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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Vomit
Minor: Transphobia, Religious bigotry
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-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:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood
Minor: Ableism, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I think this was a very well written story about A pandemic and how a group of abandoned teens responded to it. I bet we'd all like to think that we'd do as well with supporting each other in their situation. What did we each do to support others during our pandemic? Because I think the pandemic was different for everyone. We lived in places that had different accesses or loss of accesses to products, including food. The pandemic truly needed to transcend color, race, or sexual orientation, and I don't always think we responded to that. This is not a happy story, and it is different enough from what most of us experienced that we can say it isn't a factual story...but it certainly is possible.
emotional
tense
medium-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
was expecting something different but this was good. i like the trope of teens being left to run things themselves a lot. Didnt rlly leave any type of impression on me except for SPOILER when the leader dies . That was crazy. Lacking in characterization for like everyone else tho. Multiple povs didnt rlly work here. Disease left a bit to be desired. Cool concept tho w like one rlly good character.
A dystopian novel about a private youth treatment center. The teens in the story are from a variety of backgrounds – a non-binary kid whose parents turn their back on them, a deaf girl and her sister rerouted from social services, several multicultural kids with police records, the list goes on. The staff of the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center near Sam’s Throne, Arkansas have stopped showing up to work, though. The teens are on their own, and they have to decide if they have the will to go out and find out what’s going on. They have Warden Davis’ computer to search the internet, and the word on the streets is not good. A plague is raging, and they may be safer in the treatment center on their own than venturing out. The food and supplies at the treatment center won’t last forever, though. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road meets The Girl Who Owned a City. This story has all the trappings of one that sticks with you. Haunting and harrowing. A dark tale for dark times.
Themes and topics: misgendering, unwanted touching, attempted rape, neglect, abuse.
This review is based on the Advance Reader's Edition provided to me by the publisher.
Themes and topics: misgendering, unwanted touching, attempted rape, neglect, abuse.
This review is based on the Advance Reader's Edition provided to me by the publisher.
Get ready to be transported back to 2019/2020!
Although the pandemic in this book is far more intense than what we experienced with Covid-19, the emotional weight and uncertainty felt oddly familiar.
I can see this book resonating deeply with readers especially young adults who are still figuring out who they are or have just begun to find their place. I was hooked from start to finish, constantly wondering what would happen next in this unpredictable, high stakes world.
At its heart, this book is about survival, not just physically, but emotionally. It dives into what it means to be left behind, to rely solely on yourself, and then be forced to open up and trust others. The journey these characters take is raw, tense, and powerful.
It touches on important themes like identity, friendship, and found family, while also exploring heavier topics such as abuse, sexual assault, and crime.
That said, I’m rating this with the book’s intended young adult audience in mind.
Huge thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the ARC!
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is a pandemic novel and written in 2022 carries all the experiences, learnings and failures that that period held. There is an out break of plague (infact its THE plague) but its not an outbreak/zombie book. No shade on anyone else that's one of my favorite genres but this isn't one of those stories. This one begins a few days before the outbreak at The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center. We meet the teens dumped there and how they respond as they learn they are abandoned by their private company, guards and adults and when they try to leave are met with a police barricade enforcing a lockdown. How they try to organise, develop and survive is the story.
Told from three points of view: Logan, who communicates via a sign language she and her twin sister developed between them; Emerson, a new resident of Hope who’s also nonbinary; and Grace, a girl with some big anger issues who winds up reluctantly in charge of the group.
In many ways reflective of how the world responded to the COVID-19 outbreak it highlights that we as a community could have learned much from that experience.
Told from three points of view: Logan, who communicates via a sign language she and her twin sister developed between them; Emerson, a new resident of Hope who’s also nonbinary; and Grace, a girl with some big anger issues who winds up reluctantly in charge of the group.
In many ways reflective of how the world responded to the COVID-19 outbreak it highlights that we as a community could have learned much from that experience.
Marieke Nijkamp is een Nederlands schrijfster die al lang in Amerika woont en werkt. Ze schrijft in het Engels
Dit boek is geschreven tijdens corona en het gaat ook over een pandemie, maar dan niet corona.
Het speelt zich af in een centrum voor jongeren die iets hebben gedaan waar ze een paar maanden of langer worden opgesloten. Op een dag verdwijnen opeens alle medewerkers en de bewakers. Als een groepje naar de omheinende hekken gaan om naar opheldering te vragen worden ze met geweld terug gestuurd naar het centrum. Ze zijn op zichzelf aangewezen en dan wordt de ene na de andere jongere ziek.
Een groep onder leiding van Hunter besluiten over de hekken te klimmen en zo het centrum te verlaten. De rest moeten de taken verdelen. Een jongen, Casey, neemt de zorg voor de zieken op zich. Nia houdt zich bezig met de inventarisatie van het voedsel. En Grace wordt gekozen als leider van de groep
Ook de tweelingzusjes Logen en Leah maken deel uit van de kerngroep. Net als Emerson Ward die de tuin en de begraafplaats gaat verzorgen. Isaiah is goed met computers en gaat op zoek naar wat er buiten de hekken gebeurd. en dat is vrij verontrustend. Als het eten langzaam opraakt en de hekken niet meer worden bewaakt gaan er 2 of 3 jongeren het dichtstbijzijnde stadje in om in lege huizen te kijken wat er nog aan eten over is.
Een verhaal van hoop en vriendschap, van samenwerken en vergeven. Heel mooi gedaan
Dit boek is geschreven tijdens corona en het gaat ook over een pandemie, maar dan niet corona.
Het speelt zich af in een centrum voor jongeren die iets hebben gedaan waar ze een paar maanden of langer worden opgesloten. Op een dag verdwijnen opeens alle medewerkers en de bewakers. Als een groepje naar de omheinende hekken gaan om naar opheldering te vragen worden ze met geweld terug gestuurd naar het centrum. Ze zijn op zichzelf aangewezen en dan wordt de ene na de andere jongere ziek.
Een groep onder leiding van Hunter besluiten over de hekken te klimmen en zo het centrum te verlaten. De rest moeten de taken verdelen. Een jongen, Casey, neemt de zorg voor de zieken op zich. Nia houdt zich bezig met de inventarisatie van het voedsel. En Grace wordt gekozen als leider van de groep
Ook de tweelingzusjes Logen en Leah maken deel uit van de kerngroep. Net als Emerson Ward die de tuin en de begraafplaats gaat verzorgen. Isaiah is goed met computers en gaat op zoek naar wat er buiten de hekken gebeurd. en dat is vrij verontrustend. Als het eten langzaam opraakt en de hekken niet meer worden bewaakt gaan er 2 of 3 jongeren het dichtstbijzijnde stadje in om in lege huizen te kijken wat er nog aan eten over is.
Een verhaal van hoop en vriendschap, van samenwerken en vergeven. Heel mooi gedaan