Anyway, the TimeRiders tag needs to be populated because it’s such a great book series with little of the attention it deserves.
TimeRiders, by Alex Scarrow, is a YA time-travel series about a trio of teenagers who are enlisted, just moments from death, to function as an underground adhoc agency of time police (essentially).
Maddy Carter - from the year 2010 - is an eighteen-year old techie. She’s in charge of the logistics, as well as being the leader of these out-of-time teenagers. Liam O’Connor was swept from the belly of the Titanic in 1912, just moments before the ship snapped and submerged. He is the sixteen-year-old field operative, whose job it is to go back in time to fix anomalies. He is often accompanied by the part-computer, part-man leviathan, Bob. And Sal Vikram - from 2026 - is a thirteen-year-old girl from Mumbai, enlisted to be the team’s observer. Sal is responsible for watching out for any major or minor shifts in reality - anything that may signal a change in history. These three live together and operate from an archway field-office in New York, 2001. From there, they work to ensure time goes as it should. This means fighting with post-nuclear cannibals, Romans, surprisingly intelligent lizards, Genomes, Men with Guns, and... Abraham Lincoln?
(Personally, Abe Lincoln is my favourite side character).
And, of course, who doesn’t love a little ‘things are not what they seem’ conspiracy?
Read TimeRiders, everyone.
