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Re-read the Tomorrow series
That series was never so popular in the US, but when it came out my whole family was crazy about them. I've actually recommended them to Ana this week - they still hold up.
One thing that bugged me the first time around, and bugs me more now, is the way the main characters, despite spending an awful lot of time thinking and contemplating their actions (the thoughts : explosions ratio is way off from what you expect), never actually confront the fact that "you can't just steal another person's country" is exactly what their ancestors did. (Well, Lee and Homer's ancestors didn't, presumably, but they still benefit from the system.) I mean, at one point in the seven book series the narrator does compare the invaders moving in to the settlers who found a country "with nobody around that they cared about", but that's about it. Given that there were uncontacted people in Australia until 1984 (within my lifetime!), and that's the same year the last Aboriginal Residential School closed, that's quite an oversight. Not sure how this could've been worked into the books, but there's seven of them. They had time to bring this up.
Still, other than that, it was worth a re-read. Not gonna recommend them to Eva, though. She doesn't like reading about dead people, and she certainly doesn't like reading books with dead dogs.
One thing that bugged me the first time around, and bugs me more now, is the way the main characters, despite spending an awful lot of time thinking and contemplating their actions (the thoughts : explosions ratio is way off from what you expect), never actually confront the fact that "you can't just steal another person's country" is exactly what their ancestors did. (Well, Lee and Homer's ancestors didn't, presumably, but they still benefit from the system.) I mean, at one point in the seven book series the narrator does compare the invaders moving in to the settlers who found a country "with nobody around that they cared about", but that's about it. Given that there were uncontacted people in Australia until 1984 (within my lifetime!), and that's the same year the last Aboriginal Residential School closed, that's quite an oversight. Not sure how this could've been worked into the books, but there's seven of them. They had time to bring this up.
Still, other than that, it was worth a re-read. Not gonna recommend them to Eva, though. She doesn't like reading about dead people, and she certainly doesn't like reading books with dead dogs.
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However, he's quite a skilled writer.
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