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A Mutiny In Time (2012)

by James Dashner(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0545386969 (ISBN13: 9780545386968)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Scholastic Inc.

series

Infinity Ring

review 1: Two best friends, Dak Smyth and Sera Froste go on an adventure in the book Infinity Ring a Mutiny in Time and have a wild journey.They both find a ring which is a time travel device.They go back in time and have to fix history.The general theme of this book is to change something if you believe it needs changing.In the book Dak and Sera go back in time to change history because of how it is in present time and to make it a better place.This book connects to me because I really like history which is what got me to read this book.It connects to the world because of the time travel device which the world does not have and now it shows it.This also connects to the world in a way because there trying to change it so it wont be corupted.This author had a few different writing st... moreyle.Sometime it would be on third,second,and first person.When it was in first person it was when something is happening or some action.In second person is when Sera or Dak might be saying something to eachother.In third person its when the author is telling their thoughts.I really enjoyed this book and I recomend it for a fun interesting book to read.
review 2: Review:Protagonists: Dak and Sera are the best of friends and geniuses in their own unique way. Dak is a history buff, with the ability to tell you where and when important events occurred around the world, while Sera is a scientist at heart and an instrumental part in the fine tuning of the Infinity Ring. Together they get enlisted into a secret organizations intent on fixing the various rifts in history, joined by Riq; a young Hystorian, a polyglot, and the oldest of the three they set out through time to fix the various breaks in history. Now I wasn't all too impressed with these character seeing as they all know way more than I do and at half my age no less. It's a bit unrealistic, but then I had to realize that this is a Middle-Grade story which are always about fantastic characters who usually know more than the adults and get to go on these crazy adventures and save the world. So by the end of the book I got off my high horse and actually enjoyed the characters and how they grow, ever so slightly, over the course of this story.World-Building: Set in a dystopian version of our present day, where significant events have been changed and all hell has broken loose under the tyrannical control of the SQ. While some decide that life under SQ rule is a necessary evil, there are those, like Dak's parents who decide to do something about it. Dak's parents have invented the Infinity Ring, later perfected by Dak's friend Sera, a device that allows the user to travel through time. This very dangerous-in-the-wrong-hands device can be used to set right the world's Big Breaks, events in time that didn't go how they should have. This first book find our heroes saving Christopher Columbus from a mutiny aboard one of his ships sailing for "the West Indies" or in reality what will eventually come to be know as the New World. Now I'm not going to go into the whole "Christopher Columbus was a terrible human being that would have deserved a mutiny" thing because that would take too long, but I will say that it is touched upon, though not entirely as much as I would have liked, but enough that I didn't want to start ranting at the book.Predictability: Honestly since this book was so short and was intended for a much younger audience, I'm just not sure if there wasn't enough foreshadowing or if there really wasn't anything someone as old as me could predict, but the story felt very straight and narrow. The story moves along much like I had expected it would and doesn't really take any sort of twist or turn, except for a few rare moments when I was genuinely surprised, but that surprise was more how things unfolded and less about if they would unfold.Ending: The ending came very quickly and was very fast paced. A lot of things happen in only a span of a few pages, but as far as Middle-Grade action goes, this was pretty darn good. Not too violent, but still has the feel of let's say a Pirates of the Caribbean movie in terms of action. As for the very end it ends in a bit of a cliffhanger though even if the next book wasn't out the end is still resolved, or I guess continued in the online game.Corresponding Game: With this being a multi-platform title, not only does it mean that each book is written by a different author, but that the story continues in online adventures that correspond with the end of the books. In this case the game finds our heroes on another journey to fix one of history's Great Breaks. While the game was fun, your basic RPG style format, it didn't really add much of anything to the story other than what happened after the end of the first book and it didn't even do that very well. There was no character or even world development as I'm still in the dark as to the very huge cliffhanger at the end of this first book. I think with a bit more storytelling this game could have been a real asset to the story of this world.Rating:With this being my first multi-platform series I was actually pretty impressed. Obviously I'm going to have to give it a few more books to see if the series can stand with so many authors underneath, but aside from a few too many Middle-Grade tropes I found that I really liked the story and am excited to continue. I'd recommend this series for children 10 and under. less

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