Good book that took me a few chapters to get into. It was slow to start but well written. I liked the book as a whole.

unfortunately I will not be finishing this book, the premise was amazing and really intrigued me; but immediately after beginning the book I was put off by the odd vernacular of the text and the actions of the main characters.
the verbiage of the speech of characters felt odd and stilted, and I just didn't mesh with the style at all.
the illustrations were amazing to look at and I really wanted to like this book but just not for me sadly - it felt like a jurassic park parody rather than a novel in its own right :(

The book has an interesting premise but at the end of the day the characters are extremely unlikeable unfortunately. I wish wish wish that there had been something redeeming about them but they all just fell flat for me. Once again, the idea that dinosaurs had an entire civilization? Absolutely amazing. The illustrations in the book? Fantastic. It just felt like it needed more polishing writing wise. When a book takes me more than 50 pages to get hooked in a nearly 400 page book it's just a little too much. I'd still read other things by this author I think and I'd definitely probably enjoy them if they had a little bit more polish.

Roland Ritter does a great job in bringing the paleontologist elements to this thriller novel, I really enjoyed the overall feel of the book and how everything flowed with the concept. It had a unique premise and I was hooked from the first page. The characters were everything that I was hoping for and enjoyed how realistic they were. I enjoyed the adventure elements included and glad I got to read this, it was unique for a dinosaur book.

There's a lot of information here and I was a bit overwhelmed at times. It is unlike anything I have previously read. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

This book is just so hard to follow. I don’t know if it’s because it’s been translated into English. This books skips around so much. I am so confused and it really felt like I was reading a different language.

I unfortunately won't be finishing this book. The writing was difficult to read in that the characters were unlikeable and the "science" in the book just didn't hold up. Not to mention that even the main characters didn't seem engaged. At once point they're eager to arrive and do some work and research and then get distracted by eating and decide work can wait for the next day. It's hard to want to continue a story when even the characters don't seem very pressed to keep up. Interesting premise but the execution just wasn't for me.6

This is a 'what if' novel. When two paleontologists discover dinosaur prints that seem a little too pat to be true, they begin to entertain the possibility that one branch of dinosaurs might have been intelligent.

Great minds do think alike, and a Russian counterpart discovers a skull that also points to a more evolved type of dinosaur. Only his country won't allow him to share this knowledge with the West. The West in turn proves to be equally paranoid about all these exciting new finds.

Fast backwards to a village community defend itself against flying reptiles and so-called sharptooth. Whilst possessing machinies.

Meanwhile, a troubled young man has visions of aliens visiting him in the dead of night. What might the greys have in common with the dinosaurs?

Soon the pieces of the jigsaw come together.

Dinosaur lovers are bound to love this novel, though in many ways the implications of civilisations that existed and destroyed themselves billions of years before us are sober enough. It seems, that once any, animal evolves sapien-like intelligence, wisdom never seems to keep up. There is the ability to create advanced technologies, and alongside it, to create weapons of más destruction - and to use them. Earth meanwhile just resets and restarts, all traces of ancient self-inflicted disasters forgotten.

So much for evolution.

I loved the premise and promise of this book, still do. But the book jumped around a bit too widely for me to appreciate it. Definitely a food for thought book on a potentially different scenario of why the dinosaurs died off

I recieved an free Advanced Reader Copy of 'IDT-Intelligent Dinosaur Theory" from NetGalley. As the title indicates, this book is about IDT in a novel format. The author takes an interesting approach with multiple viewpoints of the information, including going back 65 Million years to the viewpoint of a group of Intelligent dinosaurs.

With the increased interest in UAPs and UFOs, the author includes what I believe may be a unique perspective of a multidimensional view of current intelligent dinosaurs using an ability to project themselves through time and space. At the end of the book is an interesting set of supporting facts and other information on IDT as well as UAPs being multidimensional versus extraterresteral.

Overall, the book is excellent with the combination of archeology, paleontology, geology, psychology, and even religion into the support of the theory. The only issue that I had with the book were some of the descriptions of areas seemed extremely long and I was not sure how they added to the overall impact of the book. As a book 'scanner', I did move over several of these by scanning rather than reading word for word. With that said, I would still give this book at 4.5 star rating and have recommended it to several people.

Sociology & prehistoric creatures meet futuristic human culture. This isn’t a template sci-fi novel. Refreshing and recommended.
It begins with a paleontology dig. I am hooked immediately. Did some dinosaurs have a dynamic society? Interplanetary travel? And was the great K-T meteor strike really a cosmic or cultural event that reset life forms? What a fun reading ride.! This is a provocative novel that addresses speculative historic possibilities.

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley with thanks.

I was attracted to this book as I am a massive dinosaur nerd and thought that the premise itself was an interesting one - intelligent dinosaurs living an organised life and their lifestyle having an echo in the future. This kind of reads like Jurassic Park meets Dinotopia and will probably be enjoyed by dinosaur nerds of all ages. (and by the way, I particularly liked the character, George Michael. Not the singer as the character is quick to point out.)

326 pages

3 stars

Imagine it. Intelligent dinosaurs. Living in an organized village. Mating for life. Raising their offspring.

Imagine that some dinosaurs coexisted with early humans.

What does such speculation do to the theory of human evolution?

Food for thought. An exciting and interesting idea. Certainly.

The writing in this story is a little sketchy. Once the first few pages are read, it does get better. I was disappointed to learn that I really didn’t like any of the characters in the book. (Except for Ruva…) I am certainly open to reading another of Mr. Ritter’s novels.

I want to thank NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for forwarding to me a copy of this interesting book for me to read, enjoy and review. The opinions expressed in this review are solely my own.

I heard the premise of this book and immediately had high expectations that I quickly found out I shouldn't have had. The seven year old in me sees this idea and freaks out but I just ended up very disappointed with a book that was a tad boring and too long.