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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Ashfall Not the Most Brilliant YA Dystopian, But Not Bad Either
2:25 PM
(Image from Barnes & Noble)
Like most YA dystopians, Ashfall by Mike Mullin paints a pretty bleak picture of humanity's hope of surviving a catastrophic ecological disaster. It's not just lack of food and water that will destroy us, according to such stories, but our own selfish, savage selves. In the world Mullin describes, it takes less than a month for humans to turn into wild, cannibalistic beasts. While that may be far-fetched (let's hope), it does make for an exciting, action-packed story. While Ashfall's not especially original or brilliant, it's definitely entertaining. With a fast-paced plot, interesting enough characters and some food-for-thought situations, it's a decent YA dystopian. Not the best and not my favorite, but not bad either.
(Readalikes: The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Last Survivors series [Life As We Knew It; The Dead & the Gone; This World We Live In] by Susan Beth Pfeffer; and a little like the Gone series [Gone; Hunger; Lies; Plague; Fear] by Michael Grant)
Grade: B-
If this were a movie, it would be rated: PG-13 for language (no F-bombs), violence and some sexual content (not graphic)
To the FTC, with love: Another library fine find
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Oh my gosh! I hope it takes more than a month for humans to go crazy but I doubt it. :( Scary!
ReplyDeleteI know, right? Personally, I think we'd last longer than a month. There's got to be at least a month's worth of food stored in people's houses and in the grocery stores. I know it would take more than 30 days for ME to get desperate enough to eat a dog or cat, let alone another human. *Shudders*
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