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exalaskan's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
john_the_captain's review against another edition
4.0
I liked this book, the story is told in the form of a diary, and, whilst not unique this style pulls it apart from the many post-apocalyptic books out there.
This is the first of a quadrilogy and I'm looking forward to reading the others. This written all the way back in 2006 before the genre really got going (thanks TWD) its an interesting young adult story told from the POV of a teen girl, starting out with all the concerns and crap a teenager has to the brutal reality of surviving when the World comes to an end.
Well worth a go if you love this genre. Available for FREE in Irish Libraries.
This is the first of a quadrilogy and I'm looking forward to reading the others. This written all the way back in 2006 before the genre really got going (thanks TWD) its an interesting young adult story told from the POV of a teen girl, starting out with all the concerns and crap a teenager has to the brutal reality of surviving when the World comes to an end.
Well worth a go if you love this genre. Available for FREE in Irish Libraries.
whitneysederberg's review against another edition
2.0
Despite being misogynistic, religion maligning and unscientific, this was still an interesting story and an entertaining apocalypse read during an apocalypse.
krisaacs's review against another edition
3.0
Yikes! This one hits a little bit too close to home these days. When it was written in 2006 I’m sure it was all “ ha ha wouldn’t that be crazy if there was an apocalyptic run on grocery stores,” but now it’s just
rebekahcsmith123's review against another edition
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.5
a_strix_named_strix's review against another edition
4.0
It wasn't perfect, but it actually felt like characters could die or leave, not be kept there by the author.
jenmangler's review against another edition
3.0
This book that makes me realize how completely and utterly unprepared I am for life in survival mode, and I'd be lying if I said that didn't scare the hell out of me just a little bit. It also makes me appreciate even more all the things I take for granted that make my life possible.
Re-read December 2022: Mrs. Nesbitt. Reading this book for the 3rd time, it was Mrs. Nesbitt that I was particularly drawn to. She really got to me this time.
Re-read December 2022: Mrs. Nesbitt. Reading this book for the 3rd time, it was Mrs. Nesbitt that I was particularly drawn to. She really got to me this time.
lemonlovee's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
valouche13's review against another edition
5.0
I've read this book twice already and I am still stunned by the way it manages to feel both real and surreal at the same time. Every time I close the book, I'm surprised to find that the events I read about didn't, in fact, happened for real! I absolutely love it!
runaps's review against another edition
3.0
This is a 3.5 stars read for me.
I liked how it started from before, and as such we had the opportunity to get to know the characters while they were untouched by all the tragedy that comes with an apocalypse, and although I don’t usually enjoy journal like books, I enjoyed this one.
For me it was a bit like when I was a teenager reading every dystopian book I could get my hands into. This felt nostalgic, and it wasn’t the greatest book ever written, but I enjoyed.
I didn’t care much about Miranda, and my favorite character was Matt, by far (that changed in later books, but in the first one I really, really liked him and how he handled everything it was thrown at them).
That being said, I hated how basically everyone just decided (even if reluctantly, when it came to Miranda) that the Jon should be the one to survive. They should all slowly waste away while he survived. At first I got their point, how could I not?
But once they became all sick and Miranda didn’t, Matt told her to leave the skis, so Jon would have it when he needed.
Why? He would be dead if not for her. Her immunity system was the stronger. It was a no brainer for me.
Yes, the post apocalyptic world would be dangerous for a woman, arguably a lot more than our own world would be, but was that reason enough to give up on her chance for survival? Really?
What did Jon do to earn it? Help getting firewood?
And the division of jobs, with Miranda doing mostly all of the housework once their mother wasted away enough to be too weak to help, what was up with that?
If Jon was expected to be the sole survivor, how would he survive not knowing to do >anythingFor most of the time he ate more than anyone, they had hidden from him the world stuff, but they kept acting like they would be around to baby him so more. It didn’t make any sense.
For a large part of the book I kept picturing him as a seven year old only by the way they talked about him, not a fourteen year old kid.
And when he threw the tantrum about not eating enough Burguers to grow enough to be on the baseball league… like… seriously? That’s what you get from sheltering the kid too much.
By the end of the book Matt was still my favorite, but I couldn’t help but want to take Miranda away from her own family. She grew up so much, sacrificed so much, took it all so well (all things considered) and had almost NO support, no one saw what she did and worried about her.
…because she wasn’t the younger male.
Even her thought that way, and that made me so sad.
I’m writing this after reading the first 3 books and giving up completely on the last one tho.
I liked how it started from before, and as such we had the opportunity to get to know the characters while they were untouched by all the tragedy that comes with an apocalypse, and although I don’t usually enjoy journal like books, I enjoyed this one.
For me it was a bit like when I was a teenager reading every dystopian book I could get my hands into. This felt nostalgic, and it wasn’t the greatest book ever written, but I enjoyed.
I didn’t care much about Miranda, and my favorite character was Matt, by far (that changed in later books, but in the first one I really, really liked him and how he handled everything it was thrown at them).
That being said, I hated how basically everyone just decided (even if reluctantly, when it came to Miranda) that the Jon should be the one to survive. They should all slowly waste away while he survived. At first I got their point, how could I not?
But once they became all sick and Miranda didn’t, Matt told her to leave the skis, so Jon would have it when he needed.
Why? He would be dead if not for her. Her immunity system was the stronger. It was a no brainer for me.
Yes, the post apocalyptic world would be dangerous for a woman, arguably a lot more than our own world would be, but was that reason enough to give up on her chance for survival? Really?
What did Jon do to earn it? Help getting firewood?
And the division of jobs, with Miranda doing mostly all of the housework once their mother wasted away enough to be too weak to help, what was up with that?
If Jon was expected to be the sole survivor, how would he survive not knowing to do >anythingFor most of the time he ate more than anyone, they had hidden from him the world stuff, but they kept acting like they would be around to baby him so more. It didn’t make any sense.
For a large part of the book I kept picturing him as a seven year old only by the way they talked about him, not a fourteen year old kid.
And when he threw the tantrum about not eating enough Burguers to grow enough to be on the baseball league… like… seriously? That’s what you get from sheltering the kid too much.
By the end of the book Matt was still my favorite, but I couldn’t help but want to take Miranda away from her own family. She grew up so much, sacrificed so much, took it all so well (all things considered) and had almost NO support, no one saw what she did and worried about her.
…because she wasn’t the younger male.
Even her thought that way, and that made me so sad.
I’m writing this after reading the first 3 books and giving up completely on the last one tho.