The Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Friday, June 11, 2010
Books of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau (A "Top 50 Post")
Post-apocalyptic fiction for young people!
Seriously original. DuPrau, in City of Ember, made me scared of the dark for the first time in 20 years. I don't mean to suggest that the Books of Ember are scary, but to praise how effectively DuPrau paints her picture of an underground city with dying light. It was all so wonderfully oppressive.
As a whole, the series is enormously satisfying and ultimately hopeful.
I'm also a weirdo because unlike everyone else in the universe, I really enjoyed Prophet of Yonwood
. Perhaps more than I enjoyed the books before and after it, actually.
(But the series favorite is still City of Ember. Sure they story arc as a whole is great, but who can resist the coolness that is an entire society living underground?)
by Jeanne DuPrau (A "Top 50 Post")Post-apocalyptic fiction for young people!
Seriously original. DuPrau, in City of Ember
, made me scared of the dark for the first time in 20 years. I don't mean to suggest that the Books of Ember are scary, but to praise how effectively DuPrau paints her picture of an underground city with dying light. It was all so wonderfully oppressive.As a whole, the series is enormously satisfying and ultimately hopeful.
I'm also a weirdo because unlike everyone else in the universe, I really enjoyed Prophet of Yonwood
. Perhaps more than I enjoyed the books before and after it, actually.(But the series favorite is still City of Ember
. Sure they story arc as a whole is great, but who can resist the coolness that is an entire society living underground?)
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