Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
My rating: 5/5 cats
aussie teens are no joke. if they ever decide to band up and take over new york, we should be very afraid. these kids know how to mobilize and all that outback tends to athleticize a body. our chubby doritos-eating teens do not stand a chance. but i would totally read that book.
i truly love teen survival tales, and this one scratched my itch, and there are SIX MORE BOOKS!! i mean, hells yeah! that is a lot of surviving! american survival stories tend to only go trilogy. oh, you hardy aussies, you can go for seven!
fortress should have prepared me that their country’s children are made of flint and steel and endurance. did you know it gets to be 120 degrees in australia? last week it was 80 here and i almost murdered the sun. with my bare hands. and no one was even trying to kill me – if i had been expected to forage for food or build a shelter, i would have probably surrendered to the first person offering me an ice cube.
but these kids – they come back from their camping trip to find the entire town held captive and soldiers on the streets and houses bombed and low-flying jets everywhere. and they take care of business. some will fall in love, some will get shot, some will blow shit up…they are practical and resourceful teens, farm kids mostly, so not too squeamish, and they just…take care of business. and they aren’t even vampires! there are some unfortunate things that happen to animals. apart from that – i am looking forward to finishing this series (even the elusive number six) this summer.
