I liked this book but would have loved more romance. The pacing was great and I really loved that it was something new to me to read!

Thank you NetGalley

A fun, fast-paced read, more adventure than romance, but with a satisfying amount of both nonetheless. The characters felt sympathetic and the plot was fast-paced. Nice and entertaining!

I'm a sucket to everything featuring dinosaurs and this time got more than I bargained as this is a well plotted, entertaining, and gripping story.
The author is a good storyteller and the story is exciting and kept me turning pages.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

Thank you netgalley for allowing me to read this book. I was so excited to start this book and It was so good! It’s very different from any book I’ve ever read and I love that about it! It started off slow at first but I got more intrigued as the book went on. I definitely would have liked a lot more romance but I enjoyed the adventure and mystery. I really liked the two different point of views you get. The plot twists were great and made me feel so many different emotions.

Disclaimer: Many thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this. It was a fun read and I’m thankful I got to read the copy I got.

What a ride this book was! It was a breeze to read and held your attention well. I couldn’t pry my eyes off of my phone screen as I read through my copy. The pacing was done so well that I barely felt time pass. It felt like I time travelled along with the characters into the prehistoric era and experienced it all with them.

Loved the sapphic romance that happened with Julia and Xia. While Julia’s character is questionable and shifty, she has more dimensions to her that I was grateful for. The plot twist that happens mid book when Grace and Julia meet tho - I felt like I should have seen it happening a mile away, but it still surprised me the way it did. I’m glad the author was sneaky at how they built up the reveal.

Also I was surprised there wasn’t more of a paradoxical effect when we come across someone from the future who meets their past self. Yet as a Doctor Who fan, I guess time is just a big ball that’s all wibbly wobbly. Time travel is so fascinating and this take on time travel raised a lot of questions for me.

Another thing I loved about this book is how it’s sprinkled with small references to Jurassic Park and literally has the book appear in one scene as well. Calling the pachy “the friar tuck of dinosaurs” is another fun call back as well. I also liked the tree climbing scene. Anything that gives an homage to the JP books made me smile and love this book more.

While I love dinosaurs, I wish the romance was a little more scaled back in this book. There was a dinosaur chase of course, but there isn’t as much horror as I felt like there could have been. Yet, I also don’t think it’s needed. This has its own charm and appeals just as much.

Overall I give it four and a half stars. The half being that I wanted a little bit more of the fear and dread these dinosaurs can give. That’s all. It’s a solid book and is a fun read for those who love dinosaurs and romance as well. Definitely would recommend this and reread this again.

Enjoyed this book all the way through. Very good sci-fi adventure in time travel, sort of like Thursday Next meets Jurassic Park. If you like imagining dinosaurs and what it would be like in their world, Ms. Walker has done a fine job of building on that imagination. Starts with an opening that drew me in from the first pages. Maintained a high, almost unbearable level of tension, so much so that it was difficult to identify a climax. Great characterizations with several surprise linkages that come into play later in the book. Good underlying plot line with a murder mystery well told and well hidden; most of the characters could have been the murderer until the reveal. (But of course, how do you have a "murder" in the time of dinosaurs, when people are getting eaten right and left? Read the book; it fits.) Some of the choices made by characters left me puzzled or unbelieving, particularly in relation to their lack of respect for the dinosaurs, but not so much as to jar me out of the imagining.. Specious inclusion of alternate gender issues that did not add to the story. Descriptions are vivid and put me there, in that world. I could well imagine a movie maker wanting this one. Ending is completely believable and well written. All in all, well worth my time; a very nice piece of work.

Disclaimers first: I got a review copy from Netgalley, and then another (more up-to-date) review copy directly from the author, who is on the same writers' forum as me.

This is a solid SF thriller in the manner of Michael Crichton (who gets name-checked at one point), combining time travel and dinosaurs, two of his best-known premises. It starts out an unspecified period into the future, but quickly moves to 70 million years ago, where one of the viewpoint characters is studying dinosaurs and the other is poaching them. The two stories converge after a while, and it turns out that the two women have a pre-existing relationship, which adds to the already high tension.

It's a pacey story, with a high body count among the secondary characters, but it doesn't skimp on relevant characterization, relationship development, or setting details (while avoiding infodumps and long scenes about the characters' inner struggles). There were a few moments when I felt a bit of a strain on the suspension of disbelief, but not too badly so.

Time travel is hard to write well, in part because it's easy to get snarled up in crisscrossing alternate timelines that make less and less sense the more they play out, and the author has cleverly avoided this by setting a "the timeline doesn't change" rule. Which is then broken late in the book, but in a way that adds rather than detracting.

Overall, this is a soundly written book that will satisfy readers who like a bit of SF content in their thriller or vice-versa. Personally, I'm more of a cosy fantasy fan, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and it enters my Best of the Year list with no difficulty.

This was such a great story. I was hooked from the very beginning. This was my first time reading Elizabeth Walker's work and it will not be the last.

I quite enjoyed Time Traitors. There was time travel, time travel Agents, dinosaurs, action, and a couple of kisses. I expected there to be a bit more romance from the description. We follow Dr. Grace Carson, a scientist, who is returning to the prehistoric era for the first time in years after turning in her husband for poaching dinosaurs. Going back to her work studying dinosaurs in their natural habitat is all she wants. However, like the last time when she gets back it starts to look like the poachers might be back as well. Parts of her team want her to turn the other way but again she can't do that.

I was surprised to get into the story and have it told from the point of view of both Grace Carson and Julia (poachers). Having the two narratives did add to the story. It was interesting to see the poachers version of events and get more of the backstory as well.

I would not have qualified this as a romance as it felt more like a time travel story to me that included a romance plot line. I did like that it took what scientists know about dinosaurs and use that in the book. For what appears to be a debut novel I thought this was well done. I'll be looking for other books in the series.