This was a great book! The story was interesting, it's about a group of kids who take shelter in a superstore. A huge volcanic eruption triggered monster waves and floods the east. In Colorado, where the kids in the store are, huge pieces of hail rain down. The kids, going to school, find themselves...
I bloody love survivalist fiction, and I really don't read enough of it. I'm not talking about your generic post-apocalyptic/dystopian survival novels, I mean the full on we-are-trapped-in-this-situation-and-we-are-going-to-use-every-ingenious-method-at-our-disposal-to-survive kind of fiction.My lo...
This review and others are posted at Read, Rinse, Repeat.2.5 starsMonument 14 is a decent entry in the glut of YA post-apocalyptic novels. It starts off with a monster of a hailstorm that results in the quite graphic deaths of a number of kids on a school bus. The survivors - 14 kids and one adult...
I found the premise for this book so exciting and couldn't wait to read it. I also think the cover is great (I judge books by their cover) and think it really stands out on the shelves so kids should definitely be checking this book out over the rest of the books on the shelf. The first thing that c...
With survival type stories, I’m either here or there, they either win me over completely (This is Not a Test) or annoy me to death. Monument 14 kind of fell in the middle, there were parts which were riveting and had me on tenterhooks and there were others which felt a little flat.Monument 14 starts...
Monument 14 is narrated in the first person by Dean Grieder. We begin with a journey to school. Dean is thinking about rummaging for old electronics after school and we know there is a gas shortage. We move straight into the action with huge hailstones raining down on them, causing damage to the ...
Full review on Books of AmberMonument 14 has an interesting premise. There's a series of natural disasters which set off a whole chain of events, and eventually cause toxic waste to be released into the air. I really like post-apocalyptic stuff, and I was looking forward to this one because I though...
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