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Wednesday, August 22, 2012


                        

                                                   REVIEW




“The city of Ember” is a story about a messenger girl and a pipework  boy (Lina and Doon) who will discover a new city with the help of a message  they need to escape before it's too late and the city  disintegrates  as a result of an explosion.

Lina is a messenger who has always been dreaming of a new city; she likes to draw the city of her dreams. After her granny dies, Poppy (her little sister) and her lived with Mrs. Murdo.

Doon works in the pipe works and wants to fix the generator to give the city permanent light; he is Lina’s  best friend and both are the first to step on the new city of their dreams.

The great thing about the book is that it is really interesting and has a lot of tension all along the novel , but particularly at the end of it. It also shows that sometimes our dreams can come true. What I didn't like much was the descriptions. this novel has many difficult words, but you can understand them if you keep on reading.


I recommend it for people who like books about  adventure , friendship and mystery.  It also gives us an idea of how the world could look like in future. This is one of the books I most liked, I also recommend to have a dictionary  handy to deal with the difficult words

Natalia Bruno

Colegio Arrayanes



The city of Ember Review


                                    

                                   Review

 "The City of Ember" is a story about an underground city whose citizens must get away since  the generator, the machine that gives light to all the city, is working worse and  worse  every day. But there is a problem: the instructions to get out got all broken and the message cannot be easily deciphered. Two young citizens, the protagonists, must  decode it and find the way out.

One of them is called Lina  Mayfleet, a 12-year-old  girl that works as a messenger. She is good at sports, especially at running, her legs are really quick. She found the instructions that would lead them out of the city in her little sister´s mouth and she has been trying to make  sense of the message inside, with  the help of Doon, the male protagonist. Harow Doon is twelve too, he enjoys studying bugs and electricity. He is really clever, but unfortunately he couldn´t use his abilities because he works at the pipeworks. Yet, his perseverance will  help him  find  the way out  of Ember!!!

This book is interesting, in my opinion, better than other school books, it is compelling when the characters get into problems!!!
I recommend it for students of my age or younger since the characters are around our age, and that makes the story catching!!!
Group: Valen Molinari- Cande Zupan- Anna Hisch- Ángeles Aracama 
Colegio  Arrayanes