As I already told you once, I've read a book preview. For the most part that happened on the beaches of Antalya, which is why I could not just write a review. But I will make up for here in detail. ^ ^
The details: Maxime Chattam
Alterra - The community of Three
Publisher Pan
€ 16.95
The first impression:
When I had opened the package, full of anticipation with the book, I was thrilled. I like the design of the cover really very good and appealing. I would have definitely pulled in a bookstore off the shelf. It is very decorative, thus making good in the home bookshelf, and has a reference to the content of the book. This was supposed to be really the case with every book, but alas, unfortunately it is often not so. The design picks up on every case, many details from the story. What I at first glancing at this book also immediately noticed: It is divisible into three parts and 49 chapters. This makes the book clear and a very nice extra, as I think the design is the beginning of each new part, but also a new chapter.
History:
Basically everything begins with a storm, but no ordinary ones. Because after only children are left. In the only surviving adults are aggressive mutations that prey on children. Nature, too, is no longer what it once was. Plants and animals are also mutated, such as unusually large, and their habitats have reclaimed. This means that the children in an already dangerous environment also have to make do without technology. The protagonist, Matt and his friend Tobias after an accident on a group of children who call themselves Pan and are distributed throughout the country. There they meet Ambre and together they form the community of the three mentioned in the title. You try to find out what happened to the storm and go to the bottom of new phenomena, such as the alteration of a particularly intense distinct talent that some children have developed. To date the Pan-communities keep using so-called wide-walkers, some young people who travel from community to community and exchange as the latest information. These are but a very dangerous undertaking, for not only the changed nature is a risk, it also applies to all sorts of weird shapes.
The opinion:
I found the idea of the book great. have to live in a world of children and young people with no adults and technology, while starting from scratch. The idea that nature takes its revenge, or destroyed as a defensive reaction to what has harmed her and now the survivors a chance for a fresh start there, like it very much. However, I am ambivalent about some elements of the plot, because I do not understand how they fit into the overall picture. Because I think especially to the Torvaderon. Perhaps it is still not clear to me, because this book is just the first of a series, but I find this totally unnecessary character and have the feeling that he was introduced only for the reason Matt to make it special among all children and young people and the three friends at the end of the book give a reason for leaving their pan-community, as Matt so completely out of this being yet for some reason is being pursued. This is really a point that bothers me. However, I love the scientific mind game within the story. could attempt to explain the storm as a defensive reaction of nature and also the development of alterations I find fascinating and I think it will remain the focus, rather than magic from nowhere a strange creature, yet its significance in the first volume really clear is. But as we move even in the fantasy genre, which had to be done well enough.
As for the writing style of the author, I must say that this is not necessarily been one of the books, the socks off me so cut, has that I could not put a second off his hand. This could be because among other things, that you can not partially seen exactly what the story intended to lead ultimately. But sometimes it seems a bit written into the blue, I think, that must not, even if it is the beginning of a series. However, it was nevertheless a pleasant pastime was to read easily and also included some points on which to make even more thoughts after the event. If one is not looking for something special, I can recommend the book entirely.
