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sarahbeesley's review against another edition
4.0
ack. this book was stressful! really interesting to read but I'm a little curious how they made a 3 part series... it feels essentially wrapped up w/ the 1st one.
madi180's review against another edition
4.0
can't wait to read the 2nd one to find out what happens!!
skywalkersyd's review against another edition
4.0
This book totally did a complete turn around for me. For the first half I wasn't feeling this book at all and there were no characters I felt a connection with, but as the story developed I found that I couldn't put it down. Im not a big fan of having a pointless love interest, but the love interest for our main character is awesome, and he actually teaches her to protect herself instead of having her be a damsel in distress 25/8. This book was so extremely intriguing to read that I'm writing this at 4:30am because I couldn't put it down. I was excited to read this book and it lived up to my expectations completely.
jennilind's review against another edition
5.0
[b:The Way We Fall|8573632|The Way We Fall (Fallen World, #1)|Megan Crewe|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1316718389s/8573632.jpg|13442456] gives good atmosphere.
The book has a simple overall premise: A small island, not far from the coast of Canada, is suddenly overcome with a flu-like disease that begins rapidly killing people off as the government places the island in quarantine and they lose access to be able to reach anyone outside of the island itself -- and manages to wonderfully build up what that experience could be like.
This story has a very limited viewpoint - that of a young girl named Kaelyn - who is confused about what's happening while on an island closed off from the rest of the world. Kaelyn doesn't have a god-like omni-present knowledge and she shouldn't. If this situation was to happen, and this story truly gives you a feeling that this really could happen, then you would be left in the dark just as much as she is.
So, what do you do with a story set like that then? You build atmosphere. You build survival. You build human created chaos in the face of mass hysteria due to a sickness and that aforementioned lack of information. This story has an abundance of that and I absolutely loved it.
Some favorite passages:
“This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.”
"We're on a cliff, all of us, and surviving isn't about who's the best or the brightest. It's about holding on as long as we can and trying, and failing, and trying again until we've inched a little closer to getting through this."
The book has a simple overall premise: A small island, not far from the coast of Canada, is suddenly overcome with a flu-like disease that begins rapidly killing people off as the government places the island in quarantine and they lose access to be able to reach anyone outside of the island itself -- and manages to wonderfully build up what that experience could be like.
This story has a very limited viewpoint - that of a young girl named Kaelyn - who is confused about what's happening while on an island closed off from the rest of the world. Kaelyn doesn't have a god-like omni-present knowledge and she shouldn't. If this situation was to happen, and this story truly gives you a feeling that this really could happen, then you would be left in the dark just as much as she is.
So, what do you do with a story set like that then? You build atmosphere. You build survival. You build human created chaos in the face of mass hysteria due to a sickness and that aforementioned lack of information. This story has an abundance of that and I absolutely loved it.
Some favorite passages:
“This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.”
"We're on a cliff, all of us, and surviving isn't about who's the best or the brightest. It's about holding on as long as we can and trying, and failing, and trying again until we've inched a little closer to getting through this."
helpicantread's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Just drys out
Content Warnings
Minor: Death
piperkitty81's review against another edition
4.0
I read this one quickly. It’s exciting and hard to put down. Probably not the best novel to read while dealing with a hacking cough though, since it’s one of the deadly virus symptoms. Lol!
inkygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Warning: DON'T start reading this book unless you have a solid chunk of time. Because once you start reading it, it'll be hard to stop. I bought this at the author's launch event, started reading it on the subway on the way home, ended up finishing the book late that night in bed.
I'm a fan of contagion/dystopian YA fiction, and this is one of my faves. Not only is the story thoroughly engrossing, but (unlike so many mainstream contagion stories) the characters are multilayered and the relationships intriguing (my favourite character: Tessa).
Can't wait to read the next in the series!
I'm a fan of contagion/dystopian YA fiction, and this is one of my faves. Not only is the story thoroughly engrossing, but (unlike so many mainstream contagion stories) the characters are multilayered and the relationships intriguing (my favourite character: Tessa).
Can't wait to read the next in the series!
lisaluvsliterature's review against another edition
4.0
I was unsure whether to go ahead and post a review of this since it doesn't come out until January, but saw that everyone else seemed to, so here goes.
Again, people call this a dystopian book, but to me this isn't what I consider dystopian. It is science fiction to me. There is a disease that starts to take out a whole island population, I think in Canada. Of course the government decides on a quarantine to keep it contained. This virus starts by making you feel like you have the flu, then you become really friendly and gossipy and will say whatever is on your mind. The main character is Kaelyn, and she first is introduced to this virus when her friend's father who has been sick says some really kind of prejudiced things to her when she is at their house one day. The story is told through her letters that she is writing to a boy who used to be her best friend. She is writing him because she was not nice to him right before he left the island. So we get to see the whole thing through her eyes. We get to hear about the people of the island panicking when they feel that the government has left them to die. Her father is actually a doctor who deals with this type of issue and so he is at the hosptital constantly and Kaelyn and her mother and brother must make it without him. She also has an uncle and cousin on the island, who it ends up they must take care of them as well at a point.
I like the science details, not too detailed for just anyone to read, like a teen, but enough that as someone who would have been really into the science at that age would be sucked in. Maybe it is the fact that I just saw the movie Contagion recently as well, but it was a good book, and I was hooked. Like another review on Goodreads said, it started a bit slow, but once the disease started taking over, I was at a point I didn't want to put it down. Can't wait to put it on my recommendation table at the bookstore where I work!
Again, people call this a dystopian book, but to me this isn't what I consider dystopian. It is science fiction to me. There is a disease that starts to take out a whole island population, I think in Canada. Of course the government decides on a quarantine to keep it contained. This virus starts by making you feel like you have the flu, then you become really friendly and gossipy and will say whatever is on your mind. The main character is Kaelyn, and she first is introduced to this virus when her friend's father who has been sick says some really kind of prejudiced things to her when she is at their house one day. The story is told through her letters that she is writing to a boy who used to be her best friend. She is writing him because she was not nice to him right before he left the island. So we get to see the whole thing through her eyes. We get to hear about the people of the island panicking when they feel that the government has left them to die. Her father is actually a doctor who deals with this type of issue and so he is at the hosptital constantly and Kaelyn and her mother and brother must make it without him. She also has an uncle and cousin on the island, who it ends up they must take care of them as well at a point.
I like the science details, not too detailed for just anyone to read, like a teen, but enough that as someone who would have been really into the science at that age would be sucked in. Maybe it is the fact that I just saw the movie Contagion recently as well, but it was a good book, and I was hooked. Like another review on Goodreads said, it started a bit slow, but once the disease started taking over, I was at a point I didn't want to put it down. Can't wait to put it on my recommendation table at the bookstore where I work!
kerilynnxo's review against another edition
2.0
I hate to give this such a low rating. It wasn't a BAD book. I just couldn't connect with the main character. Parts of it had me really bored. The story itself was so promising. I just didn't feel like there was enough action. And some stuff just didn't make sense.
librosconte's review against another edition
3.0
⚠️ trigger warnings: virus, epidemia, cuarentena, muertes (muchas), intento de suicidio.
"When is the virus ever going to be satisfied?
When does this stop? Why can't it just leave us alone?"
No voy a negarles, empecé esto porque me sentía con el mood re acorde a leer un libro de virus. Y, si recuerdan, la primera semana de la cuarentena, allá por marzo (uf, se sienten siglos) leí Wilder Girls, aunque en mi defensa entré a leer ese sin saber que los personajes estaban en cuarentena😅
Bueno, pero esta vez sí, fue por propia voluntad. Tenía esta trilogía en la mira desde hace muchos años porque amo las portadas y sus títulos en español (en inglés son👎) y finalmente me digné a leerla aprovechando el mood.
En Aislados nos encontramos en una isla, en la cual hay un brote de un virus y, por lo tanto, se pone en cuarentena toda la isla para que no se expanda al resto dr la población. Nuestra protagonista se llama Kaelyn, una adolescente de 16 años, si mal no recuerdo, hija de un microbiólogo.
La historia está narrada desde el punto de vista de la protagonista y en formato de cartas. Toooda la novela son cartas que Kaelyn le escribe a su mejor amigo, Leo, quien hace poco se mudó afuera de la isla. Los capítulos son cortos y amenos, y la historia entretiene, pero lamentablemente la narración no me terminó de convencer del todo. Creo que hubiese conectado más con la historia si no hubiese estado narrado en forma epistolar.
La primera parte del libro engancha, intriga mucho y, por ende, se lee rápido. Pero una vez que llegás a la mitad, sentí que la historia seguía sin mucha necesidad. Considerando que esto es una trilogía, no sé que más quería comentar al respecto en este primer libro pero lo sentí con bastante relleno.
"Seems to me they're sick too. Sick with fear. Sick with selfishness."
Lamentablemente, se me hizo bastante juvenil. A veces lo sentía más como un juvenil contemporáneo con virus que ciencia ficción juvenil. No era lo que yo estaba buscando.
Y ustedes dirán "¿por qué te pusiste a leer un libro juvenil si no era lo que querías?", y es que Virus Letal de James Dashner me encantó! Es juvenil, es distópico, hay un virus; es prefecto🤩 Pero lamentablemente Aislados terminó pasando sin pena ni gloria.
Además, como es una trilogía, tenía esperanzas con que fuese un post apocalíptico lleno de acción. Y no pasó.
Otro aspecto negativo que le encontré a la historia es que la protagonista, quien, como dije, es adolescente, a veces tenía pensamientos y actitudes pertenecientes a su edad, y esto está perfecto. Pero luego a veces se empezaba a preguntar cosas sobre el virus y qué hacer con esto, y con lo otro, y que si el virus tarda tanto tiempo en matar al infectado, y que si una persona infectada se podía volver a contagiar, etc etc etc(?). Y se ponía a investigar y cosas así, que no me parecían actitudes de una adolescente. En medio de una epidemia, a una adolescente no creo que le importe mucho el tema del virus y se empiece a cuestionar cosas. He sido adolescente en medio de la pandemia de la influenza y la verdad que a mi me resbalaba tres quinotos la pandemia😅😂 Con decirles que no quería ponerme barbijo porque me parecía "cualquiera" les digo todo😅 Pero la niña de esta novela a veces tenía actitudes no acordes a su edad. Está bien, tu padre es microbiólogo, but still... No me terminaba de cerrar. No me pareció para nada creíble ese aspecto.
Ahora, pasando a hablar de aspectos positivos, el virus. Como mencioné anteriormente, el virus no es el centro de la trama al 100%, pero es una parte importante y está todo muy bien reflejado. La epidemia, la cuarentena, los síntomas del resfrío, el pánico, todo muy real👏 Y eso es lo más importante, para mi, de una novela de virus, el lograr un relato super creíble, factible, tan real que al relacionarlo con nuestra situación actual no encuentres muchas diferencias. Y eso pasó👏
Además de lo realista del virus, las muertes. Me encantaron. Si son de esos lectores que no les gusta que muera nadie, no creo que esta sea su novela😅 Pero yo aprecié muchísimo las muertes porque en esta novela hay cero escrúpulos al respecto. Se infecta el que se infecta, muere el que muere, sin importar si eran personajes importantes en la historia o si estaban relacionados a los protagonistas. Y esto estuvo perfecto porque hizo aún más real la epidemia.
Sumado a todo esto, hay un par de escenas fuertes que, de nuevo, se super aprecian y agradecen por brindarle más realismo a la enfermedad.
"This is what we do. We make tea, we read books and watch people die."
En resumen, una novela juvenil entretenida y realista. Dejando de lado el drama juvenil que cada tanto aparece, es una novela que entretiene. Es muy realista (tan realista que mueren personajes importantes en la historia porque la vida es así, los virus son así. Atacan sin escrúpulos(?) pero a veces tiene mucho relleno. El final queda abierto, por supuesto, es una trilogía, pero no creo necesaria la existencia de más libros siguiendo esta historia. Al menos yo, no planeo seguir con la saga.
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