The Dead of the Night (1995)

This story was harder, emotionally, to read than Tomorrow, the Day the War Began. I think because you begin to feel what the characters are feeling...weary, discouraged, uncertain of any kind of future. But continuing the journey of Ellie and her companions is a must, so I will eagerly move on to the next book in this series and hope that eventually the world begins to make more sense for these brave young souls. ( )

My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )

Recently I read Tomorrow When the War Began because I missed out on reading it when I was a teenager. Which left the story unfinished and I felt I wanted to know what was going to happen. So I’ve now completed book 2; The Dead of the Night. I actually preferred this book over the first, the innocence of the kids is now gone, while still having to struggle against the enemy that now have to struggle with sexual desire too (actually I don’t think the struggled they just ‘hopped on’…so to speak). The main protagonist Ellie has ended up killing a man and there is the remorse going on in her head while everyone else seems to think she would be ok killing again. All in all I think it was a darker novel and that is what I enjoyed most about it. ( )

see http://www.sfsite.com/12b/tom47.htm ( )

It has a lot of action in it. It’s funny at times but it’s just really cool with the setting and what has happened. I read this book because it looked book and was about war.