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The Young City von James Bow
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The Young City (2008. Auflage)

von James Bow

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Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they're finally heading off for university. They're thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults. But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary's brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It's a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they've only been pretending to be. As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they're really ready for a future together - and what they will do if they can't get back. Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.… (mehr)
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Titel:The Young City
Autoren:James Bow
Info:Toronto: Dundurn, (2008), Paperback, 259 pages.
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Tags:Canadian children, children's fantasy, children's fiction, young adult

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I don’t know about most people, but I for one find reading a series out of order to be completely frustrating and I usually can’t do it. But this time, I could and I am really glad I did. The Young City is one of those stories that once you start, it’s hard to stop. It’s the third book in a series, The Unwritten Books, but it completely holds its own as a standalone novel.

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister are eighteen, in love, and finally beginning their lives outside of their parents and are starting college, but something else has a different plan for them. While helping Rosemary’s brother, Theo, move into an apartment, the floor falls in and the couple is swept away into the storm sewer of underground Toronto. When they finally get out of the water and get out of the river, they find that they aren’t in 2008 Toronto anymore; they seem to have gone back in time 124 years, and are now in 1884 Toronto. WOW! Twilight Zone, here I come!

But this isn’t quite like that at all; this is a much simpler, much harder way to live. Could you imagine going from cell phones, computers, and television to a time where there is no hot running water, no such thing as a battery, and women are just being allowed to become doctors? I sure couldn’t, but that’s what Peter and Rosemary fall into. It’s hard for them to even survive in such a different time, even from the first minute, but they soon meet Faith and Edmund, a brother and sister who have a pawn shop and who eagerly take the couple in, and help them adjust, no matter how odd they appear to be.

Working together, Peter and Rosemary have to come to terms with where they are and how it seems they can never get back to their tie, their home. Days become weeks, and weeks become months, and the couple begins to doubt whether they are ready for a life together, especially if that life is being stuck in 1884. Faith and Edmund help, but it’s still not enough for the young couple; that is until there is not only something fishy going on with Edmund, but also something going on at the construction site Peter is working on, and then someone brings a watch into the pawn shop, a watch with a battery, which isn’t even possible yet, and a stamp that reads “Made in Taiwan!”

Rosemary and Peter work even harder to not only find out what could possibly be going on, but also where the watch came from, and who else knows about the portals and their home. All they do know is, someone else knows, and that someone is taking advantage of these portals and not using them for good things; someone is smuggling trinkets between 1884 and 2008. It’s the who, why, and how that are still the problem; but it’s a problem Rosemary and Peter have to solve themselves.

If I could describe this book in three words, it would be: Captivating, adventurous, and must-readable! I found it so easy to get attached to these characters and their story that I was really sad to see it end. I want so badly to go back and read the first two books in this series, and I will. There’s tons of action, and twists and turns that I really never saw coming, and I was blown away.

The writing is exciting, and beautiful, and imaginative and I can’t believe I had never heard of these books before now! If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend you do so, it’s definitely a story that is worth the time and is worth hunting down (it’s from Canada). ( )
  HarlequinTwilight | Nov 7, 2009 |
Reviewed by Samantha Clanton, aka "Harlequin Twilight" for TeensReadToo.com

I don't know about most people, but I for one find reading a series out of order to be completely frustrating and I usually can't do it. But this time, I could and I am really glad I did. THE YOUNG CITY is one of those stories that once you start, it's hard to stop. It's the third book in a series, THE UNWRITTEN BOOKS, but it completely holds its own as a standalone novel.

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister are eighteen, in love, and finally beginning their lives outside of their parents and are starting college, but something else has a different plan for them. While helping Rosemary's brother, Theo, move into an apartment, the floor falls in and the couple is swept away into the storm sewer of underground Toronto. When they finally get out of the water of the river, they find that they aren't in 2008 Toronto anymore; they seem to have gone back in time 124 years, and are now in 1884 Toronto. WOW! Twilight Zone, here I come!

But this isn't quite like that at all; this is a much simpler, much harder way to live. Could you imagine going from cell phones, computers, and television to a time where there is no hot running water, no such thing as a battery, and women are just being allowed to become doctors? I sure couldn't, but that's what Peter and Rosemary fall into. It's hard for them to even survive in such a different time, even from the first minute, but they soon meet Faith and Edmund, a brother and sister who have a pawn shop and who eagerly take the couple in, and help them adjust, no matter how odd they appear to be.

Working together, Peter and Rosemary have to come to terms with where they are and how it seems they can never get back to their tie, their home. Days become weeks, and weeks become months, and the couple begins to doubt whether they are ready for a life together, especially if that life is being stuck in 1884. Faith and Edmund help, but it's still not enough for the young couple; that is until there is not only something fishy going on with Edmund, but also something going on at the construction site Peter is working on, and then someone brings a watch into the pawn shop, a watch with a battery, which isn't even possible yet, and a stamp that reads "Made in Taiwan!"

Rosemary and Peter work even harder to not only find out what could possibly be going on, but also where the watch came from, and who else knows about the portals and their home. All they do know is, someone else knows, and that someone is taking advantage of these portals and not using them for good things; someone is smuggling trinkets between 1884 and 2008. It's the who, why, and how that are still the problem, but it's a problem Rosemary and Peter have to solve themselves.

If I could describe this book in three words, it would be: Captivating, adventurous, and must-readable! I found it so easy to get attached to these characters and their story that I was really sad to see it end. I want so badly to go back and read the first two books in this series, and I will. There's tons of action, and twists and turns that I really never saw coming, and I was blown away.

The writing is exciting, and beautiful, and imaginative, and I can't believe I had never heard of these books before now! If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend you do so. It's definitely a story that is worth the time and is worth hunting down (it's published in Canada). ( )
  GeniusJen | Oct 13, 2009 |
In the third and final volume of THE UNWRITTEN BOOKS, Peter and Rosemary fall through a hole in time and find themselves trapped in 1884.

I've always been big on time travel novels. They're both historical and contemporary; they allow the reader to examine certain ideas about her own time while learning about how folks lived in the past. This is particularly true of children's and YA lit, which so often seeks to teach the reader a little something even as it delivers a good story, and I think Bow has dealt with it very nicely. We learn an awful lot about life in late nineteenth century Toronto, but it never feels forced or preachy. Rosemary and Peter are fish out of water here, so we learn alongside them as they deal with a whole host of problems related to their new home, including a very different social morality. Rosemary's experience, in particular, is handled very well. Her struggles as a woman in the nineteenth century stand in stark contrast to Peter's relative freedom. The clothes alone present a huge problem for her, but Bow also gives us lots of little scenes that emphasize the inequalities she faces every day. For example, she's expected to serve their landlord at dinner, and Peter can't help her with the washing up because it's "woman's work." Her friendship with an aspiring female doctor also adds a nice dimension to the story and helps emphasize some of the differences between then and now.

Rosemary and Peter's relationship also comes in for a lot more scrutiny. While I found the first two books more middle grade in feel, I'd say THE YOUNG CITY is definitely a YA novel. It deals with a few more mature themes, including whether or not the main characters are ready for sex, and some parents may find it inappropriate for the under twelve crowd. That's not to say that it's a shocking, graphic book; the sexual elements are handled very well, with suggestion rather that description. There's tension between the two of them, but there's also frank discussion and evaluation. And it's far from the only thing going on here. Their emotional relationship continues to develop in response to their new situation. There are some very nice scenes here.

And the ending? This's a good ending, people. It's both tantalizing and conclusive. I loved it.

All in all, this was my favourite of THE UNWRITTEN BOOKS. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and wanted to share it with someone the moment I'd finished it.

(Review copy provided by the author. A slightly different version of this review originally appeared on my blog, Stella Matutina). ( )
  xicanti | Feb 24, 2009 |
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Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they're finally heading off for university. They're thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults. But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary's brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It's a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they've only been pretending to be. As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they're really ready for a future together - and what they will do if they can't get back. Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.

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