perelanirivana's review
3.0
It is a book full of adventure and unexpected thing! i really liked it. It was interesting and fun to read.
froggylibrarian1's review
4.0
This was a pretty intense story. Oskari is a Finnish boy and is about to turn 13. For his "initiation" he must go into the woods along with a traditional bow and bring back something. Up til now he has been a bit of a letdown and he can't even pull the bow string right before his trial. But everything changes when he witnesses some men blow Air Force 1 out of the sky. Oskari now has to find and rescue the President.
There was a lot of action. There was a bit of swearing but not so much that I would keep it out of the library.
I am glad I already have the book...maybe I can "sell" it a bit before the movie comes out and then in the fall if my students have seen it.
There was a lot of action. There was a bit of swearing but not so much that I would keep it out of the library.
I am glad I already have the book...maybe I can "sell" it a bit before the movie comes out and then in the fall if my students have seen it.
cristina0194's review
5.0
Well... I saw the movie two years ago and I had no idea there was a book! But a week ago, I found the book on a site and I placed the order. Today, after starting it, it was so hard to put it down... I really liked it. And even though the story was told from a 13 years old child, I didn’t feel it. It was mature and it had a lot of action (it seems like I’m craving for action lately). I really liked it! 👌
podcast_buecherreich's review against another edition
4.0
Actionreich und kurzweilig. Man fiebert mit dem unsicheren "Antihelden" Oskari mit, dass er den Präsidenten retten wird.
bethanymiller415's review
2.0
The word that comes to mind to sum up this book is generic. You would think that the setting, a remote village in the mountains of Finland, would add a unique twist to this action novel, but so little detail is given that the place of the novel just feels like a generic wilderness. The main character Oskari is a part of a tribe that has a coming of age ritual in which the boy must go out into the wilderness and kill something with the ceremonial bow. The animal that he kills is supposed to represent what kind of man he will become. Not much more detail is give about the Tribe and its rituals beyond that, so again it has the feeling of a generic version of a white person’s idea of what native people might do. Because Oskari is smaller and weaker than the other boys his age, no one (including his father) thinks that he will succeed in killing anything. However, Oskari stumbles upon something much bigger and more important than simple wildlife. He stumbles upon an escape pod containing the President of the United States! The President has been sold out by some of the people he trusts most in the world, and it’s up to Oskari to help him escape the vaguely Middle Eastern man who is now hunting him.
Though this novel is jam packed with action, I didn’t find it all that exciting. Action movie tropes abound, and the characters are all very two dimensional. Many of the plot twists strain credibility. From what I gather, this is a novelization of a movie that recently came out, so that could drum up some additional interest. Optional purchase where adventure and survival fiction is popular with the middle school crowd.
Though this novel is jam packed with action, I didn’t find it all that exciting. Action movie tropes abound, and the characters are all very two dimensional. Many of the plot twists strain credibility. From what I gather, this is a novelization of a movie that recently came out, so that could drum up some additional interest. Optional purchase where adventure and survival fiction is popular with the middle school crowd.
m_v_anita's review against another edition
4.0
Un libro muy entretenido y con una trama de lo más original. La película tiene que ser muy buena, había partes en las que parecía que estaba viendo la película, más que leer. Un libro de superación, confianza y supervivencia. Y por supuesto la ambientación en la preciosa Finlandia, detalle que me ha encantado.
dean_o's review
2.0
Meeeh.
Maybe I'm just too old or logical thinking for this book but come on...
As if the President would be that stupid, as if the kid could survive all this destruction, as if it would be so easy to plot against the White House. Yeah, no.
Also, where are the girls? Where are the women in this town? They surely haven't all died?
Well maybe they fled because of their stupid husbands, I would understand it.
Maybe I'm just too old or logical thinking for this book but come on...
As if the President would be that stupid, as if the kid could survive all this destruction, as if it would be so easy to plot against the White House. Yeah, no.
Also, where are the girls? Where are the women in this town? They surely haven't all died?
Well maybe they fled because of their stupid husbands, I would understand it.