Those That Wake
New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They’ve never met. Seemingly, they never will. But on the same day Mal learns his...
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New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They’ve never met. Seemingly, they never will. But on the same day Mal learns his brother has disappeared, Laura discovers her parents have forgotten her. Both begin a search for their families that leads them to the same truth: someone or something has wiped the teens from the memories of every person they have ever known. Thrown together, Mal and Laura must find common ground as they attempt to reclaim their pasts.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780547553115 (0547553110)
ASIN: 0547553110
Publish date: 2011-03-21
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Set in a New York of the near future and people are mostly oblivious of each other and the world around them. Instead they choose technology as a constant companion. Cell phones in particular have become essential in their day-to-day existence. Electronic devices have replaced human interaction and ...
This book reads a bit like if you mixed up the implausible science of the television show "Fringe" with the odd scenarios that only kinda-sorta of make logical sense in the television show "Doctor Who". The book was interesting enough to sit down and read in only a couple of sittings. However, when ...
Okay... so I'll admit that by the title ALONE- I kind of just assumed that this was a zombie book. Yeah, that'll teach to actually read the synopsis first right? Any-non-zombiebook... I figured out this was a dystopian straight away. Which totally isn't a problem, because I LOVE dystopian! I'm going...
i think what i like best about the dystopian genre is probably that, despite the fact that some of the premises of these novels are far-fetched and impropable, there's still that remote possibility that our existence as we know it could somehow evolve into the worlds of these books. yeah, most of th...
Got to page 230 and had to give up. Wasn't for me.
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