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jinxofthedesert's review against another edition
3.0
I had to read this for Young Adult Lit class and it was an interesting read.
The change between character povs (point of views) was fun to read, everyone's voice was distinctive and really added something extra to the story.
The change between character povs (point of views) was fun to read, everyone's voice was distinctive and really added something extra to the story.
legolibrarian's review against another edition
2.0
It was OK (faint praise). Very readable and an interesting premise and a rather vague ending.
laura_vee's review
1.0
Argh - if you're going to go to all this trouble to write a book, take time to write an actual ending and not one of those "figure it out on your own" dealios.
The book is broken off in four sections - each narrated by a different character. The different narrators were distracting - the book felt like a group of loosely strung together events.
It bothered me that Bella, the Hopi girl, was such a stereotype of the "wise Native American." She was raised in Las Vegas - I don't think she had that much time to learn how to be one with nature.
And the ending (or lack thereof)...I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room.
The book is broken off in four sections - each narrated by a different character. The different narrators were distracting - the book felt like a group of loosely strung together events.
It bothered me that Bella, the Hopi girl, was such a stereotype of the "wise Native American." She was raised in Las Vegas - I don't think she had that much time to learn how to be one with nature.
And the ending (or lack thereof)...I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room.
eljabo's review against another edition
1.0
Argh - if you're going to go to all this trouble to write a book, take time to write an actual ending and not one of those "figure it out on your own" dealios.
The book is broken off in four sections - each narrated by a different character. The different narrators were distracting - the book felt like a group of loosely strung together events.
It bothered me that Bella, the Hopi girl, was such a stereotype of the "wise Native American." She was raised in Las Vegas - I don't think she had that much time to learn how to be one with nature.
And the ending (or lack thereof)...I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room.
The book is broken off in four sections - each narrated by a different character. The different narrators were distracting - the book felt like a group of loosely strung together events.
It bothered me that Bella, the Hopi girl, was such a stereotype of the "wise Native American." She was raised in Las Vegas - I don't think she had that much time to learn how to be one with nature.
And the ending (or lack thereof)...I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room.
peonylantern's review
1.0
I've enjoyed several of Pete Hautman's books. This was not one of them. None of the characters interested me at all. The story line (flu epidemic, survivor, frontier themes) was of some interest, but give me people to care about and I will love the book.
kaikamahine's review
4.0
Published on the cusp of the new dystopian trend in YA fiction, Hole in the Sky terrified me as a sixth grader. (I'd also rather inexpertly stolen the book from my school's Scholastic display -- ironically, it's the residual guilt and terror that made reading it so overwhelming.) I'm itching to reread it and see if it's as good as I remember, that eerie post-epidemic world.
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