197 reviews for:

Away

Megan E. Freeman

4.01 AVERAGE

meganmcc1234's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

4_leaf_clover14's review

4.25

challenging hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

rbevelsmith's review

4.25

adventurous tense medium-paced

bjackrian's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kkh2025's review

5.0

mysterious medium-paced

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An interesting companion to Alone.

angiedkelly's review

3.75

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

me2023's review

3.0

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This was a quick read told from multiple POVs that I rather liked, even though I haven't read the author's previous book, Alone.

The characters were well crafted for such a quick book and I grew to like them all. I did find the multiple POVs hard to get into, especially Teddy's screenplay narrative, but eventually it started to come together. The audiobook narrators did a fantastic job and kept me engaged, even if some of the plot points seemed unrealistic.

Overall, I would recommend this book as fairly light YA dystopia and found family story. It was short and sweet, but not something that I plan to reread anytime soon.

Thank you to Libro FM and Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC.

wozleigh's review

4.5

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

actually_cait's review against another edition

3.5

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Alone and Away are novels in verse about a single event, a town is told there is a threat and they must evacuate. Alone is told from the POV of a child inadvertently left behind and how she survives; Away is told from multiple POVs of children who are evacuated. Which to read first? I have seen lists with one or the other as #1.  Alone was written first and I read it first. In my opinion, it should be first. I don’t think it would be as powerful if read second. 

scarletraven13's review

2.0

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes