In order to fix the world, the team has to go back and stop the time traveler before he gets to Hitler. This action has altered the world from the one we know, producing a post-apocolyptic wasteland. Another time traveler from the distant future has gone back in time and teamed up with Hitler to win WW II. It was fun reading how the other team members tried to teach him to talk more like a regular dude. I think the author got Bob’s newly come to life voice just right. He appears basically human but has super human strength. There is an additional critical member of the team, Bob. Given the length 0f the book, though, I think the characters’ personalities could have been better developed. They each have unique perspectives based on the era from which they’ve come. I loved how Scarrow had Foster, a seasoned time traveler from the distant future when time travel is possible, gather together a young person from the past, one from the relative present, and a one from the future to form a team. To stop time travel from destroying the world… That’s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose-to fix broken history. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘Take my hand …’īut Liam, Maddy and Sal aren’t rescued. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. It might even create a New York City populated by ghoulish mutated humans that survive by eating their own kind. As a pebble tossed in a river makes ripples of ever-widening circles, so changing an event in the past via time travel has far-reaching implications, according to Time Riders, by Alex Scarrow, (2010, 405 pages).

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