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vidhi26p's review
5.0
I thought this was the most emotional book so far. It was tad bit confusing since I haven't read the previous book in a while.
jscarpa14's review
3.0
While I did like the story provide and found it interesting that the book included not one but two parts to a break there were just too many questions in this one for me to rate it as high as the previous one.
I have the same gap issues with the series as always but no really need to go into those since I've vented a few times on that before. My issues with this one were more about things within the story itself. First of all when the book opens the time appears to be wrong, but there's a partial break to fix anyway. With how detailed the calculations are supposed to be in order to make the ring work, how could she have arrived in the wrong time? This really isn't ever explained in the story. Continuing on with ring related questions. In book two a villain broke his tooth trying to bite the ring, possibly to break it, can't quite remember the exact details. No damage was done to the ring but the man's tooth could have used a dentist afterward. In book three, Sera chased the ring into the ocean, and it still works, but somehow in book four, Dak knocks it out of someone's hand and it hits the ground and it needs repairs and reprogramming? Additionally can someone answer the question of what tools from the Ancient Mayan civilization would have been suitable to repair a futuristic time travel device?
In books one through three the trio were careful about who they admitted where they were from to. Especially after they'd become confused and ended up trapped in the third book they'd made a point of deciding to be careful about it, so why exactly were all three of them supposedly so casual about deciding someone was a historian without proof in this book?
This leads me to the square, it's established during the first part of the book that the Historian movement was kind of a European thing which moved to the Americas with the European immigration here. If that's the case why would there be a clue about the first Mayan visit in the square? How would they know something had gone wrong there if no historian was actually there to actually know what happened? If all the clues were uploaded to the square in the future before any portion of the breaks were repaired, how would the second Mayan clue refer to something Riq said to Kisa during the first visit? I mean unless he'd already been there to have the conversation about friendship her creating a new branch of historians and giving them that friendship motto wouldn't even exist.
I get that time travel is going to have a lot of loops, but too many of these questions don't have answers that fit within the pre established rules for time travel (in this story) provided in the previous books. Now if you can ignore all that, it's a good story, there's a lot of truly emotional scenes, intriguing characters and an interesting story, but all the questions and things that didn't quite make sense were driving me insane through most of the story which detracted a lot from the book for me.
Overall it's a good addition to the series, but not really a great one because of how much it varies from other titles within the series.
I have the same gap issues with the series as always but no really need to go into those since I've vented a few times on that before. My issues with this one were more about things within the story itself. First of all when the book opens the time appears to be wrong, but there's a partial break to fix anyway. With how detailed the calculations are supposed to be in order to make the ring work, how could she have arrived in the wrong time? This really isn't ever explained in the story. Continuing on with ring related questions. In book two a villain broke his tooth trying to bite the ring, possibly to break it, can't quite remember the exact details. No damage was done to the ring but the man's tooth could have used a dentist afterward. In book three, Sera chased the ring into the ocean, and it still works, but somehow in book four, Dak knocks it out of someone's hand and it hits the ground and it needs repairs and reprogramming? Additionally can someone answer the question of what tools from the Ancient Mayan civilization would have been suitable to repair a futuristic time travel device?
In books one through three the trio were careful about who they admitted where they were from to. Especially after they'd become confused and ended up trapped in the third book they'd made a point of deciding to be careful about it, so why exactly were all three of them supposedly so casual about deciding someone was a historian without proof in this book?
This leads me to the square, it's established during the first part of the book that the Historian movement was kind of a European thing which moved to the Americas with the European immigration here. If that's the case why would there be a clue about the first Mayan visit in the square? How would they know something had gone wrong there if no historian was actually there to actually know what happened? If all the clues were uploaded to the square in the future before any portion of the breaks were repaired, how would the second Mayan clue refer to something Riq said to Kisa during the first visit? I mean unless he'd already been there to have the conversation about friendship her creating a new branch of historians and giving them that friendship motto wouldn't even exist.
I get that time travel is going to have a lot of loops, but too many of these questions don't have answers that fit within the pre established rules for time travel (in this story) provided in the previous books. Now if you can ignore all that, it's a good story, there's a lot of truly emotional scenes, intriguing characters and an interesting story, but all the questions and things that didn't quite make sense were driving me insane through most of the story which detracted a lot from the book for me.
Overall it's a good addition to the series, but not really a great one because of how much it varies from other titles within the series.
e_rb's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
froydis's review
4.0
This is one of the better ones in the series, I think! Very dramatic. The kids really need to time warp to a Caribbean island for a few days and just recover on the beach or something. This one was pretty emotional! On to the next!
readingthestars's review
4.0
It was cool to read about the Maya civilization! I wasn't a huge fan of how Sera looked down upon their science/medicine, but I can understand where she was coming from.
archvine18's review
4.0
The plot got a bit better than the others and I totes dig the secret room within the secret room. I love it. Haha.
hhertzof's review
4.0
There are still gaps in the worldbuilding but I really want to know how the series ends.
yapha's review
4.0
Another great adventure in the Infinity Ring series! (And yes, you absolutely must read these in orders!) Riq, Dak, & Sera are in Central America, but something must be wrong with the Infinity Ring, because it is almost a thousand years earlier than they had expected. The SQuare gives them a clue, and they realize that there is something for them to fix here as well. As they learn about the people around them, they realize that the SQ has distorted the history of the Ancient Mayan civilization. Can they save the Mayans and themselves before it is too late?