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The Whisper (The Roar #2)
by
Emma Clayton (Goodreads Author)
Listen-can you hear it?
The explosive sequel to THE ROAR!
Suddenly alert to the microchips implanted in their brains, the army of stolen children revolts! But the response of the tyrant Mal Gorman is swift and brutal: He quickly quells the mutiny, sweeping up the fleeing children in spiked nets like so many trapped fish and dragging them back to their training camp.
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The explosive sequel to THE ROAR!
Suddenly alert to the microchips implanted in their brains, the army of stolen children revolts! But the response of the tyrant Mal Gorman is swift and brutal: He quickly quells the mutiny, sweeping up the fleeing children in spiked nets like so many trapped fish and dragging them back to their training camp.
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Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Chicken House
(first published 2012)
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The Whisper
By: Emma Clayton
Science Fiction
309 pages
Finished 8/9/12
The Whisper is the story of a struggle between 2 governments and mutants who are trying to stop the fighting. The governments are seperated by The Wall. Mika, Ellie and other mutants are taken captive by the government behind The Wall. The government has taken all 12 year-old children except the mutants and Kobi and given them microchips so they will do whatever the government wants them to do. Mika, Ellie and all the other mutant...more
By: Emma Clayton
Science Fiction
309 pages
Finished 8/9/12
The Whisper is the story of a struggle between 2 governments and mutants who are trying to stop the fighting. The governments are seperated by The Wall. Mika, Ellie and other mutants are taken captive by the government behind The Wall. The government has taken all 12 year-old children except the mutants and Kobi and given them microchips so they will do whatever the government wants them to do. Mika, Ellie and all the other mutant...more
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I just finished the book, and ill tell you about the part at the end. When the boy gets into a room with filled with metal and with beds. The bot starts looking around the room until he heard giant foot step entering the room. he quickly ran behind a bed and hid there. He saw a alien with a gun. The alien searched around the room if there was anything but he saw nothing in the room. So when he was exiting the room the boy ran out of the room and the alien heard him so he chased the boy, the boy...more
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Book review for the whisper
By Emma Clayton
In another fantastic story of an advanced time in the future 40 years after all the humans on earth moved into a third of the planet in the North. Emma Clayton starts of the second book “the Whisper” of the first book of the series “the roar “on how it started with the rumor of the animal plague that scared millions of people. They build themselves a concert cage and kill all the animals on the other side of the wall with poison dust. Now most of the p...more
By Emma Clayton
In another fantastic story of an advanced time in the future 40 years after all the humans on earth moved into a third of the planet in the North. Emma Clayton starts of the second book “the Whisper” of the first book of the series “the roar “on how it started with the rumor of the animal plague that scared millions of people. They build themselves a concert cage and kill all the animals on the other side of the wall with poison dust. Now most of the p...more
I quite enjoyed the first of this series - The Roar - but this one didn't do it for me. My main issue is that it felt too preachy. I liked the story line and concept of the books, and I thought the author was creative with children being born with animal mutations to draw them back to the earth and nature that they were disconnected from. The action and story parts of the book were interesting. But every time the story talked about what and why the wall had been built the feel of the writing cha...more
The Whisper is an exciting story about an ongoing conflict between two governments, where the mutants are trying to stop the fight that could lead to an all-out war. The governments are separated by “The Wall,” where Mika and Ellie, telepathic twins, unlike
the many other 12 year olds, are being held captive, and have been implanted with high-tech microchips, in order for them to do the government’s bidding. It is headed by the sinister Mal Gorman, who wants them to steal a youth potion and has...more
the many other 12 year olds, are being held captive, and have been implanted with high-tech microchips, in order for them to do the government’s bidding. It is headed by the sinister Mal Gorman, who wants them to steal a youth potion and has...more
The book I read this month was Whisper By Emma Clayton. This book is the sequel to The Roar also by Emma Clayton. In the second book the two main characters are on their way to find out what really is behind the wall being too strongly protected for there not to be a secret behind. During their journey the government leader is trying to find a way to turn back time so he will be young again.so he sends word to the children when there still on the other side of the wall to try to find the “Everli
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Roar had flaws but the overall talent and creativity overcame them. Whispers flaws were just toooo annoying. All the 12 year olds (except for Ruebin) are perfect, with only the best of intentions and never at all concerned with self. And all 27,000 of them are in total agreement on how to save the world. - That's lovely but has Ms Clayton ever met a 12 year old ?
All of the people in power - ALL of them - are uniformly corrupt. It becomes tedious. And it turns out to be not just power hungry, gre...more
All of the people in power - ALL of them - are uniformly corrupt. It becomes tedious. And it turns out to be not just power hungry, gre...more
Whoa! WHOA! WHOA!!! I feel like the core of the earth exploded and drove me up into the sky!!!!
And WHAT??? Kobi had wings? I just wish he'd been more of a main character. Although the Chosen ones were a diverse cast, I felt their characterization could've been more prominent. Also, Mika and Ellie stay very static. That is fine of course, but they are the main characters and leave you with the slightly dynamic Gorman to focus on. He is entertaining but not very serious. The plot and action are...more
And WHAT??? Kobi had wings? I just wish he'd been more of a main character. Although the Chosen ones were a diverse cast, I felt their characterization could've been more prominent. Also, Mika and Ellie stay very static. That is fine of course, but they are the main characters and leave you with the slightly dynamic Gorman to focus on. He is entertaining but not very serious. The plot and action are...more
This sequel to The Roar(2009) starts with an uprising of the implanted children, caused by Ellie and Mika being reunited. These children have been trained by the evil Gorman, a wizened character kept alive by drugs, to be his army, but Mika and a team of mutant children are trying to use the army for their own purpose, which is to overthrow Gorman. When the people of the North find out that there wasn't an animal plague that devastated the South and made it inhabitable, but that the people in th...more
"The Whisper" by Emma Clayton is the sequel that fans of "The Roar" have long awaited. And really, the books need to be read together.
"The Whisper" finishes the adventure that began in "The Roar," when Mika learned that his sister, Ellie, was still alive. Stolen by a corrupt government official, she had been trained and experimented on in a quest to control the world.
This is a future world where most of the population has been sequestered in the north behind walls. They stay there willingly beca...more
"The Whisper" finishes the adventure that began in "The Roar," when Mika learned that his sister, Ellie, was still alive. Stolen by a corrupt government official, she had been trained and experimented on in a quest to control the world.
This is a future world where most of the population has been sequestered in the north behind walls. They stay there willingly beca...more
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First they could hear the Roar. Now they can hear the Whisper. Emma Clayton finishes the story of telepathic twins Mika and Ellie in The Whisper (Scholastic 2012). Now that Mika and Ellie are reunited, their mission turns ever more dangerous. They have discovered that Mal Gorman and the Northern Government have raised an army of children to take back the the lands on the other side of the Wall. Mika and Ellie must pretend to go along while planning to lead the other mutants and the sleeping army...more
Sep 27, 2012
Randy
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science-fiction
The children are the future. Simple words from which the story is born. The future, when the world is broken, has so much potential, and the future imagined within this book, is a wonderful one. Emma Clayton is not the first author to imagine a world filled with the next phase of humanity. she takes this idea of mutated children and builds it into a world where peace can exist, if we, the adults, would only listen to the children we have created.
Mika and Ellie and the others were chosen for the...more
Mika and Ellie and the others were chosen for the...more
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When Mika and Audrey discover The Secret their whole worlds change. They are determined to save the world, but can't figure out how to. They enlist the help of their other mutant friends to help them solve the problem of what to do with the secret. Also, Mika and his twin Sister Ellie are reunited and with this reuniting become the most powerful force on Earth. This team of mutants must solve the problem of how to save the Earth without destroying it. Along the way they face almost indestructibl...more
Mar 04, 2012
Michelle Larson
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4 of 5 stars
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science-fiction,
book-fair-spring-2012
Telepathic twins Mika and Ellie at last are reunited. But if they're ever to free the brainwashed, microchipped child soldiers, they must pretend to play along with the tyrant Mal Gorman's maniacal plan, even as they mind-read his every evil thought. Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the brother and sister have specialized skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these poten...more
Excellent sequel. It took me about a chapter to get back into the pace of the book and remember the storyline but once I did I got completely caught up.
Talk about a creepy future. In Roar, we learned that people were convinced that they needed to live in a specific walled-in area of Europe. Everyone lives in huge moldy and cramped skyrises but are thankful that they were at least safe from the rabid animals that have taken over the rest of the world. People ate horrible processed food cubes and...more
Talk about a creepy future. In Roar, we learned that people were convinced that they needed to live in a specific walled-in area of Europe. Everyone lives in huge moldy and cramped skyrises but are thankful that they were at least safe from the rabid animals that have taken over the rest of the world. People ate horrible processed food cubes and...more
Sep 23, 2012
Lukav
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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read-for-mrs-morgan,
science-fiction
In The Whisper by Emma Clayton, Mika and Ellie, two mutant twins with special powers are held captive by Mal Gorman, the evil Minister for Youth Development of the Northern Government. Though of must of the world believes that the part of the world south of the Wall is a wasteland, a select few know that it is actually a paradise, in which the wealthy few reside, immortal thanks to the brilliance of their scientists. Mal Gorman is determined to become immortal and sends Mika and Ellie on a miss...more
The Roar was a REALLY good book, but sadly, The Whisper was not. The Whisper lacked a good plot, and the plot that it had was boring, and obvious, if you haven't, read The Whisper, you could probably predict the resolution. The main conflict in the story was so easy to resolve, and the main characters didn't have any problems while trying to resolve the main conflict. In my opinion, the theme of this story was kind of childish, and not meant for YA readers.
The Roar was so much better than the wh...more
The Roar was so much better than the wh...more
The Whisper is the sequel to The Roar, and I decided to read this book because I really enjoyed reading The Roar. They are both science fiction books with an interesting plot and a lot of action.
This book is set in a futuristic dystopian world where there are some children that have small mutations that allow them to have special powers. Most of the people mentioned in the book live in a forgotten area called The Shadows, which was built in the darkness, underneath all the people living normally...more
This book is set in a futuristic dystopian world where there are some children that have small mutations that allow them to have special powers. Most of the people mentioned in the book live in a forgotten area called The Shadows, which was built in the darkness, underneath all the people living normally...more
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The second book in The Roar series I found The Whisper to be a satisfying conclusion. Loose ends are tied up nicely and the ending was happy. Overall, I was quite pleased with it. A fast read that deals with the horrible topic of war and greed, The Whisper combines technology and magic in an interesting way. Placed in the hands of its "first-born children" you look at the world through their eyes as they try to stop a terrible war. For me, this story was compelling partially because this could e...more
This book is the sequel to The Roar. Do you remember that question you kept wondering thrroughout The Roar? You were probably wondering if Mika will ever find Ellie. That question wasn't answered in the first book, so it makes you want to read the second. This book was a GREAT second book to The Roar. In this book, I think it is more interesting and more creative. It was written better than The Roar, in my opinion.
The Whisper's main focus is to explain what happens with The Wall. What will ha...more
The Whisper's main focus is to explain what happens with The Wall. What will ha...more
The Whisper is an exciting conclusion to the Roar. I would definitely recommend this book and it's prequel to all Science Fiction Fans.This book was truly amazing as it was written greatly and also had a message in it. The message was about how humans are currently treating the environment. This book in my opinion was not as good as the roar, because certain questions established in The Roar were left incomplete. Also, certain characters like Kobi should have been made more interesting. I found...more
I enjoyed this book better than "The Roar", although it had its flaws (I am an adult non-science fiction reader, but tackled this book at the urging of my 13 year old boy, who quite enjoyed it). The series had a strong pro-environment stance, as well as focused on absolute power corrupting absolutely. While finding the premise of children taking over a majority of the world (including a space station) somewhat farfetched, even for science fiction, futurist fare, I did like how the children ended...more
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As most would guess I picked up The Whisper because I had read the first book, The Roar. And let me say that I thoroughly enjoyed The Roar. It was fun, exciting and mysterious. I may have read it a while ago but I can remember that much. So I was very excited when I happened to find the sequel at a book fair.
And with that I must also say this: The Whisper was very disappointing. It wasn't bad; I want to make that clear. But it wasn't nearly as good as the first one. It lacked many...more
As most would guess I picked up The Whisper because I had read the first book, The Roar. And let me say that I thoroughly enjoyed The Roar. It was fun, exciting and mysterious. I may have read it a while ago but I can remember that much. So I was very excited when I happened to find the sequel at a book fair.
And with that I must also say this: The Whisper was very disappointing. It wasn't bad; I want to make that clear. But it wasn't nearly as good as the first one. It lacked many...more
Mika and Ellie have been reunited and are planning to take Mal Gorman down. With the help of the implanted children's army, they have decided to open the Wall and free their parents from the squalor of living in the North. Both Mal Gorman and his counterpart Raphael Mose will do anything to maintain the status quo but they have underestimated the power of the twins and the Chosen Ones. Unexpected help comes from Grace, the mutant daughter of Mose. I liked this sequel but I wish Puck had had more...more
I was so excited to get this book because I enjoyed The Roar so much.
Ellie and Mika, telepathic twins, are reunited by the evil Gorman who has overdosed on Everlife-9 pills and is now a 13 year old himself. Ellie and Mika are convinced that beyond the wall is a wonderful land full of animals, green plants and fresh food. They are determined to take control the the thousands of sleeping children who Gorman has made his army.
I was a bit disappointed with the shallow dialogue and lack of characte...more
Ellie and Mika, telepathic twins, are reunited by the evil Gorman who has overdosed on Everlife-9 pills and is now a 13 year old himself. Ellie and Mika are convinced that beyond the wall is a wonderful land full of animals, green plants and fresh food. They are determined to take control the the thousands of sleeping children who Gorman has made his army.
I was a bit disappointed with the shallow dialogue and lack of characte...more
I really liked The Roar, partly because of the world-building that Clayton does in that book. The dystopia future of cramming all the poor of the world behind a wall and building forever upwards until sunlight is blotted for the very poor was superbly rendered. The building rebellion, partly to save themselves and partly to recover a link to the natural world they have lost is what drove that book. In The Whisper, the army of children has to perform at last and their efforts to achieve their end...more
The Whisper picks up with Mika and Ellie right when, and where, we left them in Book 1, The Roar. An army of thousands of stolen children, ages 12 and 13, have been trained, made healthy, implanted and lie waiting to be awakened and sent to war. A war fueled and led by Mal Gorman and those in The North who are in power to take back from The South all that has been taken. What will be left when the war is done? What happens to the precious animals...who are in the precious forests they've never s...more
In my huuuggeee dystopian fix last year, I happened to pick up The Roar - and actually enjoyed it, although it may have been targeted towards a younger audience. My only complaints were probably faulted towards the generalizations of the genre - and the cliffhanger.
The Whisper picks up right where The Roar leaves off - Mika is reunited with Ellie, and have both found out the truth about the wall. However, they are forced to return to save their fellow children and the world.
I'm keeping this revi...more
The Whisper picks up right where The Roar leaves off - Mika is reunited with Ellie, and have both found out the truth about the wall. However, they are forced to return to save their fellow children and the world.
I'm keeping this revi...more
I love the idea of these books: a madman farms groups of super-smart kids at arcades around the world to train them into becoming minions for his plans in dominating the world. Or, the world below the Wall, where it's not all sad dead animals like the government has been spewing to the kids all these years, but something else completely. And book one did a great job at setting this up and telling a really readable alternating perspective story of the twins Mika and Ellie as each pick up pieces t...more
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Emma Clayton spent her teens playing in indie bands, digging holes and doodling with comic artists. In her twenties she studied screen writing and became an author. The New York Times called her debut novel, The Roar, “Exciting, thought-provoking, and very hard to put down.” VOYA called the sequel, The Whisper, “[S]cience fiction adventure [that] will get your adrenaline pumping and is not to be m...more
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