Twilight Sparkle Storm joins the Trials originally because she want more food but then decides that going to Piloria will be "fun" and that she wants to save the dinos. And that my friends, at 80%, is where I pulled the plug but I read in other reviews that there is some simple and stupid AF conclusion. Lincoln also has a secret mission - to bring back the ingredients for the cure for the disease which is killing the population, as well as his sister. I related to Storm wanting her own space and hating being in a crowded place, as resources on their home, including space, are scarce. I liked her character, though she did keep saying she wasn’t sure why she was going to Piloria, she didn’t have a reason like everyone else did, and it kind of made the whole, sacrificing her life for no reason thing a bit silly.

Overall, I think this book was absolutely amazing, its impossible to put down and I highly recommend you read it. For the raptors, the most brilliant and badass dinos, they light a fire to distract them and then Pinkie Pie Storm runs and grabs the egg. However, upon reading the book I was delighted to learn that the book does live up to its description. Maybe if I was 12 and hadn't grown up watching Jurassic Park every day after preschool (90s kids amiright? I love the concept; living in a world that’s so deprived and overpopulated that the human race want to wipe out the dinosaur continent of Piloria in able to survive.I have to be honest, I was hesitant about reading this book because it just didn’t seem like my kinda thing. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Next they try to steal the flying dinosaurs eggs, which is unsuccessfully, so they move onto the T Rex, have a run in with the baddie, hide in a cave from the T Rex and what do they hear while in this cave?

I can also see its appeal to the young adult market, but I can see its greater appeal to those reluctant readers out there (you know who you are! I really enjoyed the ambiguity, as there isn’t necessarily a clear answer- they should leave Piloria alone, it’s the dinosaurs’ continent, but it’s not as though everyone will suddenly agree with Storm over night.

Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true passion: writing fiction. Dinosaurs supposedly, live on a separate continent to the humans, however as resources become ever more scarce and living conditions worsen, there are many attempts to eradicate the dinosaurs and expand, but they have always been disastrous.

Some - like Storm - for the food the entrants get, others - like Lincoln - for the promised rewards those who actually make it through the trials will get. I was pulling my hair out getting through the first half of this novel (don’t worry, it got SOMUCHBETTER, which I will talk about after I discuss the first half of the novel🙂) It is what made me put it off for a year, and then another. I also found it interesting that the book is told from both their perspectives but seems to be more of a story about Storm. S.M Wilson has managed to create an incredible world, where dinosaurs have somehow survived and the earth is highly over-populated.

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Personally I found this book amazing because it tells us what is happening and it shows what happens and it builds lots of suspense. A world where humans live crammed onto one continent whilst dinosaurs (that’s right, real, actual dinosaurs) live on the other. Only for the past nine years, since the start of the “Trials” (which I will get to in sweet time) have they begun to get some sort of information about how the dinosaurs live? It has crooked politics - as you come to expect with a world building/setting like this one, lots of secrets, adventure, DINOSAURS!Set after the events in The Extinction Trials, we see Storm and Lincoln adjust to life after the trials in Piloria. I really, really loved this book, the characters, the concept, the world building, everything about it was fascinating and exciting. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.