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View basket. Continue shopping. Title: eleventh plague. United Kingdom. Contact seller Seller Rating:. Free shipping Within U. The Eleventh Plague Marr M. Seller Image. More images. First off, I enjoy a good male protagonist. That's obviously not going to be the case when things do take a turn for the worse, so it was nice to have a strong male lead in young Stephen Quinn. The world the author has created is surreal but entirely plausible.
The aftermath of a war between North America and China was a flu-like pandemic that eradicated a good percentage of North America's population and left the survivors with nothing. The country is a wasteland, there are those who would push the survivors into slavery, and no one is safe. But when Stephen is left on his own, he discovers a community that has some semblance of what the world was like before the war. I think the thing that made this novel so realistic to me was that the kids were still kids, at least in Settler's Landing.
The children in the village still attend school, still play baseball, still pull pranks on each other. I think when faced with such hardships, human beings will always fall back on what they're accustomed to. And since the adults in this novel were all young adults themselves when the plague hit, they want their children to have that same sense of normalcy, no matter how short-lived it may be.
Kudos to Mr. I don't like to envision that our great nation could end up torn asunder in the manner of his book, but I'm glad to think that if it does, we'll still all be red-blooded Americans at heart if it comes to that. View all 5 comments. Apr 13, Rose rated it it was ok Shelves: survival , tbr-challenge , young-adult , drama , dystopia , rrrc-audiobook-challenge , audiobooks , ya-dystopian-books But the actual story is more like the aftermath of an insinuated plague, involving a fifteen year old boy roaming alongside his father and grandfather as scavengers, until some difficult circumstances come to pass.
So there's a bit of false advertisement in the title, because it's more about the people living in the aftermath of the plague. I decided to give this a read anyway, since it's my kind of genre. I really wanted to love this book, but sadly it wasn't to be. Don't get me wrong, it's well-written in spurts, and I finished it in an afternoon, but sadly it felt very lacking when juxtaposed to books in its same genre, alongside some progressions which I found difficult to believe in the world that was built.
I loved the audiobook narration by Dan Bittner, but it was difficult to maintain interest in some measures when the story shifted from survival, to love story, to political rises without a lot of depth. It seemed like it could've been developed a bit more. The story centers on Stephen Quinn, a boy making his way through civilization with his father and Grandfather. His grandfather passes and changes the survival dynamic between Stephen and his father considering their grandfather ruled their actions with an iron fist.
Stephen's father decides to help two captured civilians, but all heck breaks loose, leading to his father becoming severely injured and Stephen seeking refuge for the both of them in a civilized colony that seems peaceful, but Stephen doesn't trust it. Still, he tries to integrate himself in the society.
The story somewhat drags its feet after the initial events, and there are some actions that Stephen takes that I don't think add up in plausibility to cause the rift that occurs towards the end of the work.
In some moments, I see myself following Stephen in his struggles to fit in with the society, but there are other times when I want to throttle him for being so passive and quick to go along with what seem to be very unwise decisions. Still, there are moments here that are well-written, but needed fleshing out in order to give it more weight.
I'd be willing to see what else Jeff Hirsch writes in the future, but unfortunately this didn't quite tug at my heartstrings and interest enough to stick with me. View 2 comments. Jan 08, Nick rated it did not like it Shelves: dystopia. After reading this book here is a list of things I'm not sure this author understands: guns baseball dialogue teenage angst love age marriage Christianity fire weather time forests figurative language casinos antagonists shovels Brave New World This book read more like a bad episode of Little House on the Prairie you know, the episodes when they stopped following the books.
The most interesting characters were dead and in a coma the entire time. The love story was totally forced, the characters completely hollo After reading this book here is a list of things I'm not sure this author understands: guns baseball dialogue teenage angst love age marriage Christianity fire weather time forests figurative language casinos antagonists shovels Brave New World This book read more like a bad episode of Little House on the Prairie you know, the episodes when they stopped following the books.
The love story was totally forced, the characters completely hollow, and it didn't make any sense. I have no idea who these characters are, how old they are, or anything else. They acted like they were six years old, then they were fighting and in war like they were in their twenties, only to start acting like winy teenagers. None of this made any sense, and I'm very disappointed.
I'd wanted to read this book for a long time and when I finally did I was horribly disappointed. It'll be in the free bin at a garage sale soon enough. View all 3 comments. Mar 27, Erica rated it it was amazing Shelves: own , books-read-in , 5-star-reads , the-weekender.
This is my first time reading anything by this author and I definitely want to read more. Sep 17, Stephanie rated it really liked it Shelves: dystopian-post-apocalyptic , fiction , young-adult. Why do I love these post-apocalyptic books so much?
And the zombies I love zombies. This book doesn't have zombies but the world is in ruins after a world war and killer flu virus called P11, the Eleventh Plague. Stephen and his dad and grandpa have been surviving as salvagers, traversing the US from South to North and back again, collecting anything they can sell at the big camps in Canada and Florida. Things take a dramatic turn for the worse when grandpa dies suddenly and then dad gets hur Why do I love these post-apocalyptic books so much?
Things take a dramatic turn for the worse when grandpa dies suddenly and then dad gets hurt so badly that he falls into a coma.
Luck finds Stephen and his father in the bottom of a ravine when some other survivors are searching the area. It turns out these people are from a place called Settlers' Landing where they have created a sanctuary of pre-Collapse America. They live in actual houses, go to school, have parks and playgrounds, and even celebrate Thanksgiving.
Stephen is utterly dumb-founded and completely lost. He has never experienced life pre-Collapse and he longs to stay there and take the opportunity at a normal life. But the world is not what it was, and the sanctuary is not as safe as he thought.
I really hope there is a second book. The character of Jenny needs her own story. Jun 05, Christine rated it it was ok Shelves: galley , ya. A fast read that's best suited for younger teens looking for a post-apocalyptic world setting.
The characters are young and act like it. There were several times when I rolled my eyes at their antics because they either didn't or couldn't grasp the situation outside their little community. That things were dire and life was hard, and playing pranks or acting out weren't going to get you anywhere. For the most part Stephen was a good leading character. He's just trying to figure out where he belong A fast read that's best suited for younger teens looking for a post-apocalyptic world setting.
He's just trying to figure out where he belongs and what he should do after spending almost his entire life listening to his grandfather tell him what to do. He's growing into himself and doing the best he can, which I get, but there's a limit to how much immaturity I can take.
Like with Jennifer. I didn't like Jennifer at all. I understand she had a hard life, but the way she was written made her bratty and insolent. Overall, it wasn't great, but it was readable and made you think about what you would do if faced with a similar situation.
I've read better post-apocalyptic books, but this works for younger teens since it has less gore. Oct 21, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it liked it Shelves: read-in Struggling to fit in after a life of trusting no one, Stephen is embraced by some, but the target of others.
This was a buddy read with my favorite year old. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a problem with the plot. There you go. View all 6 comments. Feb 08, Lauren rated it liked it. I kind of had higher hopes from this book. That's what this book was like. I wouldn't re-read it. I don't think I'd necessarily recommend it, either, unless someone is looking for a very specific criteria that this book fits. It had the opportunity to be a really great book with the dystopian plotline it put out, but it didn't seem to quite get there.
I didn't particularly enjoy reading this book. It was okay I kind of had higher hopes from this book. It was okay, but I didn't like the main characters or the love plot. The female protagonist, Jenny I really did not like her. I felt like the characters weren't very well developed. Not my favorite. I'd give it a 2. May 06, Giselle rated it it was ok Shelves: audiobook.
View all 8 comments. Aug 28, Jennifer Rinehart rated it really liked it. It was the front cover blurb from Suzanne Collins that caught my eye. I've read the Hunger Games three times and if Suzanne says this book is 'excellent' then it at least deserved a second look. I grabbed it along with a copy of Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep which is super duper, btw and found a place to sit down which is a rare thing at Barnes and Noble nowadays and started to read the first chapter.
From the first page I was drawn in. I don't like to make comparisons to other books, it's It was the front cover blurb from Suzanne Collins that caught my eye. I don't like to make comparisons to other books, it's hard to do it well and people always squawk about it if the book compared is one they either love or hate, but Stephen, the main character reminds me a lot of Katniss from the Hunger Games.
Like the characters from these other books, Stephen is a young person forced to deal with terrifyingly mature situations that could lead to dire situations for himself and others. How he rises to the challenge is what kept me reading through lunch then dinner without stopping.
Stephen's world is far different than the one we know now. His family are scavengers, think of the dead and rotting world in movies like Mad Max or Logan's Run and you wouldn't be far off. There was a war with China, then a plague and what's left of America lives in small settlements scattered throughout the country. His small family are scavengers. His father, his brutish grandfather and Stephen roam what's left of the cities for tradeable items, something like a can of pears could allow them to have food and shelter for a week.
But scavengers are not the only ones wandering the cities. There are ex-military bandits, chinese troops and slavers and a whole part of the country is off limits, though his father sometimes talks about finding a place to settle down, raise crops, etc. But that would mean striking out into undiscovered country and leaving the trail with it's semblance of safety. It is within this hopeless situation that everything turns from bad to worse, pretty much from the first page with a funeral.
I wont tell you who dies, but the funeral seems to be the beginning of a chain of decisions, some good and some so completely bad, you'll wish you could step into the book to advise Stephen.
There's a lot of room for heroics, but Stephen is a reluctant hero, which is pretty much my favorite kind, kicking butt and taking names is for movies, Stephen seemed real to me, he didn't want to get involved in bad situations but sometimes you can't help it. Best of all, Stephen is an aware character, what I mean is, he knows he's making decisions that could be dreadful and he does it anyways.
I guess I like that too, his decisiveness is refreshing. My only complaint with the book is that it was kinda fast, before I knew it and was ready the book was done. I'm a fan of quick reads, but I can't help thinking there could have been a little more, more description, more worldbuilding, more story. Oh well, guess I could read it again. View 1 comment. Feb 14, Ming Wei rated it really liked it Shelves: read-horror-related-books. A well produced novel, imaginative, enthralling tight until the end, this book kept me interested right until the end, never got bored in its pages, the story doe not always follow the path that you expect when reading through its pages.
Well written, no editorial issues, nice book cover, a good book. I used to think the end of the world meant the end of everything. Now I know it just means the end of civilization.
Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade for food and other items essential for survival. But when Stephen's grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his way to Settler's Landing, a community that seems too good to be true, where there are real houses, barbecues, a school, and even baseball games.
Then Stephen meets strong, defiant, mischievous Jenny, who refuses to accept things as they are. And when they play a prank that goes horribly wrong, chaos erupts, and they find themselves in the midst of a battle that will change Settler's Landing forever.
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