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NOVEMBER 2010
This month’s recommended book is also the third in a trilogy. If you haven’t yet read Gemma Malley’s The Declaration, then you really must.
Pincent Pharma has developed and manufactured Longevity – a drug that holds the secret to eternal life. The price? Those who take the drug sign a declaration that forbids them from having children. No child can be born unless his or her parents ‘opt out’ of eternal life. Any child born to parents who have signed the declaration is considered to be ‘surplus’ and is taken to live in the Surplus Halls.
As a surplus, Anna does not even merit a surname. When Peter arrives at Grange Hall with news of the outside world, Anna’s life changes forever.
Anna and Peter’s story continues in The Resistance and concludes in The Legacy which is November’s ‘Book of the Month’.
In The Legacy, a terrible virus is spreading throughout the world, and people are dying. Longevity is no longer working. How long can the authorities hide the truth from the public? Is the secret to eternal life lost forever?
OCTOBER 2010
My Cool Read for October is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, the third and final part of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy.
In the first novel, Katniss and Peeta are sent from District 12 to take part in The Hunger Games. Two children – one boy and one girl – are sent from each of the twelve districts to the Capitol to take part in the televised event. For the winner comes a new life in the winner’s village and food for the winning district for a year. However, this is a fight to the death, and the winner is the last child alive.
In Catching Fire, Peeta and Katniss must return to the Games with other past winners, to compete once again. It is clear that Katniss will not be forgiven for her act of defiance against the Capitol. If they are both to survive again they must win the people’s attention and affection which means keeping up the pretence that they are madly in love. Meanwhile there are rumours of rebellion against the Capitol.
In Mockingjay, mentally and physically scarred by recent events, Katniss returns briefly to District 12 which has been completely destroyed – except for the Victor’s Village. The rebel leaders, want Katniss to be their Mockingjay – a symbol of the rebellion – but, true to form, she agrees only on certain conditions - one of which is that she will be the one to kill President Snow.
I cannot recommend this trilogy highly enough.
