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After the Snow (After the Snow #1)
Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.
But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary,...more
But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary,...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
March 27th 2012
by Feiwel & Friends
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i don't know if i can guarantee a great and focused review right now. i might have to revisit this (read: float) at a later date. but i am gonna try.
first and foremost - my three-star ratings are all over the place. know that this book is a super-shiny three-star book, and not one of my "i didn't dislike it enough to hate it" three-star ratings. i mean, if my star ratings do anything in terms of swaying you to read a book, know that i did like this and i do recommend it...with reservations.
other...more
first and foremost - my three-star ratings are all over the place. know that this book is a super-shiny three-star book, and not one of my "i didn't dislike it enough to hate it" three-star ratings. i mean, if my star ratings do anything in terms of swaying you to read a book, know that i did like this and i do recommend it...with reservations.
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I feel neither here nor there about After the Snow.
From literary standpoint, the novel is written skillfully. The book's narrator, 15-year old Willo, a half-wild boy raised to be able to care for himself in a world of almost endless winter (Earth appears to be back to the Ice Age in After the Snow), is not of overly educated stock. He can barely read, he speaks in a dialect (akin to Saba's in Blood Red Road or Todd's in The Knife of Never Letting Go) which is sure to p...more
I feel neither here nor there about After the Snow.
From literary standpoint, the novel is written skillfully. The book's narrator, 15-year old Willo, a half-wild boy raised to be able to care for himself in a world of almost endless winter (Earth appears to be back to the Ice Age in After the Snow), is not of overly educated stock. He can barely read, he speaks in a dialect (akin to Saba's in Blood Red Road or Todd's in The Knife of Never Letting Go) which is sure to p...more
I started After The Snow with high hopes. Post-apocalyptic books often become favorites or mine, thus I was looking forward to a story happening after Global Warming turns our planet into Snowmageddon. Unfortunately, it took me completely off guard with the bizarre writing style, then failed to captivate me with its unusual and slow-moving plot.
Writing in slang/dialect can be done well, look at Blood Red Road for example, which I loved. However, it's a risk to take that will not always be taken...more
Writing in slang/dialect can be done well, look at Blood Red Road for example, which I loved. However, it's a risk to take that will not always be taken...more
Interesting, but not the right book for me. After not being able to gather enough motivation to plunge back into the narration (I had read 115 pages this winter), I have finally decided to put the book behind me. I would recommend it to readers who liked the writing style of The Knife of Never Letting Go and who are into books which display the inner monologue (which employs the language of a mainly oral culture) of a loner, his struggle to survive in harsh dystopian surroundings (a realisticall...more
Morris Award Finalist--deservedly in my opinion.
Kirkus star
PW star
Sunday Times Book of the Week
NY Times Sunday BR Editor's Choice
4.5 stars. Fine teen post-apocalyptic dystopian debut--and far more earthy and believable than most of the teen dystopians these days--about teen boy and trapper Willo's survival after the mysterious disappearance of his father and family from their isolated mountain home. Part Riddley Walker, part The Road, with a flicker more hope thrown in at the end. Great voice, b...more
Kirkus star
PW star
Sunday Times Book of the Week
NY Times Sunday BR Editor's Choice
4.5 stars. Fine teen post-apocalyptic dystopian debut--and far more earthy and believable than most of the teen dystopians these days--about teen boy and trapper Willo's survival after the mysterious disappearance of his father and family from their isolated mountain home. Part Riddley Walker, part The Road, with a flicker more hope thrown in at the end. Great voice, b...more
To begin with, I chose this book from the wonderful Raincoast Books because it reminded me of one of my sister's favourite series: the Chaos Walking Series by Patrick Ness. And guess what? The first page seemed like a twin copy of the plot from the Chaos Walking Series. The main character is a guy with a dog. The book is written in slang/weird dialect. The dog talks to him like Patrick Ness' book. But this dog was a formless dog. It never really been described. Its thought just come into Willo's...more
Jan 14, 2012
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*Sigh* my first DNF book of 2012.
I really, really wanted to like this book. The premise is interesting and I always look forward to reading books where the main character is male. Sadly, I just couldn't finish this book. I really, really couldn't get past the format it was written in. I tried. I tried to read it like 3 times and every time I would get further into the book and just couldn't get into it for the life of me.
Does the fact that I didn't finish the book or that I couldn't get into the...more
I really, really wanted to like this book. The premise is interesting and I always look forward to reading books where the main character is male. Sadly, I just couldn't finish this book. I really, really couldn't get past the format it was written in. I tried. I tried to read it like 3 times and every time I would get further into the book and just couldn't get into it for the life of me.
Does the fact that I didn't finish the book or that I couldn't get into the...more
"Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.
But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary, a refugee from the city, whose father is lost and who is starving to death. The smart thing to do would be to leave he...more
Ορισμένα βιβλία, προορίζονται για να διαβαστούν από έφηβους. Άλλα πάλι, για να διαβαστούν από ενήλικες. Και μπορεί το "Μετά Το Χιόνι" να υπάγεται θεωρητικά στην πρώτη κατηγορία ωστόσο, είναι ένα ανάγνωσμα ξεχωριστό που καλό θα ήταν να διαβαστεί και από τα δύο ηλικιακά target group καθώς, τα μηνύματα που θέλει να περάσει, είναι εξαιρετικά σημαντικά και δοσμένα με έναν τρόπο μοναδικό, χαρακτηρισμένο από λυρικότητα και ευαισθησία, κάτω από το πέπλο της σκληρότητας που εμείς οι άνθρωποι, ξέρουμε πάρ...more
Once you settle into the rhythms of the young hero Willo's speech, this is a very readable tale. Set in a not too distant future, when global warming has paradoxically caused a new ice age, Willo returns from hunting to find his home abandoned, family gone and suspects that his sisters husband has somehow betrayed his family. Willo sets out to find out what has happened, but comes across Mary and her brother Tommy, two children abandoned by their father. Despite his instincts, (Willo wears a dog...more
Mar 15, 2013
Warren-Newport Public Library
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5 of 5 stars
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While reading this book I didn't love it but now that I've finished I realize, I love it.
What makes it tough to get into this book is the unique voice that Crockett gives to Willo, her main character but this is what also makes the story so engaging. Willo's interior mental world is just as strange and alien as the outside world where, maybe climate change, maybe something else has caused a constant winter in the UK. Willo has learned to hunt, forge and live in the wild, isolated with his family...more
What makes it tough to get into this book is the unique voice that Crockett gives to Willo, her main character but this is what also makes the story so engaging. Willo's interior mental world is just as strange and alien as the outside world where, maybe climate change, maybe something else has caused a constant winter in the UK. Willo has learned to hunt, forge and live in the wild, isolated with his family...more
While reading this book I didn't love it but now that I've finished I realize, I love it.
What makes it tough to get into this book is the unique voice that Crockett gives to Willo, her main character but this is what also makes the story so engaging. Willo's interior mental world is just as strange and alien as the outside world where, maybe climate change, maybe something else has caused a constant winter in the UK. Willo has learned to hunt, forge and live in the wild, isolated with his family...more
What makes it tough to get into this book is the unique voice that Crockett gives to Willo, her main character but this is what also makes the story so engaging. Willo's interior mental world is just as strange and alien as the outside world where, maybe climate change, maybe something else has caused a constant winter in the UK. Willo has learned to hunt, forge and live in the wild, isolated with his family...more
My review is going to lean more toward a 2.5 than a 3 because although I liked some parts of the book there were others I simply did not care for. I think this could be recommended to boys or girls who are fond of the outdoors or survival situations. The dialogue was a bit off putting at the beginning, since there is little formal education as you can imagine grammar and annunciation are not really important, but by the end I hardly noticed. In a world where winter last 8-9 months of the year, o...more
Fans of adventure and survival , think Paulsen’s Brian’s Winter, Susanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Will Weaver’s Memory Boy will love this debut novel by S.D. Crockett. The year is 2059 and the world is frozen. Willo has only known that particular world. His father describes the family as a” beacon of hope”. The family is living outside of the Government, surviving on trapping animals and living off of the land.
One day Willo comes back from hunting only to find his family is gone from the...more
Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.
But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary, a refugee from the city, whose father is lost and who is starving to death. The smart thing to do would be to leave her alone...more
But on the way across the mountain, he finds Mary, a refugee from the city, whose father is lost and who is starving to death. The smart thing to do would be to leave her alone...more
Another YA dystopia, though no love triangles here.
Willo was hunting hares on the mountain when his family was taken away by a government truck. Luckily, he's learned lots of survival skills as he grew up out of civilization, in the new ice age that grips Europe (England, I think...), so he is able to gather up some food, coats, and gloves and set off through a blizzard. When he encounters a freezing girl, Mary, who he rescues. They almost get eaten by Stealers (feral humans...super creepy), but...more
Willo was hunting hares on the mountain when his family was taken away by a government truck. Luckily, he's learned lots of survival skills as he grew up out of civilization, in the new ice age that grips Europe (England, I think...), so he is able to gather up some food, coats, and gloves and set off through a blizzard. When he encounters a freezing girl, Mary, who he rescues. They almost get eaten by Stealers (feral humans...super creepy), but...more
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Our fifteen year old hero, Willo, lives in a dystopea that might be similar to the way most people lived during those dark years of European history. Scrabbling to survive, scraping a meager existence off of an unwilling land, with families forming their own little tribes united against all outsiders...and all outsiders posing a threat. Government is shadowy and threatening.
The story takes place in Wales, some time after a new ice age has decimated the population and turned cities into a horror...more
The story takes place in Wales, some time after a new ice age has decimated the population and turned cities into a horror...more
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It really depresses me to give a book a negative review. However, this book depressed me as well as I read it, so After the Snow kind of deserves its negative review. Notice, my reasoning behind disliking this novel is not because of its monotonous nature. It's a longer and more complicated story that I be brief on.
After the Snow is one of those novels that one finds hard to connect to. Willo narrates the story, and has a strange dialect when he speaks. A majori...more
It really depresses me to give a book a negative review. However, this book depressed me as well as I read it, so After the Snow kind of deserves its negative review. Notice, my reasoning behind disliking this novel is not because of its monotonous nature. It's a longer and more complicated story that I be brief on.
After the Snow is one of those novels that one finds hard to connect to. Willo narrates the story, and has a strange dialect when he speaks. A majori...more
I have been sitting here for a while trying to think of a graceful and interesting way to open this review. I’m failing horribly. So, in the interest of saving time (for those of you that like quick easy to read reviews) I’ll just go ahead and start with the obvious:
I did NOT like this book.
For everyone else, let me share with you the synopsis and then tell you why I gave it 1 star. (ouch!)
The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he’s ever known. He l...more
I did NOT like this book.
For everyone else, let me share with you the synopsis and then tell you why I gave it 1 star. (ouch!)
The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he’s ever known. He l...more
Willo has never known electricity or running water, but he and his family manage just fine in the snow-covered wilds North of London. The second ice age arrived before 15 year-old Willo was born, and the greybeards tell stories of the cold and hunger in the city and the brutal government crackdowns in the settlements. Willo’s family has no papers, but never really needed them out there beyond the government’s reach. Until the day that Willo arrives home from setting his hare snares to find an em...more
I had a really hard time getting though the first part of this book. I have to admit after reading probably the first thirty ages I almost put this book down for good. I had a very hard time getting past the writing style and way the main character talked. The book presents a surviival story of 15 years old Willo who found that his family is missing.He starts on a journey to find out where his family is. Along the road Willo meets 12 years old Mary,a little girl in the same situation as him.The...more
PJV Quickie: My first thoughts when picking up this book for review, were, “this sounds like a snowy ‘Blood Red Road.’ I enjoyed ‘Blood Red Road’ so why not?” Wasn’t one of my genius moments. The narration style and poorly flushed out plot sent this one to the DNF pile.
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I should have learned my lesson the first ten or so times I’ve read a book because it “sounded like” another one. Everything else by comparison always leaves me lacking and ‘After the Snow’ joined the ranks of bitter disappo...more
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I should have learned my lesson the first ten or so times I’ve read a book because it “sounded like” another one. Everything else by comparison always leaves me lacking and ‘After the Snow’ joined the ranks of bitter disappo...more
This book was just okay. The main character was charming and had a few insightful comments, but his dialect as the narrator got to be too much. I felt worn out reading it and kept putting the book down to go read something else. I finally got through the book to the end and (view spoiler)...more
Huh. That's really all I have to say after reading this book. I'm not one hundred percent sure what to make of it. I mean, it definitely was not terrible, but after reading it I'm just not sure what to say. I do think that I maybe put a bit too much hope into this book.
I read the synopsis on the back of the book, and I read the first couple of pages, and all I thought was, "This really reminds me of Chaos Walking." Chaos Walking is one of my favourite book series, that I will not delve into too...more
I read the synopsis on the back of the book, and I read the first couple of pages, and all I thought was, "This really reminds me of Chaos Walking." Chaos Walking is one of my favourite book series, that I will not delve into too...more
Title: After the Snow
Author: S.D. Crockett
Target Audience: Young Adult
Pages: 308
Rating: 5/10
Genre: Adventure / Sci-fi fantasy
Person: First
Tense: Present
Blurb (quoted):
“Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.
But on t...more
Author: S.D. Crockett
Target Audience: Young Adult
Pages: 308
Rating: 5/10
Genre: Adventure / Sci-fi fantasy
Person: First
Tense: Present
Blurb (quoted):
“Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.
But on t...more
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My Review: This isn’t going to be an easy review to write, at all. My first impressions of After the Snow was that it sounded like a really unique, dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel that included elements that have not been done already. In this novel’s defense, it is a very unique book, but not in a good way in my opinion. I actually came close to not finishing this book and I struggled to keep reading through most of it. I abso...more
My Review: This isn’t going to be an easy review to write, at all. My first impressions of After the Snow was that it sounded like a really unique, dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel that included elements that have not been done already. In this novel’s defense, it is a very unique book, but not in a good way in my opinion. I actually came close to not finishing this book and I struggled to keep reading through most of it. I abso...more
Review Courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales
Quick & Dirty: After the Snow is difficult to get in to because of the narration style and the reason for what is happening is never fully developed.
Opening Sentence: I’m gonna sit here in my place on the hill behind the house. Waiting. And watching.
The Review:
After the Snow starts when Willo sees his family being taken away in trucks, and he runs off to hide in a cave until they leave. The time period is never clearly stated, but we find out that this tak...more
Quick & Dirty: After the Snow is difficult to get in to because of the narration style and the reason for what is happening is never fully developed.
Opening Sentence: I’m gonna sit here in my place on the hill behind the house. Waiting. And watching.
The Review:
After the Snow starts when Willo sees his family being taken away in trucks, and he runs off to hide in a cave until they leave. The time period is never clearly stated, but we find out that this tak...more
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3.75 out of 5 stars.
I so badly want to give this odd little novel 4 stars, but I just can't do. I'm adhering to the GoodReads' strict system of a four being 'really liked it' as opposed to a three's merely "liked it" for S.D. Crockett's debut. I want to really like After the Snow as a whole but I just can't do it. I love love loved the first Part, but Parts II & III wiped out all the building momentum previously acquired. Giant sections where noth...more
3.75 out of 5 stars.
I so badly want to give this odd little novel 4 stars, but I just can't do. I'm adhering to the GoodReads' strict system of a four being 'really liked it' as opposed to a three's merely "liked it" for S.D. Crockett's debut. I want to really like After the Snow as a whole but I just can't do it. I love love loved the first Part, but Parts II & III wiped out all the building momentum previously acquired. Giant sections where noth...more
When I first started reading this book I thought ‘this is strange, I’m not sure if I’m going to like this.’ But I was very much wrong.
Sophie Crockett’s novel involves a young boy, Willo, who speaks quite unusually compared to the way we speak. To begin with I found it a little hard to read, as I wasn’t use to the way the Willo spoke. But that easily changed after a few chapters of the book when I began to start enjoying the book.
After the Snow is a future waiting to happen. With cold summers and...more
Sophie Crockett’s novel involves a young boy, Willo, who speaks quite unusually compared to the way we speak. To begin with I found it a little hard to read, as I wasn’t use to the way the Willo spoke. But that easily changed after a few chapters of the book when I began to start enjoying the book.
After the Snow is a future waiting to happen. With cold summers and...more
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Sophie D. Crockett was born in 1969. She graduated from London University’s Royal Holloway and Bedford New College with a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies.
On leaving university she travelled to Russia as a timber buyer in the Caucasus Mountains but after the birth of her son in 1996 she returned to the East Coast of Suffolk where she spent five years restoring a derelict Ancient Scheduled Monum...more
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On leaving university she travelled to Russia as a timber buyer in the Caucasus Mountains but after the birth of her son in 1996 she returned to the East Coast of Suffolk where she spent five years restoring a derelict Ancient Scheduled Monum...more
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“I’m gonna sit here in my place on the hill behind the house. Waiting. And watching.
And nothing moving down there.
The valley look pretty bare in the snow. Just the house, gray and lonely down by the river all frozen. I got to think what I’m gonna do now that everyone gone.
But I got my dog head on.
The dog gonna tell me what to do. The dog gonna help me.
The house look proper empty – don’t it, dog?”
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And nothing moving down there.
The valley look pretty bare in the snow. Just the house, gray and lonely down by the river all frozen. I got to think what I’m gonna do now that everyone gone.
But I got my dog head on.
The dog gonna tell me what to do. The dog gonna help me.
The house look proper empty – don’t it, dog?”
Apr 29, 2012 10:19am
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