When I saw this sitting on the shelf at my husband’s library I was beside myself with excitement. You see, I had no idea that Marsden had written a new book about Ellie and her friends from the Tomorrow When the War Began series. This book is set after the war. The series had seven books in it and you’ll see if you look at my Bookshelf that I list one of them there. That’s because they are some of the best books I’ve ever read. The basic plot is not unlike the 80s movie Red Dawn–a country is suddenly invaded and teenagers fight back. Unlike the movie these books are awesome. Marsden is Australian and thus in these stories it is Australia which has been invaded by an enemy country. Throughout the seven books (which, by the way, came out first in Australia-I found myself ordering one of the books from amazon.uk because I couldn’t bear to wait for it to reach the U.S. market) Ellie and her friends Homer, Fi, and Lee become guerrilla soldiers fighting back against a cruel enemy. They are incredibly effective and experience true warfare. That is to say they kill people and some of their own comrades are killed, too. By the end of the series the war has ended. So I was pretty surprised to see this follow up book, though it makes perfect sense because one does wonder–the war is over, now what? Read the rest of this entry »
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