A lot of the book explores the ambiguity in their aims and intentions, and also in Storm’s own decisions and actions. M. Wilson has been able to achieve with her first young adult title is nothing short of brilliant, the book is engaging, fast paced, deals with many issues of culture and class divides and of how we look after the world; all issues that could be compared to a society we live in today, all wrapped up with a wonderful dystopian vibe.

Overall I think the story was a little rushed, the potential was definitely there but I found myself wondering about some stuff that felt simply out of place or questioning the trail of thought quite often. Finalists traveling to this other continent that's been inhabited by dinosaurs, with a lot of them being very dangerous of course.

Throughout, morality is pitted against personal preservation, and fans of fast-paced, quest-driven fiction will surely be left desperate for the second installment of this strident series.

Basic Plot: Resources are scarce, a vast understatement, on the continent of Earthasia, where the entire human race, or what is left of it, lives. The only thing I found a little annoying at times was the way little bits of information seemed to be repeated once or twice in various places over the course of the book, which didn't seem necessary. You need the space, you need the food, you need new resources, medicine and a shitload of things your continent has run out of. That was one of the main features of the book that made me feel like I was really in a different world and time with these people, living in a deprived world, with dinosaurs only a boat ride away. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.She wrote her first YA series, The Extinction Trials, to try and infect her sons with the same love of reading that she has, and her second, The Infinity Files, to channel her love of all things sci-fi. A world where humans live crammed onto one continent whilst dinosaurs (that’s right, real, actual dinosaurs) live on the other.