I think the thing that made this novel so realistic to me was that the kids were still kids, at least in Settler's Landing.
The children in the village still attend school, still play baseball, still pull pranks on each other. I think when faced with such hardships, human beings will always fall back on what they're accustomed to. And since the adults in this novel were all young adults themselves when the plague hit, they want their children to have that same sense of normalcy, no matter how short-lived it may be.
Kudos to Mr. I don't like to envision that our great nation could end up torn asunder in the manner of his book, but I'm glad to think that if it does, we'll still all be red-blooded Americans at heart if it comes to that.
But the actual story is more like the aftermath of an insinuated plague, involving a fifteen year old boy roaming alongside his father and grandfather as scavengers, until some difficult circumstances come to pass. So there's a bit of false advertisement in the title, because it's more about the people living in the aftermath of the plague.
I decided to give this a read anyway, since it's my kind of genre. I really wanted to love this book, but sadly it wasn't to be. Don't get me wrong, it's well-written in spurts, and I finished it in an afternoon, but sadly it felt very lacking when juxtaposed to books in its same genre, alongside some progressions which I found difficult to believe in the world that was built.
I loved the audiobook narration by Dan Bittner, but it was difficult to maintain interest in some measures when the story shifted from survival, to love story, to political rises without a lot of depth. It seemed like it could've been developed a bit more. The story centers on Stephen Quinn, a boy making his way through civilization with his father and Grandfather.
His grandfather passes and changes the survival dynamic between Stephen and his father considering their grandfather ruled their actions with an iron fist. Stephen's father decides to help two captured civilians, but all heck breaks loose, leading to his father becoming severely injured and Stephen seeking refuge for the both of them in a civilized colony that seems peaceful, but Stephen doesn't trust it.
Still, he tries to integrate himself in the society. The story somewhat drags its feet after the initial events, and there are some actions that Stephen takes that I don't think add up in plausibility to cause the rift that occurs towards the end of the work. In some moments, I see myself following Stephen in his struggles to fit in with the society, but there are other times when I want to throttle him for being so passive and quick to go along with what seem to be very unwise decisions.
Still, there are moments here that are well-written, but needed fleshing out in order to give it more weight. I'd be willing to see what else Jeff Hirsch writes in the future, but unfortunately this didn't quite tug at my heartstrings and interest enough to stick with me.
After reading this book here is a list of things I'm not sure this author understands: guns baseball dialogue teenage angst love age marriage Christianity fire weather time forests figurative language casinos antagonists shovels Brave New World This book read more like a bad episode of Little House on the Prairie you know, the episodes when they stopped following the books. The most interesting characters were dead and in a coma the entire time. The love story was totally forced, the characters completely hollow, and it didn't make any sense.
I have no idea who these characters are, how old they are, or anything else. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? This story takes place in a post-apocalypse America. The main character is a young man, probably in his middle teens , who has lived a hard life, with a hard and mistrustful grandpa.
When the Grandpa dies, he and his injured father take shelter with a community of settlers who are trying to re-build their lives. We watch Steve grow from a selfish, hard-hearted, thieving boy into a social, responsible young man, who learns to fin in with, and help his community.
It is a good example of how the human spirit can rise triumphant, even from the worst disaster. There are some sleezeballs in the book, but good is victorious. Dan Bittner has a voice, and narrative style that depicts the teenager very well.
If you could sum up The Eleventh Plague in three words, what would they be? What was one of the most memorable moments of The Eleventh Plague? What does Dan Bittner bring to the story that you wouldn??? If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? What our future might be Any additional comments? Although there were a few hokey dialogs, the story was intriguing.
I thought the title was misleading because the plague itself is not a main element of the story; it is the aftermath that froms the basis of the story. I would have liked the story to be a bit longer; therre were many areas I would have loved to have seen developed a bit more.
Nonetheless, I really enjoyed the book. Standard dystopian fare with good narrator and production values. It is definitely written for a younger crowd. This is a good story. It will keep you listening as it has some exciting parts. I started to read this book when I was a freshman in highschool to meet the required pages for a class, but to never actually read anything past the first chapter.
However, four years have past and I still remembered everything I read about the book back then, and I had a free book to choose from on this app. I decided to go with this because even if it's been 4 years almost 5 I still had to finish something I started, it's just how I am, and I'm so glad and happy to have finally after all this time to finish the book. I'm just sad it took this long and that's it's actually over.
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