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Hirsch was trying to portray a very insular community where freedoms were restricted in order to ensure social cohesion, but the stakes never seemed that high. Books don’t need constant action to be interesting, but they must have some believable tension. The main problem with The Eleventh Plague is that it is boring. However, this isolated village is not as perfect as it seems, and Stephen begins to wonder if he’d be safer on his own.
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He joins up with group of strangers who take him to a hidden town that has managed to maintain some semblance of order and safety.
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At the start of the novel, Stephen must suddenly fend for himself after his grandfather dies and his father is badly injured during an accident. The Eleventh Plague is about a world destroyed, not surprisingly, by plague, and the remaining people are scavengers just trying to survive. It was a bit repetitive, mostly via Ringer, but I have high hopes for book number three, whenever I have time to get around to that one.My “what I’ve read” versus “what I’ve written about” piles are completely out of balance again, so it’s time for another RRR (rapid response review)! Today’s theme comes from one of my current literary obsessions: YA dystopias. I gave this four out of five stars because I was tearing through the pages, desperate to find out what happens, but the writing was definitely lacking in this one. At the end of The Infinite Sea he seemed to be one of the good guys, but personally I hope that turns out to be another fake-out. I liked Razor too, and I like that Yancey kind of pulled us back and forth wondering if he was good or evil. He was written absolutely flawlessly in my opinion, and I will miss him greatly in The Last Star.
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His background was honestly so heartbreaking, and his final moments made me sad in all the right ways. Poundcake was my favorite character in this one. I feel like a lot of books have these crazy plots that are fun and interesting to read about but actually make no sense, but at least it seems like we’re going to figure out a concrete reason for all of this. I’m glad Yancey isn’t ignoring the obvious question of why the aliens or whoever are doing all this. It sounded like now they’re questioning whether or not there actually are aliens, which is interesting but dumb if it’s true. It just makes her obnoxious and exhausting to read about.Īs for the plot, I don’t think I even understand what happened. I don’t think that attitude makes her cool or interesting as a person or a character. I don’t like people who think they’re better than everyone else. It’s not that easy to never smile, or maybe that’s just me because I’m compulsively polite, but either way it was irritating. The character I really didn’t like was Ringer. I didn’t not like him in The Infinite Sea, although I didn’t actively like him either. I don’t particularly remember feeling this way, but I believe it. I finished this book a week ago, so I’m going to do my best to remember my feelings on it.Īccording to my review of The 5th Wave, I do not like Evan. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. Goodreads synopsis: How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible.