Ron Tanner

For starters, I like dystopian novels so much better than utopian novels. I lucked into this one as a free Kindle download, which I read almost entirely on my phone (I just got a Kindle last week and read part of it on there, but finished it on my phone). This was a great novel for the infrequent reading I do on my phone - mainly while I'm waiting and only when I've forgotten to bring the book I'm reading. With other books I've tried to read that way, I've found that I forget the characters show more or the plot, and that wasn't the case this time. This story is memorable. I loved the illustrations and the characters. The story mainly concerns a mother and her large family of children, who are funny in the way children who are not watched over constantly can be, going a little astray, but nothing disastrous. In the war-torn setting of this novel, there is much danger, but many of the societal norms are gone, so in some ways it seems like an easier world to live in. show less