My auntie lent me this book on the condition that I read it in a day, because my cousin was also reading it. So it wasn't really lent to me. I guess i was pretty much ordered to plow through the thing because my auntie had liked it and thought I would too.
I read it in under five hours to my cousins shock. I don't think she expected I could read that fast. But hey! I was under pressure.
This is a story about the end of the world. But it's the slowest end of the world I've ever read about.
Basically the world starts to spin slower and slower, and so days start to get longer and longer. Days go from 24 hours long, to 26.5 hours, to 34 hours, and so on.
No one knows why this is happening. At first no one even noticed. But once they did the problems just flowed in and they didn't stop coming.
The story is told from the point of view of an eleven year old girl named Julia, who watches the world fall apart right in front of her. She explains to the reader how everything that was taken for granted in the world can no longer be relied on.
The entire world just implodes. Plants and animals start to die out, people panic and start running even though there is no where to run to, people start getting sick, crops die...
And all this happens very slowly, Julia only tells us how the world survived the first year of this disaster. She tells us about how people reacted, how some panicked completely, and how some just acted as if nothing was wrong.
An interesting and quite read. If you're interested in apocalyptic stories I do recommend this book. It's terrifyingly realistic.
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