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Carregando... Undergrowth (2019)de Chel Hylott
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Seventeen-year-old Mariam has been mixed up with the supernatural since she was a kid. Between a half-rotting Beast showing up in her dad's study when she was six years old and the fact that she can't die, it doesn't come as too much of a shock when drought-ridden Los Angeles turns into a sentient, carnivorous rainforest overnight. The tedium of wandering through a ruined city filled with dead bodies and crumbling buildings is broken when she stumbles upon beautiful Camila and her ragtag crew of survivors. Mariam isn't exactly altruist of the year, but her soft spot for kids means she can't just leave them to fend for their own. She rescues them and decides to throw her lot in with theirs. Despite herself, she quickly becomes a part of their family. However, even as they all start feeling at home in their new vegetal world, sinister figures from Mariam's past begin to reappear, and the whole hell-jungle situation begins to feel a lot more personal. As she learns more about her family's involvement with the unnatural forces that caused all of this destruction, Mariam is faced with a terrifying truth: she might have to betray someone to save the city and her new friends. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Very much what was notated from a reviewer, "Undergrowth" fell under the Young Adult category that held apocalyptic, science fiction, and paranormal elements in which case I initially thought that the set-up would win me over but that's a big fat nope.
There were far more underlying issues and hiccups than I hadn't expected along the way that made this a less than satisfactory read. It was like too much happening at the same time compact under two hundred pages with Miriam and her journey in surviving an apocalyptic world that nearly manifested overnight. Alongside that, with the length of the book, it didn't do the story any justice especially with the lack of descriptive writing that could easily prevent any reader from having a decent reading experience. To be honest, besides what was showcased on the blurb, there wasn't much to go on with what the characters actually looked like, their ages, and who they were as individuals.
Essentially a whole lot of nothing was written and I wasn't able to create any sort of connection with the novel which is surprising because the book had so much potential and I think if the storyline was thoroughly thought out, subplots wiped clean or provided more description and characters given depth, this could have easily been a hit.
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