Extant (the Extant series Book 1)

I loved Extant and I’m giving it five stars without hesitation. I loved it so much that I devoured it in one sitting. I mean, come on. A time traveler headed back to the Cretaceous, just days before the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs? That is such a cool premise on its own, let alone expanding on it like Croxall does in this novella. Let me say it again; time travel and dinosaurs. So cool!There are welcome tidbits of environmentalist themes mixed in amongst the descriptions of p

The first third of Extant is just transmissions of Dr. Ina Adama doing research and it was a little hard for me to get through. It's difficult to write a compelling narrative with only one person involved. It can be done; The Martian works because Mark Watney is bursting with personality. Adama has a personality, but she isn't bursting with it.However, the details about dinosaurs were really cool, and I enjoyed the intermittent riddles, so there was plenty to keep me reading.When Callum Everett

2.75 stars, rounded up to 3 for Goodreads.This was a well written novella, but....kind of boring? Unfortunately. Things...sort of looked up once we were introduced to the secondary character, but the 'cliffhanger' wasn't a surprise for me. It's a quick popcorn read, just....slow? I might continue the series, who knows.