Style change For me, I found the style of writing changed, and maybe not for the better. DuPrau seems to aim for an older audience with this book, rather than the younger more adventurous approach she used with the previous two books. I have already read the fourth book, and I believe this book shou...
Answers some questions I had leftover after finishing The City of Ember (mostly why did people build a huge underground city and how long did it take them). I think I enjoyed it more the first time around. This time, the story didn't capture me and I ended up skimming a lot of it. ETA: If you name...
I was really curious to see how this would link up to City of Ember and People of Sparks. The direct connection is slight--the protagonist does eventually end up in Ember, but only in the Epilogue. The novel still snugly fits in with the series nevertheless, because of its themes.DuPrau doesn't shy ...
I'm afraid to say that I can't quite find a point for this book. Nothing all that much happens - there's the promise of a struggle against an archetypical fundamentalist, there's the promise of Armageddon, there's even apparently a guy who has a map of the known universe inside his house... but non...
This third book of the Ember series is actually a prequel. Nickie Randolph has temporarily moved to Yonwood, North Carolina, to help her aunt get their ancestor's house ready to put on the market. Finding a girl and a dog in an upstairs closet is just the first strange thing Nickie discovers about t...
The third volume in the Ember series is a prequel, though nominally so: We learn at the end what protagonist Nickie's relationship is to Ember, and the terms for Lina's visions of the magnificent city are set by the Prophet's vision and subsequent speculations about nearby parallel universes. Other ...
I don't get the rampant hatred for this book. Sure, it has very little to do with the other Books of Ember, but on its own it is a perfectly enjoyable story. Although I do think it would've been for the best if the author had not tied it into the series with the tacked-on final chapter, I guess it h...
I finally read it and because of bad reviews I did not expect to like it. I liked it better than the People of Sparks (book 2 in the series). It was amazing to see how one person's warped sense of what is "right" and "good" can effect an entire town until nothing is really right or good.
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