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A review by cornmaven
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
4.0
This is a the first of a series. I am torn about whether boys would like it. The story is very interesting - a bunch of HS kids in Australia go camping in the bush for a week, then come back to find everyone in the town and rural areas missing, with all of the shops in town looted and smashed. They finally figure out that they have been invaded and the town is being held at the campgrounds, where they had gone for a county fair-type thing. The kids have to decide whether to go back to the bush and stay there or fight. They kind of do both in this book, as they prepare their base camp, having to go into town for supplies and get information. I think they will continue to be the resistance movement in the subsequent books.
The reason I am torn is that the narrator is female and she spends more time than I think a boy would like on romantic things. She muses about the boys in the group, and her 'dates' with one of the boys. There's kissing, and suggestions of heavier petting. But all of the action is definitely exciting and boy oriented. Thus, I am torn. I am interested to see what the next book holds, if I get enough time to read it. I liked the writing - the narrator even muses about the nature and source of evil. Not a bad read.
Oh, and I liked the Aussie setting and the fact that the author used Aussie terms, and included a glossary, plus some of the details are based on fact.
The reason I am torn is that the narrator is female and she spends more time than I think a boy would like on romantic things. She muses about the boys in the group, and her 'dates' with one of the boys. There's kissing, and suggestions of heavier petting. But all of the action is definitely exciting and boy oriented. Thus, I am torn. I am interested to see what the next book holds, if I get enough time to read it. I liked the writing - the narrator even muses about the nature and source of evil. Not a bad read.
Oh, and I liked the Aussie setting and the fact that the author used Aussie terms, and included a glossary, plus some of the details are based on fact.