Days Like This
She has to escape.But who else is out there?And can anyone survive days like this?I want to go back to the days when life made sense. The days before our parents became strange; before the warming ate away at all the living things in the world; before The Committee and their Blacktroopers. ...
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She has to escape.But who else is out there?And can anyone survive days like this?I want to go back to the days when life made sense. The days before our parents became strange; before the warming ate away at all the living things in the world; before The Committee and their Blacktroopers. Before the Wall.Lily is a prisoner in her own home. Forced to stay inside by The Committee and guarded by their increasingly distant parents, Lily and her brother Daniel are beginning to ask why. Then, when Daniel disappears just before his seventeenth birthday, Lily knows she is next.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00APDOE1S
Publish date: July 27th 2011
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Since I read to the 100 page mark, I rated this book. The book does way too much telling, the logic behind the world building doesn't make much sense AND it was way too preachy. It was the preachiness that stopped me. oh yeah... forgot to mention one of my other pet peeves came through this book.......
What makes books more interesting for the readers is when it has a setting close to home. What made me want to read Days Like This was that it was set in Sydney, but a very different and changed Sydney than that which we know of today. No matter if it was set in Perth or some unknown shanty town in ...
2.5 stars. (This book was a solid 2 star read for me, until the final third, when I found the story became much more engaging.)This is a difficult review to write (and a difficult rating to give), because I wanted to love this book. So badly. I think I went into this novel expecting some kind of awe...
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