They’ve got a lot more to work with now and at least they all seem to know what’s going on. I’m really looking forward to how that knowledge actually effects Sam in the next book and how the kids move on from the end of Earthfall.
You do discover their plan and how everything happened. Granted, we didn’t actually get to see a lot of how the Voidborn operate in this book. How are they taken care of and who does it? Things like that which kids maybe didn’t think about but I did. There wasn’t a whole lot of explanation about how the people of Earth who did fall victim to the brainlessness are still alive at all after like a year and a half. Really, the only issues I have with the book are related to the Voidborn alien invaders – also called ‘The Threat’ by the kids. It’s a middle grade book largely aimed at boys so I won’t really hold that against the book either. And even then I still managed to get Kate and Rachel confused now and again. Except, of course, the sort of love interest whose one of the only female characters of note. I lost track of the other kids now and again. Not many of them are all that memorable – the adult characters are a bit more memorable and there are only a couple of them. Sam is pretty much Sam his friends are pretty much his friends. There was a little bit of a lack of character development in this book but I don’t think it was too distracting from the story. The beginning of the book is a little flashback heavy and usually I’m not the biggest fan of that but it worked really well to establish Sam’s story pretty early on. I’m glad we picked up with Sam closer to when things started happening and most of our time with him was spent in a constant state of movement. The time that Sam spent alone must have been pretty boring because a whole lot sure happens in a short period of time once he meets up with the other survivors. You never want to put it down because you want to know what happens next. What I think I liked the most about Earthfall is what I like about most middle grade targeted books – it keeps going.
But as the story progresses Sam starts to realize that he and the others might be more than just the lucky few who have avoided being turned into mindless drones and that there might be something else going on.
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Together with the others and led by a scientist who may not be telling his kids the full truth they do their best to stay alive and come up with an offensive. At first he’s just relieved to see other people but he very quickly takes initiative and realizes that he now has a way to finally fight back. One scratch or bite from them is meant to be fatal but some how Sam’s managed to survive and now suddenly he’s being rescued by a ragtag team of kids his own age who’ve been holed up fighting the good fight. He’s managed to survive on his own somehow despite the alien hunters and creatures that roam the streets. We pick up with Sam sometime after a strange alien invasion has caused everyone in the world to become mindless, subservient drones. It’s solidly situated in the whole ‘middle grade’ area so you know you’re getting something that’s going to move pretty quickly. I’m vain enough to enjoy a good story with someone who has the same name as me.Įarthfall was a really fun, quick read for me. World wide alien invasion, set in London, follows around a kid named Sam? Yeah. When I heard about Earthfall, I was intrigued. I also watched Red Dawn a lot as a child so. This is kind of sad because I’ve been obsessed with the whole human resistance idea since I first saw the original V miniseries when I was about ten years old. We’ve got our fair share of zombies and occasionally we get a bit of science fiction thrown in there but we don’t get a whole lot of alien invasion stories. I’ve been waiting for a good alien invasion story to hit the MG/YA/NA market for a while now.
Genre(s): Middle Grade Fiction, Middle Grade Science Fiction, Alien Invasion Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers (US) Bloombury (UK)
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