Reviews

In the Time of Dinosaurs by K.A. Applegate

fae's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

endaira91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

0.5 stars for the unexpected way the kids </committed alien genocide (giving the aliens a busted weapon? That’s DARK>. The rest of the story was slow, and frustrating in the sense that not only did it take them forever to realize they were in the time of dinosaurs, but they somehow didn’t know about the comet??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Minor: Cannibalism

justjaqueline's review against another edition

adventurous informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

lex_y's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Genocide and Gore

temporaryhouseplant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

justgj's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

odinblindeye's review against another edition

2.0

Animorphs was a good series that kept me reading. Enjoyed these as a kid.

thistlechaser's review against another edition

1.0

Disclaimer: I'm reading this series for the first time as an adult. (Unfortunately) I have no fond memories coloring my reading.

This was the second book in the Animorphs series that I didn't finish. These "extra" books never seem to work for me. The Megamorphs ones (so named because they're twice as long as the other books) are 100% action, no plot-impact. I'm not reading this series for the fight scenes.

In this book, through a plot device riff in space/time, the Animorphs go back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. I have no idea why, but it takes them a really long time to realize when they are. They've dealt with time travel in previous books, and they know what dinosaurs are... When they see evidence of dinosaurs (footprints the size of swimming pools, tops of trees eaten, dinosaur-sized paths through the forest) it takes them forever to put the pieces together.

These books almost always have big honking plot holes, but the ones in this book were bigger than usual. (Dinosaur-sized!)

Based on the other reviews of this book, it gets even worse in the second half (TWO new alien races that we never encounter again, one of them apparently shaping the whole human race in a most illogical way), so I jumped ship at the 50% mark.

grapie_deltaco's review against another edition

3.0

Immediately after coming from an adventure leaving the Animorphs suspended in Zero-space, the team finds their way going back in time to the land of the dinosaurs and acquiring new morphs that may help them in future battles to win the war.

This honestly feels like a filler episode to also conveniently give Cassie a T-Rex morph for future fights but I don’t care. It was fun (with the exception of that one guy whose body was made up of ants. That was horrifying.)

I do really appreciate these multi-POV stories, though, and we get better inside (on top of everything that occurred in the story prior) about why Jake is the only one built for the position as group leader.


CW: violence, death, grief

wanderlustlover's review against another edition

3.0

Spring 2020 (Animorphs Read 2020 / April);

I'm really not a huge fan of most of the 'morps books so far. It was totally interesting to see a story where there was no main villain, the Yeerks didn't really even matter to it, and we had dinosaurs roaming the Earth everywhere because these are back in time hijinks. But the multiple pov books seem to make everyone's pov slimmer and faster. Plus, we separated Rachel from the group instantly, which was way too much like the first 'morphs book.

I super appreciated Tobais' getting to shine everywhere in this book.