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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
More like a 1.5… Read this book with my after school students and it was a snooze fest! Very anticlimactic throughout.
4.5 ⭐
Excellent dystopian middle grade!! The story reminded me of a mix between The Giver series and The Village movie. Expertly told with suspense, tension, and a bit of mystery. Highly recommend!
Excellent dystopian middle grade!! The story reminded me of a mix between The Giver series and The Village movie. Expertly told with suspense, tension, and a bit of mystery. Highly recommend!
This book was recommended by a very serious book-reader friend of mine, which is how I got to know of this in the first place.
I liked the book. I liked the storyline, the pace at which the story moved, the plot and the world created in it. No, I do not want to live in that world, and the thought and subsequent thoughts about living in a city like Ember are freaking me out, but you get the jist, right? I have imagined it enough to be scared, and thats because of the description in the book.
Without exactly giving away words or situations which will scare me, the author has managed to do that by just the portrayal of the situations in this book.
However, I still think that the world created in Hunger Games is richer than the one in Ember, and I credit it to the author.
There are a couple of logical flaws in this book, which work against the basic science I studied back in school, but I will overlook them, hoping they get answered in the next in the series.
I am not going to grab the next in the series immediately like how I did to Hunger Games, but I will read it for sure.
Pick up this book if you want to read a story set in a dystopian disappointed world. If you cannot imagine anything like that ever, give this book a pass.
I've been meaning to read this for years, and I finally got to it, and I'm glad I did!
This was a simple, quick story meant for YA audiences. A series set in the same world but from the adult perspective would have been more interesting to me, but as told by 12-year-olds, it wasn't as complex as I would've liked.
Note: I listened to this as an audiobook rather than reading it, which may have contributed to why I didn't love it. The way most characters were voiced distracted too much from their words for me.
Note: I listened to this as an audiobook rather than reading it, which may have contributed to why I didn't love it. The way most characters were voiced distracted too much from their words for me.
Buddy read with Jake- great book. Will be getting next in series
Wonderful and creative. I would put this book right up there with "The Giver"!
This is totally about information retrieval systems. People several hundred years ago who feared humanity would die out set up a society deep underground to ensure the survival of humanity. After many generations go by, no one underground remembers anything different. But their supplies underground are running out.
This book is going on my favorites shelf! I loved the story and the characters and I'm excited to continue the series! I hope the next three books go into what happened before and what happens after this book. I want to know it all! I'm hooked.