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Land Stranded Book 1 eBook Theresa Shaver

This is a really good book and I look forward to future works by this author.
I like how the story is told from the angle of teenagers.
It is very believable, has great formatting and grammar, and kept my interest from the beginning.
The various emotions and issues the characters went through in the heart of the crisis (i.e., "I can't believe I'm having boy trouble NOW") were really heartfelt and added a human interest touch to the overall drama of the apocalypse.
I can't wait for a sequel!


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Land Stranded Book 1 eBook Theresa Shaver Reviews

This book was the epitome of ridiculous. A bunch of teens go to Disneyland from Canada and a nuclear bomb is dropped which causes an EMP. That’s not the ridiculous part. The ridiculous part is that in three seconds everyone starts freaking out. One of the teachers DIES, the teachers left start calling students expletives, the teachers are telling each other to shut up, all the adults somehow have thousands of dollars on their person, and the teachers calmly let a bunch of kids go off on their own because they’re “leaders.” Everyone is convinced that a group of sixteen year olds can make it from Disneyland to Canada on their own. What? Why? The whole scenario was absolutely ludicrous and it was painful to read. It takes one day before everyone just starts looting and gangs start to rise and all manner of order is one-hundred percent gone. Also, “five go by land, five go by sea.” If two groups are mentioned, why doesn’t the book ever follow the group that goes by sea? I would have liked to know what happened to them. (Further research shows that we find out in the next book.)

The characters. Each one of the characters were bland and annoying stereotypes. And almost all of them had alcoholic parents. Why? There was the goth girl (Dara), “Mr. Responsibility” (Quinn) (yes, they said that), the bad boy (Cooper), and the class clown/jokester (Josh). They even managed to create a love triangle. You know how in a lot of teenaged movies, adults play the teenagers? That’s what it was like. Only the adults are in clothes that are too small and they have stereotypical voices and sometimes forget that they’re teens and use their natural adult tone.

The character development didn’t exist. Well, that’s not true. Ah, actually wait, yes it is. The teens went from regular sixteen year olds to bad-to-the-bone killing machines that didn’t mind seeing dead people or killing. Their train of thought was “YIKES! Someone’s dead. Oh well. We’re going to see tons of dead people, might as well get used to it eh?” or “WOW! I just killed someone. BUT THAT’S OKAY. WE HAVE TO SURVIVE.” Not a single teen’s hand shook whenever they killed their first person. Instead it was almost like “I’m a man/woman now.” and they were ready to shake hands and throw a party. Is this what we expect from our teens?

Their journey was completely unrealistic. They’re given a huge sum of money, I’m talking at least three thousand dollars. Then they manage to get a bunch of supplies and buy themselves bikes. While they’re buying bikes, the owner of the store is like “Okay kids, lock up when you’re done. I’m going home. I trust you.” What? Haha okay. The amount of just-in-the-nick-of-time coincidences they were given was crazy. Eventually they get working trucks. Not to mention, the bad guys they encounter were like this “HELLO. THERE ARE WOMEN HERE? WOW. IT’S TIME FOR RAPE. MY NAME IS…UH…SKULL. YEAH. I’M THE LEADER. TAKE ‘EM HOME, SNAKE AND RAT.” (First of all, the names, seriously? Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of men than to encounter a man named Rat, am I right?) Every issue they ever faced was quickly taken care of and I was never worried.

I think the worst part was the ending. They somehow get across the border by threatening a guard (who, let’s be honest, didn’t have much going for him anyway) and the other guards are totally chill that Alex yelled at and put a gun between their comrade’s eyes. Then the guards listen to them on how to make sure “no hungry Americans get across the border” because they only want Canadians to cross. What’s their mighty foolproof plan? Ask them Canadian trivia questions “What party did you vote for in the last election?” “Democrat.” “Wrong, not in Canada, back of the line.” (Yes, that actually happened.)

Somehow by the end of the book, they were celebrities going by the name (that Josh had provided) “The Maple Leaf Mafia.” Yeah okay.
There are great YA novels out there that can pull off an apocalypse, dystopia, or TEOTWAWKI so well that it crosses all age barriers. This is not one.

'Land' follows a group of Canadian teenagers, visiting California when an EMP sends North America back to the Stone Age, on their journey home. For a novel about a trip through a drastically changed world, there was no tension at all. By the most amazing luck the teens have a grown-up with them that, when things go bad at the very beginning of the book, turns out to be a Prepper. This woman instantly knows what's going on, tells the teens that government can't help them now, and sends them on their merry way. You have to admire the author for skipping any obstacle to getting straight to the non-existent action.

I never felt at any point that the teens were in any real danger. First off the bat, they manage to acquire a ton of supplies. They bike for miles without much of a problem, trailing carriers that are loaded with food and equipment, even though there was not much indicated about the characters that showed they could handle such punishing travel. A couple of days into their trip the teens discuss how hard the next part will be to traverse by bike. Voila! The next day they come across a dying old man who tells them to take his vehicles, which still run due to their lack of electronics. Of course the old man has tons of food for them to take, too. They get captured by a biker gang. Of course they all escape, kill some bad guys, rescue some kids, burn down a drug warehouse, get the kids back to their town and then kill some more bad guys. Right in front of the sheriff of the town, who evidently was unable to pull his gun and join in the killing spree. One of the teens gets shot, later in the story. Will he pull through? Do you even need me to answer that? I seriously lost it when the teens make it to the Canadian border, where they have a run-in with an incompetent guard. Of course the teens get the guard to step down, get cheered by the other guards, and then start telling the border guards how to process the mass of citizens waiting to cross into Canada.

Is there nothing this group can't do? And let's not even start on the casual misogyny. The girls in the group do almost all of the cooking, and spend their time in the motor home they got from the old man baking. The guys give orders, plan the trip, and fix vehicles. Wow.

When more detail is is told about how potatoes are cooked over a fire than how badly things are falling apart, that's a sure sign to pass on this book.
This is a really good book and I look forward to future works by this author.
I like how the story is told from the angle of teenagers.
It is very believable, has great formatting and grammar, and kept my interest from the beginning.
The various emotions and issues the characters went through in the heart of the crisis (i.e., "I can't believe I'm having boy trouble NOW") were really heartfelt and added a human interest touch to the overall drama of the apocalypse.
I can't wait for a sequel!