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travelgirlut 's review for:
Only You Can Save Mankind
by Terry Pratchett
I love the concept of this book: using video games to secretly fight a war. It seems particularly possible in this day of drones in our skies watching over us and keeping us "safe." What if those drones were actually being controlled by some kid who thought he was playing a video game? That's the idea in this book, but it's aliens in space being fought off by kids glued to their computers. I think the concept was weakened by the dream sequences. The story would have come off more believable if all the fighting had been done from the computer.
I like Pratchett's witty writing style in the Discworld series, but it seems slightly out of place in this book geared towards kids. I don't know many preteen kids who speak like the kids in this book.
But all in all it was a quick fun read.
I like Pratchett's witty writing style in the Discworld series, but it seems slightly out of place in this book geared towards kids. I don't know many preteen kids who speak like the kids in this book.
But all in all it was a quick fun read.