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The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
Julia is 11 years old when the world begins slowing down, and news stations all over the world struggle to calm the rising panic. As the days get longer, clear divides begin to form between the people who want to maintain a regular 24 hour day and those who want to try to live their lives during the extended daylight periods and sleep whenever the skies turn dark again. Prejudices form. Doomsday cults are created. Animals go extinct. Mystery illnesses plague the population. As Julia witnesses her friends and family morph into people she doesn’t even recognize anymore, she begins to question whether it’s a normal part of growing up or yet another symptom of the slowing.
This coming-of-age story is set in a sort of dystopian version of our world. Yet unlike a lot of more popular books of the genre, there isn’t a whole lot going on: people are just kind of waiting on the world to end. Especially where Julia’s family in concerned: her father still goes to work at the local hospital, her mother still goes shopping at the grocery store, and Julia herself spends her days attending middle school like usual. The author really focuses on Juila’s personal struggles as a maturing young woman in a time of environmental insecurity rather than develop the apocalyptic plot, which left a lot of unanswered questions during my read. And unfortunately, Julia’s personal struggles are not fun to read about.
There was nothing enjoyable about this read. The writing was amateur. The plot, premise, and characters were undeveloped. The read was boring. When shit actually happened, it was all extremely sad and depressing, but it wasn’t like I could even really care since the characters were just so unbelievable.
If you’re looking for a good YA dystopian read, focus on the more popular titles like Divergent and The Hunger Games: at least those characters are worth reading about.
This coming-of-age story is set in a sort of dystopian version of our world. Yet unlike a lot of more popular books of the genre, there isn’t a whole lot going on: people are just kind of waiting on the world to end. Especially where Julia’s family in concerned: her father still goes to work at the local hospital, her mother still goes shopping at the grocery store, and Julia herself spends her days attending middle school like usual. The author really focuses on Juila’s personal struggles as a maturing young woman in a time of environmental insecurity rather than develop the apocalyptic plot, which left a lot of unanswered questions during my read. And unfortunately, Julia’s personal struggles are not fun to read about.
There was nothing enjoyable about this read. The writing was amateur. The plot, premise, and characters were undeveloped. The read was boring. When shit actually happened, it was all extremely sad and depressing, but it wasn’t like I could even really care since the characters were just so unbelievable.
If you’re looking for a good YA dystopian read, focus on the more popular titles like Divergent and The Hunger Games: at least those characters are worth reading about.