Time Riders - The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow

The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I'll like to be straightforward. I realized it in this book that Alex Scarrow was trying to warn us what could happen to us after fifty years if we didnt take care of our environment right now. In this book, Abraham Lincoln comes into the future. The plot is always the same, but the way there is a bigger secret to these series, which is revealed in The City of Shadows (I've not read it yet), makes it all the more interesting. Alex Scarrow realizes that if he continues with one or the adventure in every book, without a deeper secret, this book will go down and it will not be popular and will be read by nine year old kids when he wants older people to read it. After all its a YA novel. This keeps me going. I thought of leaving the book, but this secret stopped me. The way he puts the text, which will come where, attracts the attention also. That's the best part. He starts with different stuff. If he would start with the same thing, it would get so boring, no one would like to read it. He has brains, just like his brother, Simon Scarrow. People read it, enjoy it and tell me how you liked it!


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Mangalore Air Crash Similarity

It was a Sunday and I was sitting in my room with a friend of mine. Suddenly we saw clouds of smoke emerging from the airport near my house. Mona and me looked at each other and, without any words, ran out of the house, took our scooters and rushed to the airport.
The first hurdle came our way. The policemen were not letting us in as much as we begged. We went on our knees and begged him, but he still didnt budge. We went on the point to bribe him when he gave up, sighed and let us in. We ran inside, screaming our thank you's. The airport seemed not at all to be touched by the happenings of the plane. We went straight to the staircase and to the security check in, which was our next hurdle.
We went inside the cubicle together and begged the policewoman there to let us through, but even she was stubborn. And much more stubborn than the policeman outside. We begged and begged, but we didnt get any results. I saw only one way through this. I got up and asked the policewoman, "Do you know who we are?" She shook her head. I took Mona's hand. "Will you be able to recognize us again?" At this she went in deep thought and I found my chance. I pulled Mona's hand and screamed, "Run!" And both of us started running towards our third hurdle, which was the gates. We darent look back as we were scared on what we would encounter.
We came to the gates and rushed right through and ran to the plane. We went there and saw the condition. I hesitated before going in, but Mona ran in without a second thought and I saw her getting an injured man outside. I rushed in and covered my eyes. There was smoke all around and the fire was making it difficult to see. I spotted a child struggling with his seat belt. His parents were dead and I opened his seat belt, took him in my arms and rushed out. I handed him over to the ambulance and, out of the corner of my eye, saw Mona rushing in.
There was a blast as another fuel tank burst. I turned around instantly and only one word slipped out of my mouth which was... "Mona..." I rushed in and got up sweating.
I was sweating badly and I tried to catch my breath from the dream-no nightmare-I just had. I looked up and saw my curtain on fire from the candle I had forgotten to blow out last night. I took a pillow, covered my face, fell on the bed and screamed "Aw man!" I lazily got up, got a bucket of water and put out the fire.