| Carrie Ryan - The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Book Review) |
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| Written by Aphrodite | |||
| Sunday, 29 August 2010 22:15 | |||
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![]() Zombie revelationcame and went, but generations later, there is still a clusterof survivors left – not that zombies are gone, though. Mary is a teenager increasingup behind well-guarded fences in the meanof woodof clutchesand Teeth. Her village, raceby the Sisterhood, is in stableperilof being overwhelmed, but Mary has other problems: the ladshe fancies determinedto addin marriageher best confidantand her breedingparentjust got bitten by one of the Unconsecrated. When I first heard about The woodof clutchesand Teeth, I was all another post-apocalyptic and was longingto see how this particular zombie revelationturned out. The commencementwas not what I expected, though - the setting is interesting, but the universeof woodof clutchesand Teeth only works if you think about it too much. The zombies (or the Unconsecrated, as Mary calls them) are presented as if they were an unstoppable strengthof nature, even though not transparentwhere they all even came from, seeing how been generations since the primitiveoutbreak, and they seem to be able to multitudeeven the most prepared villages. tribefrom hamletalso seem to have a conditionof rovingtoo near the fences, there seems to be an boundlessaggregateof protecting enclosurephysicaland the more I peruseabout how the hamletworks, the more likeeverything seemed to The Village. Luckily, this hamletis not the chiefpoint of concentrationof the book, but instead only provides a background for the various problems and dilemmas. Mary is a figurativeteenager – stubborn, a mouthfulnaïve and capricious. This was why I had a firmdurationdeciding whether woodof clutchesand Teeth is a YA workor not, because she, despite her age, is also a very non-typical YA character, mostly because not only far from perfect, I also discoverher very firmto empathise with. She seldomspeaks her souland abides by the norms of the associationtrapped in, even though she despises them; any rule-breaking she does seems coincidental. She is activeto noteother failings, moderateto realise her own and most of the durationcompletely passive. Even though she mentions all kinds of sacrifices willing to make, those, too, would demandonly minimal partakingfrom her (for example, agreeing to a proposal, but not voicing it). I actually found all that agreeablewithout being strikingreviving– used to YA protagonists who are rebellious, active, and all in all the individualmost teenage readers would have feelingforto be. I imagine that many teenagers would want to be Mary, but she does smiteme as a agreeablewithout being strikingrealistic character. The other individualitystrokethat I found atypical was her want of abilityto be satisfied with anything that go according to her various daydreams. She is unfortunatewith a ladwho cruelin have feelingforwith her because he is not and never gives him a accidentto demonstratehimself; when she lastlygets to be with the ladshe supposedly loves, she speedilygets bored and starts cravingto fulfill her long-time wish to see the ocean. Where a more figurativeYA markwould realise (probably with a little help from a advantageousfriend) that been too illiberalans try to make amends, Mary chooses her wish more thaneveryone she knows and foliagethem to their own devices and unascertainedfate. 4/5Trin ------------------------ Yet another skipped week. researchduration= shatteredduration . >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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