I'd read Tatiana's review so I should have been well prepared.
In all fairness, I had plenty of warning. I sincerely hope that people reading this book will start focusing on the beauty of the story-the prose, the characters, the structure which is at once remarkably simplistic and stunningly complex-and stop focusing on details which are not entirely pertinent to the story at large.more Finally, a book which reads as if the narrator is actually recalling events, rather than the artificially produced recollection of events and conversations, verbatim, which we have grown so used to. The prose is insightful and puzzling, but necessary given the circumstances of the novel. This is a novel about people and our determination to survive even in the face of hopelessness. Meg Rosoff has a unique gift of just giving the reader the bare bones of a story-that is to say, no surnames are given, little background about the characters is revealed in depth, the enemy is referred to solely as just that, "The Enemy"-and still making a profound impact. It's a novel about how people change when faced with hardship and how people can come together in the oddest of ways. That's the only real downfall of "How I live Now"-unfortunately, Meg Rosoff seemed to target her book towards an audience too immature to realize that this novel is a novel about SURVIVAL. It troubles me greatly that so many readers can't see past the unconventional relationship between our protagonist and her cousin, because it so wholly isn't what the book is about.
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It's a novel ab I spent a while considering how I would rate this book, but finally decided on a full 5/5 rating, and here's why: I spent a while considering how I would rate this book, but finally decided on a full 5/5 rating, and here's why: It troubles me greatly that so many readers can't see past the unconventional relationship between our protagonist and her cousin, because it so wholly isn't what the book is about. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.Ī riveting and astonishing story.more Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy's uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.Īs power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. As power fails, and systems fai "Every war has turning points and every person too."įifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister.
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