From the Bookshelf of 2015 Snagged @ The Library Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Jun 26, 2016
Brooke ♥booklife4life♥
rated it
did not like it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
read-in-2016
Basic Info
Format: Hardback
Pages/Length: 203pgs
Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy
Reason For Reading: #10 on YA Top 100
At A Glance
Love Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: No.
Cliff Hanger: eh
Triggers: n/a
Rating: 1.5 stars
Score Sheet
All out of ten
Cover: 7
Plot: 3
Characters: 5
World Building: 3
Flow: 4
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 5
Ending: 4
Total: 3
In Dept
Best Part: It was short
Worst Part: Confusing
Thoughts Had: What the heck.... um... what...
Conclusion
Continuing the Series: No
Recommending: No
Short Review: I h ...more
Saved $7 because I Snagged @ the Library
What a cool book! How did I miss reading that when I was a kid? I especially find it interesting that the author is clearly a Creationist and quotes multiple times from Scripture. Extremely unusual in a sci-fi book. But she makes it clear that beings on any planet all acknowledge a Creator--presumably the same One--and that He alone deserves worship.
Other Biblical truths are just scattered liberally through the story. Delightful. I loved it!
Now...it is, ad ...more
What a cool book! How did I miss reading that when I was a kid? I especially find it interesting that the author is clearly a Creationist and quotes multiple times from Scripture. Extremely unusual in a sci-fi book. But she makes it clear that beings on any planet all acknowledge a Creator--presumably the same One--and that He alone deserves worship.
Other Biblical truths are just scattered liberally through the story. Delightful. I loved it!
Now...it is, ad ...more
Jan 21, 2017
BJ
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
2017,
local-library,
sf-fantasy,
classics,
children-s,
2017-mmd-reading-challenge,
award-winner
First time read of this classic. Loved it! It was quite engrossing. As a Newberry Winner, it was read as part of the MMD 2017 reading challenge.
Another book club reread, although this time we abandoned it because nobody's library had it (wait lists were super long). I liked reading it again after the latest movie; it works as a book very differently.
...more
Oct 27, 2013
Suzanne (Chick with Books) Yester
marked it as to-read
