Journey to the Dawn of Time
John Long

Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2003
157pp., pbk., $15.95
1863683712

Journey to the Dawn of Time is the second book about people who travel through time using a magical cave in Tasmania near a place called Devil’s Roost.

In this book the characters have to go into the past as well as the future in order to recover three crystals to save the world.

It’s an interesting book and I enjoyed it, though I didn’t find the ending very satisfying because there’s obviously another book and this one ends just before they actually save the world. I guess this is to make you desperate for the next book in the series to read.

The characters are credible and I felt like an eavesdropper on their conversations. The story is not really believable, but I guess any story about time travel would be slightly unbelievable. The action in the story is pretty good though, and it kept me reading.
I would recommend this book to kids aged 9 to 14 and would give it 3 out 5 stars.

Juan 13 Tasmania