Doctor Who, in Novel Form.

A review of James Dashner's book
Infinity Ring: a Mutiny in Time

Infinity Ring is a series I find enjoyable. It's witty characters, fascinating locations, and interconnecting storyline grab your attention. You will find it hard to put down, if you like it. And I have just addressed the main problem with reviews that like the book, they assume others will too. That is mostly true. A lot of people like Infinity Ring, but not everyone. Is this story by James Dashner as good as the Scorch Trials? Like Amaterasu, let's leap before we think!

A Mutiny in Time starts with two 5th grade students name Dak Smyth and Sera Froste. They live in a post-apocalyptic earth run by a strange organization, known as the SQ. There are a lot of natural disasters happening at alarming rates and the SQ are doing nothing about it. One day, Sera visited Dak's house while his parents are away. They enter the Smyth's lab and discover an unusual device. A handheld Time Travel device known as the Infinity Ring. They use it when Dak's parents returned and some bad things happened, causing his parents to get separated from them. Soon after, Dak and Sera are recruited by another organization called the Hystorians. Founded by Aristotle in 336 B.C., he believed that time travel would one day become possible. Throughout time, paradoxes, a.k.a. Breaks, have appeared. Dak, Sera, and fellow Hystorian Riq must go back to the past and fix the Breaks.  In this book, the Break deals with a mutiny that overthrows Christopher Columbus.  And when I say "overthrow" I mean that, literally. The mutineers threw him overboard.  Ergo, the Break in time since Christopher never discovered America.  This Break must be fixed by Dak, Sera and Riq.  It is exciting reading.

As the title of this review tells you, I am reminded of the 50 year long sci-fi series, Doctor Who. Let's think here. The main characters use a device for Time Travel, in Doctor Who, it's the TARDIS( Time And Relative Dimension In Space), and in Infinity Ring, it's the Infinity Ring. They travel in time and space, change history, save the world, and have giant evil organizations after them. And as such, I dub thee book, DOCTOR WHO: The Novel!

Then there is the author. James Dashner has written fantastic works before. I'm pretty sure that all of you have heard of the Scorch Trials. Yeah he wrote that. And the Maze Runner. While I have never read either of these book, if they are as good as Infinity Ring I might pick them up.

In conclusion, this book is a very good start to the Infinity Ring series.  Fans of 39 Clues and Doctor Who will like it also because of the mysteries and time traveling. Great story, fantastic characters and an outstanding author make a good book.  I guess I give it 4.5 stars and the Hystorian seal of approval.