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nina_pile's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
sdertinger's review against another edition
5.0
My oh my. I am so glad I read Bloom a couple months ago and then Hatch released to NetGalley this past month. If you've read Bloom, then you know how intense and on-your-toes you felt. Well, take that times fifty and you've got Hatch!
At the end of Bloom you were left wondering what was in these raindrops that started to hatch. At the start of Hatch, we get another fast-forward chapter where you are reading and you're super confused, but then when you finish it tells you that this is what happened two weeks later. Then you pick back up on the ending scene from Bloom.
Anaya, Petra, and Seth are immune to the plants and the chemicals they put off into the air, but as this rain starts yet again the worst is yet to come. The rain brings eggs, eggs that hatch into crypotgen insects? I am talking a full variety of species of insects—flying insects, insects with razor sharp spinning teeth, and insects that like to eat the other insects. Soon the government figures out their little secret and they are shipped off to who-knows-where. In this facility they are unsure what the government thinks of them, if they will ever get to see their families again, and what their purpose of being there is when the world is yet again about to wreak havoc.
I, of course, do not want to share everything, but just know that this was TRULY an edge-of-your-seat sequel to Bloom. Things escalate quickly and you will not be able to stop flipping the pages. I could not put it down nor step away.
P.S. AGAIN, you will be left HANGING at the end of this one. Ugh! Kenneth Oppel is too good and I already cannot wait for Thrive, the final of the trilogy, to be here!
At the end of Bloom you were left wondering what was in these raindrops that started to hatch. At the start of Hatch, we get another fast-forward chapter where you are reading and you're super confused, but then when you finish it tells you that this is what happened two weeks later. Then you pick back up on the ending scene from Bloom.
Anaya, Petra, and Seth are immune to the plants and the chemicals they put off into the air, but as this rain starts yet again the worst is yet to come. The rain brings eggs, eggs that hatch into crypotgen insects? I am talking a full variety of species of insects—flying insects, insects with razor sharp spinning teeth, and insects that like to eat the other insects. Soon the government figures out their little secret and they are shipped off to who-knows-where. In this facility they are unsure what the government thinks of them, if they will ever get to see their families again, and what their purpose of being there is when the world is yet again about to wreak havoc.
I, of course, do not want to share everything, but just know that this was TRULY an edge-of-your-seat sequel to Bloom. Things escalate quickly and you will not be able to stop flipping the pages. I could not put it down nor step away.
P.S. AGAIN, you will be left HANGING at the end of this one. Ugh! Kenneth Oppel is too good and I already cannot wait for Thrive, the final of the trilogy, to be here!
msmecarr's review against another edition
5.0
This book was like a love letter to many great Science Fiction books and movies over time. I read this book in one day while buried under the covers. I had to stop and come back a few times because it was so intense. It was excruciating waiting for book 2 of the series, it's going to be even tougher waiting for the next one.
My school district nominated Bloom (Book 1) as a Surrey Schools Book of the Year https://thessboy.weebly.com/
Warning: This book is recommended for middle grade and/or young adult. There is quite a bit of violence, so if your child is easily frightened, you might want to skip it.
My school district nominated Bloom (Book 1) as a Surrey Schools Book of the Year https://thessboy.weebly.com/
Warning: This book is recommended for middle grade and/or young adult. There is quite a bit of violence, so if your child is easily frightened, you might want to skip it.
pussreboots's review against another edition
2.0
Like the first book I listened to the audio. Here with a plot moving slower than molasses in January, Sophie Amoss's habit of carefully enunciating and drawing out each syllable made me want to throw my phone across the room. If I decide to finish reading this trilogy when the final book releases in May, I will be reading it as an ebook.
cweichel's review against another edition
5.0
In Bloom, the first in this series, a strange rain fell from the skies and deadly alien plants started taking over the planet.
By the end of it, scientists, with the help of three hybrid teenagers, seemed to have a pesticide to control them. The book ended with a new rainfall, this time dropping eggs of new kinds of monstrous insects.
Hatch begins with the three teens, Anya, Seth, and Petra, being taken from their parents into an underground bunker somewhere in America. The meet other children just like them. As they get stronger physically from the programs in place to learn more about them, they discover that they have telepathy. The person in control of the facility there, Dr Ritter, has nefarious plans for all of them. While they are underground the insects are multiplying and evolving to become larger and more dangerous. They manage to escape and most are rescued and returned to Deadman's Island military base where they are kept hidden from Dr Ritter and other governmental agencies. Seth and four other teens didn't make it. Anya has been contacted by one of the aliens who claims to want to work with them to save the planet and in turn, save themselves.
This is so intense that when I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I don't know how I going to be able to survive until May 4th, when Thrive, the third in this series, is published.
By the end of it, scientists, with the help of three hybrid teenagers, seemed to have a pesticide to control them. The book ended with a new rainfall, this time dropping eggs of new kinds of monstrous insects.
Hatch begins with the three teens, Anya, Seth, and Petra, being taken from their parents into an underground bunker somewhere in America. The meet other children just like them. As they get stronger physically from the programs in place to learn more about them, they discover that they have telepathy. The person in control of the facility there, Dr Ritter, has nefarious plans for all of them. While they are underground the insects are multiplying and evolving to become larger and more dangerous. They manage to escape and most are rescued and returned to Deadman's Island military base where they are kept hidden from Dr Ritter and other governmental agencies. Seth and four other teens didn't make it. Anya has been contacted by one of the aliens who claims to want to work with them to save the planet and in turn, save themselves.
This is so intense that when I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I don't know how I going to be able to survive until May 4th, when Thrive, the third in this series, is published.
shayemiller's review against another edition
5.0
As I shared back in April, this series has been an incredible match for what we’re currently experiencing in real life with Covid-19. Book #1, Bloom, seemed almost prophetic when I first read it as the US blames China, there’s no toilet paper, and people begin wearing masks. Nevertheless, this series is definitely science fiction with the alien element to it. Strange plants appeared practically overnight and they couldn’t be killed. As the death toll increases, Anaya, Petra, and Seth appear to be the key to the planet’s survival.
Then book #2, Hatch, pulled me much deeper into the fictional world as we learn that this trio, with their unique abilities, are not alone. There are more like them. In fact, they quickly discover they can communicate telepathically, which is unusually personal and intimate with elements of smell and color. As we’d expect, the government realizes these children might not be 100% human, so they take them into custody to study. But one thing is for certain, even behind several feet of cement or buried in a deep bunker, there’s nowhere safe on Earth with so many things hatching.
I can't get enough of this series! I hope everyone does themselves a favor and purchases the first two books of this series. The third book will be released this spring and it’s going to be a very difficult wait! Talk about a cliffhanger… Hurry up May 4th! My thanks to Netgalley, HarperCollins, and Kenneth Oppel for providing me with a digital ARC so that I could write an honest review.
For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!
Then book #2, Hatch, pulled me much deeper into the fictional world as we learn that this trio, with their unique abilities, are not alone. There are more like them. In fact, they quickly discover they can communicate telepathically, which is unusually personal and intimate with elements of smell and color. As we’d expect, the government realizes these children might not be 100% human, so they take them into custody to study. But one thing is for certain, even behind several feet of cement or buried in a deep bunker, there’s nowhere safe on Earth with so many things hatching.
I can't get enough of this series! I hope everyone does themselves a favor and purchases the first two books of this series. The third book will be released this spring and it’s going to be a very difficult wait! Talk about a cliffhanger… Hurry up May 4th! My thanks to Netgalley, HarperCollins, and Kenneth Oppel for providing me with a digital ARC so that I could write an honest review.
For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!