The People of Sparks

My, my. I seem to be subconsciously attracted to dystopian books or something. Either that, or it's just a very popular YA subject. Anyway, The People of Sparks was a pretty strong sequel to The City of Ember. The adventure, I was glad to find out, was not as muted and abrupt as in the first book. Also, since the book was set hundreds, or possibly thousands of years in the future, I had a riot with the descriptions in the book and figuring out what they really were supposed to be in our time. The main problem for me was the language. At times the wording felt like it was for litle kids, and then it switched over to feeling geared towards a much older audience. But in the bigger picture, I'd really like to get the third book. NOW.

Thanks to Lina and Doon, the dying cave city of Ember has been evacuated, and all the Emberites have moved to a beautiful, bright land named Sparks. The natives of Sparks welcome the refugees with open arms, even supplying them with plenty of food. As the differences of the two cultures show more and more, it's a lot more obvious that Sparks may seem like paradise at first, but under the surface are problems, conflicts, and outrage that could be even worse than the ones the Emberites escaped from in the first place.

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