536 reviews for:

Ground Zero

Alan Gratz

4.35 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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: Yes

Alan Gratz is a master at writing historical fiction and making it accessible for all readers. The perspectives in the book brought me to tears. It was a gut wrenching read to see Brandon trying survive the collapsing towers. It was heartbreaking to see how war and hate can spiral continuously. Timely and honest.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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sidkneelions's review

5.0
emotional informative inspiring sad 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: Yes
dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Complicated
adventurous challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced
emotional reflective sad 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

real rating: 4.5 rounded down
slight spoilers..

i loved loved loved this book, it was something truly amazing. I loved how he captured everything that was going on and how the characters connected. I can truly understand and (partially) try to relate to my mother who has gone through 9/11 first hand in New York.

the parallelism took a long time to start paralleling but once it did OH MY GOD did it parallel