Winterkill
Where Emmeline lives, you cannot love and you cannot leave...The Council's rules are strict, but they're for the good of the settlement in which Emmeline lives. Everyone knows there is nothing but danger the other side of the Wall, and the community must prepare for the freezing winterkill that...
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Where Emmeline lives, you cannot love and you cannot leave...The Council's rules are strict, but they're for the good of the settlement in which Emmeline lives. Everyone knows there is nothing but danger the other side of the Wall, and the community must prepare for the freezing winterkill that comes every year.But Emmeline struggles to be obedient under the Council's suff
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780571313693 (0571313698)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Today We DidStrictly ruled by a group of council members, the settlement has been isolated and lost from other people for several generations. It is surrounded by tall walls from which guards watch the surrounding forest through the night, waiting for signs of the malmaci, a dangerous beast that som...
My feelings on this book are somewhat mixed. On the one hand, the good things I enjoyed about it was the writing was pretty good, the story telling was fairly captivating and it made quite a good page turner. But a lot of things bothered me. For starters, the setting. Unless I missed it, the...
Not bad but lacked a sense of time and place. Interesting while reading but it left me wanting more.
So I have not read this type of book in a while. I think that last civilization I read was “The Forest Of Hands & Teeth” where there was a civilization out in the middle of the woods, aren’t allowed to leave, etc. So I was pretty interested in what this story has to offer. Plot: This is about a gro...
If you've read any other reviews of Winterkill, you probably already know what movie this book is being compared to. I'll admit, I had the same thought originally. A hidden settlement in the middle of the forest. An unknown terror that lurks right on the fringes, terrifying the inhabitants into subm...
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