Author: Emmy Laybourne
# of Pages: 352 (paperback)
Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Dystopia
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Synopsis: Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.
In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel Monument 14, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.
Review: And I had such high hopes for this book too.
I almost gave this book three stars, but I didn't think that would be fair to group Monument 14 with other books that were just that much better. Laybourne tries to make her book more interesting by throwing in every possible natural disaster she can. True, some of it was interesting, but very overdone.
The beginning was sloppy (and confusing for me; I hate it when a whole bunch of characters are thrown at me at once, and I'm expected to remember them all), and I felt a lack of a connection with Dean until the middle-end of the book. He's more of an observer than a do-er.
The romance is not interesting at all.. This might be at the fault of our "exciting" protagonist....
But, nevertheless, it could have been so much worse. I am actually considering reading the second book. Do I recommend it? Perhaps not.
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