Author: John Marsden
Series: Tomorrow #2
Published: June 1st 2006 by Scholastic Paperbacks
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REVIEW:
A must read follow-up to a must read series. Book two in the TOMORROW series didn’t disappoint, in fact it sprung me into action, the moment it ended, to purchase book three. This has to be one of my favorite series, just the pure voice of Ellie in a world that has been completely destroyed makes for a compulsive read. If you haven’t read ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’ I highly recommend that you do so and maybe give the audiobook a go, because the narrator, Suzi Dougherty is brilliant.
‘The Dead of Night’ starts right where ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ left off. The group of five is neck deep in a war and there are now two that have been captured. The group is faced with the guilt of the lives they might have taken and the fact that as teenagers they are making some very detrimental decisions. Yet, relief might be right around the corner as the group stumbles upon what seems to be a large group of rebels, called Harvey’s Heroes. There is something odd about this large group of “heroes” though…
This one was all over the place, it just flew from one action scene to the next and sucked me deeper into the lives of the Aussie teens. It is action apocalypse at its finest.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Recommended for fans of young adult apocalypse novels. There are some heavier themes with violence and some sexual references so recommended for more mature teens, but there is nothing graphic that should turn off parents.
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I don’t think I have read many apocalypse books before and from your review it sounds as though I should start! x
Oooh I love apocalypse… it’s my thang
I’m loving seeing the Tomorrow series being read again! The first book was originally published in Australia in 1992, and I read the whole series when I was 14 or 15. Surprisingly, I even liked the movie of Tomorrow, When the War Began which was released a couple of years ago even though I was scared it would commercialize the book a little, it was done in a way that was pretty true to the written version.
John Marsden has written a lot of contemporary (well, contemporary 10+ years ago!) YA, which are some of the only contemp YA books I’ve truly enjoyed. It’s a shame they are incredibly hard to get hold of.
They are hard to get a hold of, especially in the US. I usually do the audio books because they were actually cheaper, the books just came down in price. Last time they weren’t available on kindle and the paperback was $20. Now the kindle version is under $9, so that is the good thing about the movie, which I actually purchased also — and really enjoyed it. Now, I’m interested in reading the Contemp YA
I’ve also got the audiobook versions because they were cheaper. Amazing how expensive the ebook versions but good to see them going down in price!
Letters From the Inside was probably my favourite contemp that he wrote – pretty gritty stuff.
It’s amazing what comes back so many years after reading something after someone mentions the name!
Sounds like I need to get more into apocalyptic type books.
Wow, I’d never heard of this book before. Just went and requested it from the library.