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lesserjoke 's review for:
The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
I had a really hard time suspending my disbelief for this novel, which admittedly may be less of an issue for the younger readers in its intended audience. But so many aspects of Ember's civilization just didn't ring true for me, from the drawing of job assignments out of a bag to the utter incuriosity at innovation even in the face of looming disaster to the spottiness of what has and hasn't been remembered from the world before. If you can set all of that aside, The City of Ember is a decent story of humanity's bleak future and the children who try to escape it, but for most of the book I just wasn't able to get beyond those flaws and believe in this world.