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Hello everyone! Long time no blog, and I do feel terrible for this, so I have a few reviews in the works for you all to enjoy! Today's post is focusing on the book Outage, by Ellisa Barr, and I will link the appropriate site and goodreads below for this book.
This book follows Dee (or Maddie), who is staying with her grandfather on his farm whilst her parents go away on a cruise for a week. However, not long after they leave, there is a complete power outage, so the nearby town is enveloped in darkness and chaos ensues there. Her grandfather, who has a pacemaker (unknown to Dee at the time), falls ill and Dee must go to the town to gather supplies for herself and her grandfather, before people click on that this is something that may last longer than overnight. As she does, she bumps in to several characters who, as a reader, you grow to love, and one or two you grow to hate.
This book really highlights the idea of going from being so reliant upon technology (I'm blogging this right now, for the internet world to see for goodness sake), to being reliant upon the land with no technology to aid you. The closest you get to technology after the outage is probably the gas cooker (stove). I found this fascinating and it really made me step back and think how I would cope if this actually happened, and as it turns out, I don't think I could!
Have you read this book? What do you think? I haven't done my usually of posting an in-depth review with spoilers as I don't know anyone else who has read this, and would like to read more in the series before going more in depth with spoiler-style reviews. However, I have mentioned this in a recent upload I have done on Youtube, which can be found here.
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