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Werk-InformationenFeral Creatures von Kira Jane Buxton
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ST remains one of the greatest characters to be created -- he is just as funny in this one. Any fans of Hollow Kingdom will not be disappointed in this new adventure. This is a super fun read! ( ) This review contains spoilers. **** This book carries on where Hollow Kingdom left off. Humanity (or as our crow narrator S.T. would call us, MoFos) has been irrevocably altered by a pandemic in which technology turned everyone into mindless zombies. Everyone, that is, except Dee, whom S.T. raises from babyhood to teenagerdom with the help of other wildlife. But it’s a dangerous world out there, and yet Dee wants to explore it. What’s a crow-dad to do? I’m not sure that this sequel was strictly necessary, and it took me a while to get into. I had to borrow it multiple times from the library before I finally got into it, but it did pick up quite a bit at the end. It is certainly worth a borrow if you liked the first book, but I wouldn’t consider it mandatory. On a side note, I found it utterly creepy that the Changed Ones (the former humans) were pursuing Dee for reproductive reasons. Repopulating the world with humans is THE WORST part of postapocalyptic scenarios, because you just know that the people who think they’re entitled to reproduce after that are precisely the people who should NOT reproduce because they are arrogant or dangerous or assholes. I’m always a bit skittish about reading dystopian or postapocalyptic fiction for this reason. Fortunately, nothing happens to Dee in this book. This wasn't nearly as good as The Hollow Kingdom, but it was still a fun read. ST the crow is raising the only human left on Earth after a weird disease has made all humans evolve into zombie-like monsters. He has to keep her safe from animals who want to harm her in revenge for what humans did to Earth, as well as from zombie humans. Along the way, he gets help from a lot of other animals and learns some lessons about nature. Like the first book, this one is hilarious, and full of some surprisingly poignant writing about nature. It doesn't have any of the fresh surprises of the first book, though, and it can be a little tedious because the plot revolves around Dee not listening to ST, ST not trusting anybody, and everything turning out okay despite ST's constant worrying. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator deserves a while pile of awards for all the different animal voices he does. The narration is amazing. While Buxton's writing is still laugh out loud funny in places, too much of this story is a repetitive pattern (S.T. yelling at Dee, Dee running off and getting in troublt, S.T. anxiously yelling at Dee, Dee getting herself out of trouble) and the listing of different species and subspecies is even more prevalent than in the first book. I found this a chore to get through. Shit Turd as an anxious helicopter parent wasn't appealing, nor was the fight against bigger badder zombie ex-MoFos. What was the point of eliminating MoFos if they just get supercharged in their destructiveness. There were some delightful passages, but those were short temporary respites.
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HTML:In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero"is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald). Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T. . . . When the world last checked-in with its favorite Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry beasts, and nature had started re-claiming her territory from humankind. S.T., the intrepid crow, alongside his bloodhound-bestie Dennis, had set about saving pets that had become trapped in their homes after humanity went the way of the dodo. That is, dear reader, until S.T. stumbled upon something so rareâ??and so preciousâ??that he vowed to do everything in his power to safeguard what could, quite literally, be humanity's last hope for survival. But in a wild world plagued by prejudiced animals, feather-raising environments, new threats so terrifying they make zombies look like baby bunnies, and a horrendous dearth of cheesy snacks, what's a crow to do? Why, wing it on another big-hearted, death-defying adventure, that's what! Joined by a fabulous new cast of animal characters, S.T. faces many new challenges plus his biggest one yet: paren Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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