if I was 12 and hadn't grown up watching Jurassic Park every day after preschool (90s kids amiright? These are yearly trips and the survival of humanity potentially hinges on them so why the effing heck did they make this a all-serious competition? I loved every single part of the book, and I think that it is a brilliant book because of the fact that it is set in a period of time where the dinosaurs are still alive. This year it’s different, the scientists are after something else from the finalists of the trials, who are a mixture of young/old. 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?

There were a huge mix of dinosaurs in this book, both herbivores and the ones who would gladly eat humans.I’m really not a big dinosaur fan (except Land Before Time haha) but this book sounds really cool so I might keep an eye out for it! Both are well developed characters and they enter the trials for different reasons, but manage to get along perfectly well. The human continent is hugely overcrowded leaving the people struggling for food, water, energy, accommodation, everything.

Afghanistan, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Asia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Middle East, Moldova, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South America, South East Asia, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, Virgin Islands (U.Books that you may also like; The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner, Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness. Here, though, even though it’s entire continents we’re talking about, the sense of grandness of scale is evidently lacking. The Extinction Trials is a story about a fictional earth where humans and dinosaurs exist together at the same time. One piece of constructive criticism that I can give the book is that it could have a bit more explanation at the start of the book as I didn't really understand about The Loch at this point. 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.

But it didn't bother me, because I was so scooped up into this adventure, too excited and extremely curious to explore more of this dinosaur content, to be really bothered by it. However, upon reading the book I was delighted to learn that the book does live up to its description. Each new event carrying you to the next until the end of an interesting tale of life, death, morality, ethics and awareness of who we are…. Yet another of my favourite characters died in this book, which is disappointing but also expected considering the vein this story was taking.Leif named after Leif Eriksson, the first person to discover Vinland/America; Rune from the old Nordic runes that made up the alphabet; and Kronar is a variation on the currencies of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. I have to be honest, I was hesitant about reading this book because it just didn’t seem like my kinda thing. How old is this world that when we get to the current situation of diminishing space, food and power, people still have virtually no idea or knowledge about dinosaurs? The entire world is grey except for the continent of PILORIA where grows trees and all kind of vegetations but it is also inhabited by the most dangerous dino-species: T-REX and raptors. 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.