This first book in the Primordia trilogy, In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck reads like a Boy’s Own Adventure story as a collection of people, friends since childhood, embark on a hunt for the journal of Benjamin Cartwright, explorer and great-grandfather of Ben Cartwright, one of the group. This journal supposedly details the location of a lost world, high on a South American plateau, where dinosaurs still roam. Benjamin Cartwright Senior was a friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and passed the journal along to him. Doyle, who also supposedly based his book “The Lost World” on this journal, kept the journal and hid it in a secure place before he died.

The five friends decide to head to England to track down the journal and then they plan to head to South America and locate the lost world. Of course, it turns out they are not the only ones searching for this legendary place, wealthy collector, Edward Barlow, is also on the trail of the journal, wanting to be the first to reach the lost world and to hunt dinosaurs. As Doyle once famously wrote, “The Game is Afoot!”

Yes, this is a very predictable plot with stock characters but it is filled with action, adventure and ... dinosaurs! I enjoyed this book for what it was, a simple escape read that kept me entertained. Certainly not for everyone but if you are a fan of Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park, you might enjoy this trilogy. ( )

Primordia is a great story about a group of young adventurers that decided to follow up on a map ( found with quite a story in itself) and see if they could find where there might be living dinosaur type creatures living in the jungles. It had to be just in a certain time span when a comet came by every 10 years, in a certain place in the world, and for a certain period of time. This book is finding the map and the adventures there! ( )