Planet Urth
- Liquid Frost
- Mar 12, 2016
- 2 min read
It is a true rarity that I give 1 or 2 star reviews on a book. Books that I simply can't into, I abandon and don't rate or review. There are some books that are slow to start and end up entertaining. Sadly, this isn't one of those. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I was hoping it would pick up? It didn't. Avery and her younger sister, June, are all that's left of a family. They live in a cave and venture out daily to hunt and train. The setting is Post-Apocalytpic where humans are scattered. Mutated humans and animals control the wold. Luckily, humans are still the smartest of the lot. The bulk of the book is Avery thinking about protecting and taking care of her sister. I don't think a few pages can go by without this inner-dialogue popping on page. It gets annoying. We get it. Urthmen would provide for an interesting backstory, but they appear to be functioning idiots. This book is pretty predictable and the dialogue and lack of action are utterly annoying. Create a box. Draw the character. Follow the recipe. Had this book been a couple chapters long, it may have been a great start to a fun story. I like the premise, the scenery, and the potential. I'm running away from this series as if I were being tracked by a pack of Lurkers.
1 of 5 Stars
From the Publisher:
More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen. Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror. After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June’s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task. Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind. But are they truly alone? Find out in this raw and riveting first installment of the Planet Urth series.
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