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Trapped

Michael Northrop

3.03 AVERAGE


I'm sitting in my house in Florida and I'm reading trapped. As I kept reading I got colder and colder and colder until I had to put a blanket around me. Obviously the author did a great job of setting the scene. I did like this book and I'm giving it a pretty high rating – more than I usually do for most young adult books.

Hum. I kept seeing this book on Pinterest and it sounded interesting and different so why not. well it was interesting and different but I think it needed more. More detail, more closer, a real ending. Seven kids sit in a room.... more should have happened. some of the stuff the main character said I don't think you really ever found out or about it even happened. I hated how it ended but I couldn't put it down. when I got to the end I said that's it!?!?!?

Super spannend!

This book found interesting me with it's title and cover, so I read content and I had to take it. It was somenthing else, real and original too. I started to read it in library and I finished two days later. I must say it disappoint me. Action was smooth at the beggining, but then there was nothing happening. Author just described how boys and girls tried to survive. I think this part was little bit boring, there was no action. On the other side, second part was really fast. I liked it at the begging and at the end, middle was just boring.
Regarding characters, it was something new for me, because it was written from the perspective of 16-years old boy. Main character wasn't interesting for me, I just didn't love him like other main characters from other books. Maybe I just liked Jason, because of his effort help them more than others.
Just one thing moved me - it was death of one person.
The end was really opened, maybe Michael should write continued. It was written hazily and I liked it.
challenging dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Did not make sense. Waste of time

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Fast-paced teen/YA novel about 7 teens trapped in their high school without power during a blizzard - a suspenseful survival story that would be perfect for reluctant teen readers (or grown-ups like me!). Read my full review at:

http://greatbooksforkidsandteens.blogspot.com/2013/02/teenya-review-trapped.html

While, yes, we do get it that Someone is Going to Die before the book is over (seriously, you bring it up every three pages, it feels like), this book is a pretty delightfully cold little beast. The details are simply chilling. More than anything, though, the design of the book is what got me. The way the chapter pages just slowly get more and more snow-filled, going from kind of pretty to altogether terrifying. Mmm, yes.

But, seriously, kids, you can find the teacher's lounge and get the emergency kit there. You know, flashlights and emergency radios and things. And maybe just stay in the nurse's room, with the cots and such? No? Okay. You are only freshmen and sophomores. I can't rag on you that much. You did your best.
dark sad medium-paced
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madinor10's review

3.0

This book is definitely a quick read, and I liked it, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did when I was a teenager.

So-so, but a good premise, easy to booktalk. Seems a little unbelievable until the recent power outages in CT. Make me want to buy a pair of snowshoes!