Hostage The Change Book 2 edition by Rachel Manija Brown Sherwood Smith Children eBooks
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Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In Las Anclas, the skull-faced sheriff possesses superhuman strength, the doctor can speed up time, and the squirrels can teleport sandwiches out of your hands.
In book one, Stranger, teenage prospector Ross Juarez stumbled into town half-dead, bringing with him a precious artifact, a power no one has ever had before, and a whole lot of trouble— including an invasion by Voske, the king of Gold Point. The town defeated Voske’s army, with the deciding blow struck by Ross, but at a great cost.
In Hostage, a team sent by King Voske captures Ross and takes him to Gold Point. There he meets Kerry, Voske’s teenage daughter, who has been trained to be as ruthless as her father. While his friends in Las Anclas desperately try to rescue him, Ross is forced to engage in a battle of wills with the king himself.
Hostage The Change Book 2 edition by Rachel Manija Brown Sherwood Smith Children eBooks
Sometime last week I came across the concept of "hopepunk". I just saw it in passing - the idea of a genre of post-apocalyptic type fiction but instead of everything being grimdark it celebrated human resilience and kindness in the face of adversity and danger. This is exactly what The Change books feel like to me, and I love it! The world isn't an utopia, but even in the most dangerous and dystopian corners there is still compassion and bravery. And in the less dystopian, people not only survive but thrive through cooperation and community-building, and it's so incredibly lovely to be shown a world where everything an apocalypse has happened without it being the end of good.These books are a pure delight to me - the complicated, lovable characters; beautiful and dangerous world and thrilling plot are the perfect mix of adventure and emotion and excitement at all the amazing details the writers let you explore in their rich world. Raccoons that build cities, adorable messenger rats, rabbits that cast really bad illusions and squirrels that can snatch food from humans using teleportation make up just a fraction of the vivid backdrop to the characters' adventures, and I love them all.
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Hostage The Change Book 2 edition by Rachel Manija Brown Sherwood Smith Children eBooks Reviews
Second book in the Change series. I've waited for it for quite some time (and i'm pretty grateful I won't have to wait for it two-three years in trad publishing, too), and it didn't disappoint the pacing kicks up a notch, there's a fascinating kidnapping/enemy territory/dungeons (SUCH DUNGEONS VERY HURT/COMFORT MUCH SATISFACTION) sequence for Ross and a parallel culture shock storyline for Kerry (the daughter of King Voske, a frankly terrifying tyrant antagonist of the whole series) discovering life and people outside of her father's dark shadow. Meanwhile Jenny struggles with her PTSF, Mia with her place in Las Anclas society, Yuki with his desire for privacy and freedom, and the town itself with its nascent xenophobia.
Aside from all the adventuring, solid worldbuilding, troves of hurt/comfort, diversity, LGBT characters and a canon OT3 in the center, the thing that continues to be my favorite about this universe is how unapologetically optimistic it is if there's post-apocalypse it's how it should be, with people, on the whole, banding together to do their best by each other, despite all the snags. There are villains and tragedies and horrible things, but overall there's a movement towards kindness and cooperation, not survival; I find it endlessly reassuring.
I was just as wowed by this book as I was by Stranger. The kids manage to be competent and brave without being unrealistically hypercompetent or mature. They have crushes, and frenemies, and sulks, but they also have legitimate trauma, hard-won survival skills, and adults who want to help and support them while keeping them accountable for their actions.
in this book, the focus is less a town-under-siege and more a palace intrigue crossed with some hair-raising desert survival and a dash of Force 10 from Navarone. There is a lot of stuff in here about the different uses and abuses of power, and what it takes to be a leader. I also appreciated the nuance on the continuum that includes manipulation and politeness. Manners are indeed a weapon, and this book doesn't ignore that.
The focus of this book was more on action than character development, but it did not feel imbalanced, just fast-paced. I'm looking forward to the next two books!
Read if You like adventure, teamwork, and training that is not just a montage. I also appreciate the adult relationships that we glimpse through the story
Skip if You are not ok with oblique descriptions of torture. Not gruesome, but scary.
Also read
Force 10 from Navarone. It's a classic for a reason.
Stranger!
Bitterblue
What I love most about both of The Change books is the complexity of the characters, their internal motivations, and the way they interact with the world. Just as in the real world surface impressions are often misleading, the same is true for the people of The Change. They are complicated, difficult, and fascinating while still being true to themselves -- just like people are in the real world. They also have a far wider, and more realistic, range of reactions to trauma and tragedy than people in many novels, something which is quite reaction. The characters of The Change feel like real people living through extraordinary circumstances, with all their flaws and features on display. They are also beautifully diverse.
The other thing I adore about The Change books is the world building. I loved the world and the creatures we were introduced to in Stranger, and things only become more interesting in Hostage. The flora and fauna that populate the Earth in which the Change takes place are characters in their own right, and I keep wanting to know more. If they published an illustrated guide to the flora and fauna of the world, I'd snap it up... and then probably have nightmares for weeks.
Sometime last week I came across the concept of "hopepunk". I just saw it in passing - the idea of a genre of post-apocalyptic type fiction but instead of everything being grimdark it celebrated human resilience and kindness in the face of adversity and danger. This is exactly what The Change books feel like to me, and I love it! The world isn't an utopia, but even in the most dangerous and dystopian corners there is still compassion and bravery. And in the less dystopian, people not only survive but thrive through cooperation and community-building, and it's so incredibly lovely to be shown a world where everything an apocalypse has happened without it being the end of good.
These books are a pure delight to me - the complicated, lovable characters; beautiful and dangerous world and thrilling plot are the perfect mix of adventure and emotion and excitement at all the amazing details the writers let you explore in their rich world. Raccoons that build cities, adorable messenger rats, rabbits that cast really bad illusions and squirrels that can snatch food from humans using teleportation make up just a fraction of the vivid backdrop to the characters' adventures, and I love them all.
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