A boy fighting for his life as a gladiator. A girl whose voice can ignite the fire of revolution. And the desperate hope of overthrowing the regime before it's too late ...
Helen and Miles live in a strict girls' boarding school, which she allowed to leave only once every few months to your comforter inside, Women from the surrounding village to visit. To prevent the girl on a flight from the unpleasant boarding school, is always determined a girl who is locked in the dungeon, if someone will not return again. even more shocked is Helen, as Milena after a trip to her comforter not return. She soon learns of the boy Milos, who will, as they held prisoner in a boarding school, the cruel truth:
They are held on purpose of the phalanx in the boarding schools because their parents were rebels against the regime; and especially Milena's mother and her enchanting singing voice played an important role. Helen and Milos decide to escape together and find Milena. But with her flight begins a bloody hunting, is captured in Milos and is forced by the phalanx to participate in the cruel winter games. To survive, will remain there Milos only one choice: to kill yourself ...
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My opinion
A brutal regime that prevents a pleasure gladiator fights, and courageous young people taking up the fight against them. What will my heart jugenddystopieverliebtes more :-)
actually delivers the Book everything you could want: a very compelling story, a thrilling universe in which people are oppressed, a little tender love story and many great characters that you care about.
The e norme potential of the story has been exhausted, the author in my opinion, but unfortunately not completely. What made me, for example, rankled was that one about the motivation of the phalanx little experiences, that there was a violent coup, is clear, but why the phalanx could ever taking control of themselves and what they are doing to the people exactly, remains unclear. This idea seemed to me a little worked half-heartedly.
Nevertheless, wrote the story very interesting and boring at any time. Mourlevat creates many interesting characters with whom one can identify, can, however, not much time for their development. Really bad I take him but not because so much happened in the book that you almost did not happen to stop. However, I would have wished from time to time a little more depth, what with the rapid pace of the narrative and perhaps also because it is a youth book, sometimes stayed on the track.
I have to praise Mourlevat Writing style or the successful translation from French. Through the chapters change in perspective between Helen, Milos and the other characters and the simple language, reads the book away so easily that I sometimes have frightened that already 50 pages are flown past me :-) And the unavoidable brutal scenes are somehow written in a way that, while sympathy for, but not terribly disgusted
My conclusion. If a sweeping youth book on the struggle against oppression by a brutal regime and seeks to overlook small weaknesses can be entertained with this book.
Paperback: 416 pages Publisher
: cbt (9 November 2010)
ISBN-10: 3570304558
Price : 12,99 €
Thanks to Ms. Goering and the cbt-Verlag for sending the review copy!
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