Chronal Engine

I found this to be a pretty excellent survival story. Add in some dinosaurs and some time travel, and there you go. The pace was pretty quick, the science not over-explained and I added this to my list for older developing (formally “reluctant”) readers. My only gripe is that the illustrations are in ill-timed positions, often ruining the surprise before the reader can even get to the set up. By the end, that totally frustrated me. Another problem with the illustrations is of WHAT they depicted. In a story about dinosaurs I have never heard of before, and a setting that is also new, why are we given pictures of two boys sitting on a rock (115) or a fight scene in which the dino is obscured by the human characters (122)? Just saying.