vanishing ozone layer is too dangerous formonths of the year so people live indoors, Computer games are the main entertainment for the teenage population,
Yawn. This was a terrible book, The idea was good, having people stuck indoors and in tunnels, hoping for a better way of life, but the story was so poorly executed, The kids we meet are the most boring, uninspiring people you can imagine, Their conversation is pointless, the plot is non existent, no character development and nothing happens! I was left scratching my head as to how this rubbish ever found a publisher!
Loved the premise but found it was executed somewhat poorly.
Really wanted to enjoy this book but found it difficult to read ended up forcing myself to finish it just to see how it ended, A clumsy read, and very unclear too, The setting was great but I couldn't connect with the characters or really distinguish between them at all, I feel like the ending was really good but I didn't get it because by the time I got there i was tired of reading the book and just wanted to give up and switch to a different book.
Just not my cup of tea, Gave up a quarter of the way in, This was a quick read but it wasn't a good one,
This is a book set in the future where we can't go outside for most of the year, due to harmful UV Rays as we no longer have an ozone layer.
So kids spend most of their time indoors playing computer games,
The main character is Violet who can see into the future although this is only touched upon and never really explained, She has decided she should be able to go outside, despite all the harmful stuff, So she does, she betrays her dad who works at the company which provides protective screens,
And then I'm not really even sure if any of it happened because they might have been playing a game, WHAT THE HELL! And her dad now makes parasols so everyone can go outside again, Well that ties that up nicely,
It was just weird, It was all so disconnecting, She didn't have a real relationship with her friends or her parents, You think the adviser she meets will be a main part of the story but she's not, It was boring, I read it all but I didn't enjoy it, Young adult book about a world in the near future where it is only safe to venture outside for a short time each year due to the depletion of the ozone layer.
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two books I've read by this author now, and I've given both of them three, I was more impressed by this one than the other Maphead, but there are some flaws here that can't be ignored and, judging by the other reviews here, others feel the same.
The idea for the story is good, The author writes inventively and her descriptions of things are nice, The ending is okay.
The style of writing is such that it makes the book difficult to read, I know what the author is trying to do because I've probably done the same course as she has, but it doesn't quite come off, My writing sufferers from the same problem: it's challenging to keep track of who is saying what, which leads to me having to skip back to check, I and this author probably just need to make more use of 'he said', 'she said', which is onerous but makes the text more readable,
On top of that, the story is just a bit too woolly and confusing, I mean, I read it through in a couple of days, but I had to force myself,
And another thing: the author really needs to work on her blurb writing skills, The one for this book does not really match what the story is about, It's really a missed opportunity to promote the book, I buy on the basis of what I read on the back which kinda makes me wonder, now, why I bought this book,
Anyway, read it if you're obsessed with how the world will be if the sun heats up and blots out a lot of life, Avoid it if you're pedantic like me,
BluScreen is needed to block the harmful rays of the sun, Kids dont go out much anymore, they stay home playing cybergames, I found this book a bit confusing at some parts and didn't know what was going on or who some of the people were, I think it was too quickly ended towards the ending of the book and the ending I didn't really like, However it was a good read throughout and I got into it quite fast, good for a young adult class book, An interesting idea with the depletion of the ozone layer, the sun's radiation has become dangerous and people live in underground tunnels, spending most of their time in computer simulation games.
Unfortunately the story is confused intentionally, I think and most of the characters seem interchangeable, How was anyone to know that one day the sun would just burn up their lives Tunnels link home compounds to town and no one goes out any more, But Violet Niles is going outside, She thinks the only danger out there is the sun but Vi has no idea how dangerous reality can be, .
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