review by\u00a0John Chon, age 15<\/p>\n
Summary:\u00a0Seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres has lived on the AgraStar farm north of Atlanta since she was found outside the gates at the age of five. Now she\u2019s part of the security force guarding the fence and watching for scavengers\u2014people who would rather steal genetically engineered food from the company than work for it. When a group of such rebels accidentally sets off an explosion in the research compound, it releases into the air a blight that kills every living thing in its path\u2014including humans. With blight-resistant seeds in her pocket, Tempest teams up with a scavenger boy named Alder and runs for help. But when they finally arrive at AgraStar headquarters, they discover that there\u2019s an even bigger plot behind the blight\u2014and it\u2019s up to them to stop it from happening again. A fast-paced action-adventure story that is Margaret Atwood\u2019s Oryx and Crake meets Nancy Farmer\u2019s House of the Scorpion.<\/span>\u00a0-Goodreads<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Blight<\/i><\/b> by Alexandra Duncan is a book aimed at the YA population. To set the stage, the book has three main components. One: the USA is run by corporations now. Two: there are people who live outside the corporation\u2019s influence, and three: the corporations each specialize in one thing. For AgraStar, our main character Tempest\u2019s company, it is corn. However, when an operation to quell down a rogue farmer goes horribly wrong, the entire base is evacuated. Tempest is forced to work with a rogue as they try to find their way out of the mess. After surviving hijackers, killers, and even AgraStar patrols, she arrives at the company headquarters. But what will happen when she arrives, and what secrets will she discover?<\/span> Find this book in our catalog: Blight<\/p>\n Catalog Number: On Call<\/p>\n 528 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" review by\u00a0John Chon, age 15 Blight\u00a0by Alexandra Duncan Summary:\u00a0Seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres has lived on the AgraStar farm north of Atlanta since she was found outside the gates at the age of five. Now she\u2019s part of the security force guarding the fence and watching for scavengers\u2014people who would rather steal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2018\/04\/blight.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-1cE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4534,"url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2018\/black-swan-green-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":4628,"position":0},"title":"Black Swan Green –Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"January 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"review by\u00a0Kristina Yin, age 17 Black Swan Green\u00a0by\u00a0David Mitchell \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Black Swan Green is the spiritual descendant of coming-of-age books like Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations, but because of its modernity and realism, it is far more interesting and relatable than its ancestors. 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\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This book was decidedly average. It brought nothing new to the genre. The characters were predictable, uninteresting, and very flat. Their next move could be interpreted easily. The plot and book itself were not original either. This book was honestly a giant clich\u00e9 with nothing new about it. The book was also much longer and had much more plot \u201ctwists\u201d than were needed. Most of it was fluff, with very little plot-relevant substance, at least in my opinion. This book is a rather uninteresting addition to the YA books, and I did not really enjoy reading it. 2\/5 stars. <\/span><\/p>\n
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