This is my first choose your own adventure book ever so to say that I enjoyed it would be an understatement.

I’m rating it 3.5 stars because I loved the concept of the book and I was hooked onto it for quite some time. Time Travel dinosaur is as absurd as the title sounds. It has a sci-fi angle to it with the protagonist, who happens to be you given the genre, leaps through time and enters several timezones and eras.

It is however not a kids books. It is a nostalgic experience bringing back the fun involved in ‘choose your own adventure’ books but written for a more mature reader base.

I have to applaud the writer and everyone involved in bringing this book to us because having 76 endings, sometimes getting us stuck in a loop and having interlinked chapters is not easy and they pulled it off seamlessly.

The only catch for me is that this book has 76 alternate endings and most if not all are of eternal doom. While I was entertained for about 3-4 hours, it got repetitive and irritating towards the end. Sure, this reflects in how I would never survive an apocalypse due to my poor choices but having a few good alternate endings wouldn’t hurt. ( )

Another interesting choose your adventure story, somewhat marred by being broken. As in, at some point I'm told to turn to page 9. There is in fact a page nine, but I have to hunt all over the ebook to find it since the hyperlink that would have taken me to it is not included on the page that says to turn to page 9.

So. Alternate evolution (dinosaurs evolving to humoid like creatures), steampunk, mad scientists, insane goblins, biped dolphin women, time travel, references to Scott Bakula, all included.

I do not recall if gender is expressed in the "you", though "you" appear vaguely surprised to be about to give birth, so maybe "you" were male at some point. Your mind kind of drifts in the story, so you've probably been in every gender and in everything. Heck, the book starts with you inside a female dog (that's part of the "Bakula" reference, time travel through traveling into people's/things heads).

This is the third in this specific series, and the quality of the writing seems to reflect that, though I haven't read the first one yet. They are related in being choose your own adventure books, but not by any other means. Well, other than being by the same author. So . . . somewhat higher quality writing, mostly referring here to the choices given are less annoying than they were in the Superhero book.

hmms. Not sure what else to note here. Good enough read. Nothing erotic or romantic occurs. There's violence, blood, and death. I suppose all I'm left with is that I would recommend it. ( )