Genera: Survival-Contemporary
Subjects: Survival, suicidal depression, mountains.
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 259 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover
List Price: $17.99
Publisher: Penguin (Razorbill)
Summary/ product description: “Hatchet meets Lost
in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening
Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes black. Jane wakes up amidst piles of wreckage and charred bodies on a snowy mountaintop. There is only one other survivor: a boy named Paul, who inspires Jane to want to fight for her life for the first time.
Jane and Paul scale icy slopes and huddle together for warmth at night, forging an intense emotional bond. But the wilderness is a vast and lethal force, and only one of them will survive”
Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes black. Jane wakes up amidst piles of wreckage and charred bodies on a snowy mountaintop. There is only one other survivor: a boy named Paul, who inspires Jane to want to fight for her life for the first time.
Jane and Paul scale icy slopes and huddle together for warmth at night, forging an intense emotional bond. But the wilderness is a vast and lethal force, and only one of them will survive”
My Rating: êêê
My Review: This book was good, but it just felt too
short. It was a very quick read. It wasn’t dystopian or sci-fi. It was
survival. Like Bear Grylls’ Man vs. Wild, but will a suicidal teenage girl and
a snowboarder boy. I didn’t like Jane’s obsessive planning an attempt at
suicide, but I did like that once the plane crash she tried to stay alive. This
is a book with a good message and theme. There’s action and mountains and
blizzards. I recommend this to people who like survival stories. If you read and
like the following books: On A Dark Wing by Jordan Dane, which has
mountaineering in it, or This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers, which had a
suicidal girl surviving in it. If you like survival movies like Vertical Limit or
127 hours, you might like this. It’s great to find a non-sci-fi/paranormal/fantasy
book that I was able to enjoy. It just felt to short and kind of incomplete.
There should have been more Paul in it. There wasn’t much romance, sadly. It is
a stand-alone, just to clarify.
Cover Art Review: I love the colors, but there’s a
mistake in the title. The first V was improperly sliced. It was erased
incorrectly. I wonder if the designer noticed this. I doubt it was done on
purpose. Other than that, it’s good.
~Haley G
No comments:
Post a Comment