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A review by charonlrdraws
Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
2.0
If I'm honest here, I enjoyed the first book the second was alright and the others haven't really made much of an impression to be honest. And yeah Gates of Rome follows the same shit different era and I just lost interest and back in 2014 I met Alex Scarrow he signed my copy of the first book and it was great. I mean yeah he has some great ideas and all but yeah this is my lowest rating for one of his books.
I will attempt book six but I am noticing a repetitive pattern nothing changes, and where's the character development? I missed that it happened in the first three books and it just disappeared, and that's a shame but maybe I'm just sick of time travel storylines. I mean it has been done to death but in this series it follows the same pattern again and again.
A summery for Gates of Rome:
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.
But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...
Project Exodus—a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to AD 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire—has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.
Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past.
Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned—and under threat—how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right?
I will attempt book six but I am noticing a repetitive pattern nothing changes, and where's the character development? I missed that it happened in the first three books and it just disappeared, and that's a shame but maybe I'm just sick of time travel storylines. I mean it has been done to death but in this series it follows the same pattern again and again.
A summery for Gates of Rome:
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.
But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...
Project Exodus—a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to AD 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire—has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.
Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past.
Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned—and under threat—how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right?