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i initially gave this book three stars, but when i sat down to write my little book report, i found that i was so bored by the prospect, that it really should lose a star for leaving me so underwhelmed.
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i initially gave this book three stars, but when i sat down to write my little book report, i found that i was so bored by the prospect, that it really should lose a star for leaving me so underwhelmed.
because writing book reports is fun!!!
you can put in pictures:
oooh, urban wasteland!
you can arbitrarily highlight your most emphatic words so people will notice you!
you can make links to things that have nothing whatsoever to do with your review (you ...more
Continuing on this YA kick...
I liked it enough. Not my favorite distopian book though.
Here's the stage: US and China miscommunicate, WAR happens, China fights back with biological weapons and therein lies the 11th plague. Between the war, the plague, and the destruction of US infrastructure, the world "ends" as we know it and the population is decimated. So, zoom in on Stephen and his father, both suffering from grief and victimization, from the death of their physically and mentally abusing (gr ...more
I liked it enough. Not my favorite distopian book though.
Here's the stage: US and China miscommunicate, WAR happens, China fights back with biological weapons and therein lies the 11th plague. Between the war, the plague, and the destruction of US infrastructure, the world "ends" as we know it and the population is decimated. So, zoom in on Stephen and his father, both suffering from grief and victimization, from the death of their physically and mentally abusing (gr ...more
Stephen, his father, and his grandfather have been trekking through an America ravaged by plague, salvaging and trading what they can to survive. Now Stephen's grandfather is dead, and he and his father struggle to survive without grandfather's single-minded views on what is necessary. When Stephen's father attempted to rescue a mother and child from some slavers, he is injured and they are rescued by some people from a nearby settlement. Stephen thinks that once his father awakens from the coma
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What a pleasure to read a post-apocalyptic book that doesn't have the type of life-controlling government that I've read in recent books. This version of the future is more Ship Breaker than Delirious and will be perfect for middle grade boys.
We open in the near future, after the Chinese have used germ warfare to unleash P11 (the eleventh plague) on the United States. Hundreds of thousands have died, political structures have broken down and those physical structures that remain are in complete ...more
We open in the near future, after the Chinese have used germ warfare to unleash P11 (the eleventh plague) on the United States. Hundreds of thousands have died, political structures have broken down and those physical structures that remain are in complete ...more
An interesting premise and more a study of the small lives and community after a devastating series of events has reduced the America as we know it to rubble, but I feel I may be getting weary of dystopian fiction. That will probabably last until next week...
I liked it, but I thought it left a lot of things unexplained. The title seemed odd to me -- the book barely mentions the "plague" that brought about the collapse of society.
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This is a solid survival story. It has the post-apocalyptic vibe without being dystopian or sci-fi. And does anyone do standalones quite as well as Jeff Hirsch?
Oct 29, 2011
Rachael
marked it as to-read
I need a break from this one. I love me some post-apolotical stories, but this one isn't holding my attention.
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Apr 14, 2011
Lisa
marked it as to-read
Jul 11, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
Jan 31, 2012
Nicole
marked it as to-read
Mar 23, 2012
Erin
marked it as to-read
Nov 08, 2015
Sharon
marked it as b-list
