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Loading... Planet Urth: The Savage Lands (Books 1 & 2) (Volume 1)by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci (Author), Jennifer Martucci (Author)
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More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen. Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror. After fleeing the only refuge she's known for much of her life, Avery, along with her sister June and new friends, Will, Oliver and Riley forge through the forest to uncharted territory in search of a better life, in search of other survivors. But Avery soon learns that life beyond the woods is far worse than she ever imagined. She finds that safety does not exist for human beings in a world run by Urthmen. Hope seems futile.But Avery refuses to surrender hope and chooses, instead, to push forward and move her group into the heart of danger, to seek out more humans. Will she and the others survive their journey into the savage lands of Planet Urth? Find out in this heart pumping second installment of the Planet Urth series. No library descriptions found. |
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These two novels had no ending. After the end of the first novel, I felt I had reached the middle of a novel that actually had a plot. Good thing this was a box set so I could keep reading. Well, book two just went nowhere, and I mean nowhere. No solid story at all. The characters were leaving because of the Lurkers. But they had no idea where they were going. They just walked right out onto the streets where the savage Urthmen lived. What?! Why?! Bangs head on wall.
Book two was pointless. Book one had merit.
The novel is told in first person by Avery, the main character. Her thoughts are too redundant. As soon as you get the emotion of the character, several paragraphs down, a page later, or even a chapter later, she is rehashing the same things, in the same words. The novel could have been told in half as many words.
The first novel typically began most scenes with the character waking and ended them with her falling asleep. Blackouts where common too.
The romantic interest was the only thing that kept me reading, and the main character screwed that up as well. I don't understand the romantic issue that developed between Avery and Will in the second novel. One moment the scene was sparking with electricity and then the next, the characters are mad at each other. I reread like three times and determined that another paragraph needs to be written for clarity, because I had no idea what happened. They just roll away pissed with each other.
I did like Avery's childish mindset. Keep in mind she grew up with no other contact with humans except her dad and sister. So her immaturity and naivety were spot on. Sometimes she didn't realize danger when she should have, even though most of the novel she was paranoid of the dangers around where she lived. Her reaction to finally seeing Will and his family was priceless.
The novel needed a good read through to pick up the plentiful typos. Seriously, if the novel was read aloud, wrong words and missing words would have been found. Urthmen was spelled Urtmen and Urthnmen too. Groan.
Reader rated for ages 14 for mild violence. Heads get smashed in a lot. (