Weet's Quest

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Life has not been good for Weet, a humanoid dinosaur, since he lost his
human friends, Eric and Rose, in a tyrannosaurus rex attack. For one
thing, the climate is changing, making life harder for his family.
Secondly, Weet is too troubled to take a mate and settle down like all
his peers in his tribe. Something is telling him to search for the land
of his ancestors, a legendary place of plenty that became uninhabitable
after it was invaded by hordes of fierce flesh-eating monsters. Weet
sets off on his quest alone. But he is soon reunited with Eric and Rose.
Together they face many dangers as they search for the land of Weet’s
ancestors.

This book is a sequel to Weet, John Wilson’s first book about two
young humans who travel back in time to have adventures with a humanlike
dinosaur. In Weet’s Quest, Wilson, a professional geologist, creates a
world that is at once strange and yet familiar because it is Earth in
the late-Cretaceous period. Unfortunately, in this book Wilson is often
a better scientist than writer. The prose seems more intent on advancing
a scientific theory than moving the story, and the plot’s promising
themes are swallowed by a climax that is lamely derivative of H.G.
Wells’s War of the Worlds. Not a first-choice purchase.