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Loading... Arena One: Slaverunnersby Morgan Rice
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  worddragon | Mar 2, 2022 |   Jammer dat ook dit boek vol staat met storende taalfouten, net als andere Both die ik van deze schrijver gelezen heb. De vertalingen zijn dermate storend dat ik de volgende delen in het Engels ga proberen te krijgen Het grootste deel van het boek gaat over een, onmogelijke, autorit op hoge snelheid, die bestaat uit het verongelukken, bewusteloos raken, opnieuw een autorit, tot bijna aan het einde, waar nog gauw eventjes een einde gemaakt moest worden. De hoofdpersoon, Brooke, zou al vele malen gestorven moeten zijn, maar nee, ze komt, bijna, onbeschadigd te voorschijn uit al deze ongelukken. Dit e-boek was gratis, anders zou het echt een verspilling van geld zijn geweest. En van papier. (  ) EdwinKort | Oct 18, 2019 |  ) magickislife | Nov 20, 2018 |  )1  LilyRoseShadowlyn | Sep 10, 2016 | The point of being a fiction book is that you believe in what you want. I enjoyed the book very much. The plot is interesting and even if winning all battles against all odds is not a realistic scenario, just cheer up for our heroine and let her success be contagious. I recommend this book for all readers that have a strong heart and an imagination that can accommodate an invincible heroine. They will be entertained for hours! ( ) rmattos | Jan 23, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: "Shades of THE HUNGER GAMES permeate a story centered around two courageous teens determined to buck all odds in an effort to regain their loved ones. But the true strength in any story lies not so much in its setting and events as in how the characters come across, come alive, and handle their livesâ??and it's here that ARENA ONE begins to diverge from the predictable and enters the more compelling realms of believability and strength....ARENA ONE builds a believable, involving world and is recommended....for those who enjoy dystopian novels, powerful female characters, and stories of uncommon courage." The #1 Bestseller! New York. 2120. America has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever. Deep in the wilderness, high up in the Catskill Mountains, 17 year old Brooke Moore manages to survive, hiding out with her younger sister, Bree. They are careful to avoid the gangs of slaverunners who patrol the countryside. But one day, Brooke is not as careful as she can be, and Bree is captured. The slaverunners take her away, heading to the city, and to what will be a certain death. Brooke, a Marine's daughter, was raised to be tough, to never back down from a fight. When her sister is taken, Brooke mobilizes, uses everything at her disposal to chase down the slaverunners and get her sister back. Along the way she runs into Ben, 17, another survivor like her, whose brother was taken. Together, they team up on their rescue mission. What follows is a post-apocalyptic, action-packed thriller, as the two of them pursue the slaverunners on the most dangerous ride of their lives, following them deep into the heart of New York. Along the way, if they are to survive, they will have to make some of the hardest choices and sacrifices of their lives, encountering obstacles neither of them had expectedâ??including their unexpected feelings for each other. Will they rescue their siblings? Will they make it back? And will they, themselves, have to fight in the arena? "Grabbed my attention from the beginning and did not let go....This story is an amazing adventure that is fast paced and action packed from the very beginning. There is not a dull moment to be found." "I will admit, before ARENA ONE, I had never read anything post-apocalyptic before. I never thought it would be something I would enjoy....Well, I was very pleasantly surprised at how addicting this book was. ARENA ONE was one of those books that you read late into the night until your eyes start to cross because you don't want to put it down....It is no secret that I love strong heroines in the books I read....Brooke was tough, strong, un-relentless, and while there is romance in the book, Brooke wasn't ruled by that....I would highly recommend ARENA ONE." ARENA ONE is Book #1 in the Survival Trilogy, and is 85,000 words. Book #2 in the series, ARENA TWO, is now also No library descriptions found. 
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First off, Brooke has to be one of the dumbest survivors I've ever read about. Her and her sister are starving and there's a clearing just up a hill that they've never bothered to explore. They've been in that house for years and not even during the summer have they explored? Whatever. Not to mention that whole business about not making fires. Set up a simple alarm system to warn you if anyone is coming down the road and then make a small fire. It doesn't have to be the size of your house you know.
Honestly, the first third of the book just pissed me off. There were so many things she could have done to make surviving in the mountains so much easier for herself and her sister and yet she didn't. Even finding or making a shelter that wasn't directly in the wind patterns would have been nice.
The writing was also pretty bad. So many times, Brooke talked about how she knew x but did y instead. No. In first person writing, you don't have that fallback. Maybe once or twice. Maybe. Not every other paragraph like this.
A minor thing I hated was the meal she got before heading into the arena. Eating that much rich food that fast, especially if you were as malnourished as Brooke claimed to be,would cause major health problems. And then, the whole last scene on the boat would put all of their metabolisms out of sync (except maybe Logan).
Everything else was okay. Brooke seemed to get over her compunctions about murder pretty quickly, and neither of the two school buses of innocent girls she killed bothered her but whatever. I can tell this is shaping up to be a love triangle which I hate. Ben was essentially useless after he went to find his brother (who I don't think even got a name) so he might as well have died. Plus, no, Brooke did NOT owe him anything for helping her and Bree with food that first winter. It came off as very skeezy. No idea what Logan's motivations are, but he seems to be a typical action dude with a fridged girl in his past. Oh, that reminds me, hello Mrs. Everdeen! I'm not kidding. After her husband is dead/never coming back, she sits in a chair and does nothing, causing the older sister to resent her and take on a parenting role to the younger sister. I guess in that way this book is the Hunger Games, with the plot of Taken shoved into the last few chapters.
Basically, this is a poor imitation riding on the coattails of the Hunger Games. Just read the dang originals - you won't miss anything here. (