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Grade 8 Up–Fans of 16-year-old Ellie Linton, gutsy guerrilla fighter from Marsden's Tomorrow series (Scholastic), will be overjoyed that she's back in an exciting series of her own. The realistic and shocking war-related violence that characterized the earlier titles is just as prevalent here, as Ellie adjusts to postwar life on her family's farm. An uneasy truce exists, and, although enemy soldiers often cross the nearby border to loot residences, the teen is not very concerned. One afternoon while hiking with her adopted, profoundly deaf brother, Gavin, and old pal Homer, they hear gunfire coming from her property. What they find when they arrive home forever changes the young people's lives, forcing them back into a war zone. Ellie must assume adult responsibilities that she never imagined and her very survival depends on outwitting an unscrupulous lawyer bent on getting her land. Marsden realistically portrays life during an uneasy truce. Plot details from the Tomorrow series are frequently mentioned, but this title can easily be read alone. However, readers should also be steered to the previous books, since they provide an exceptional reading experience.–Sharon Rawlins, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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For Ellie Linton, being back on the farm with her parents is what makes the terrible things that happened during the war all worthwhile. It's where she belongs. But the war won't let her go. A devastating tragedy has shattered any hope she ever had to reclaim her life, or herself. It's a new kind of fight—and the enemy isn't always from the other side of the border.
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An Upsetting Disappointment, Jan 20 2009
By Reviewer Aus - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Ellie Chronicles #1: While I Live (Paperback)
I grew up reading John Marsden's books. I was well and truly within the target age range when the Tomorrow series first started in the early Nineties. And recently I reread that series and found I enjoyed it even more as an adult. However, then I came to The Ellie Chronicles.My advice? Avoid it at all costs.
Now, I know John Marsden lives on a farm, and so no doubt much of what he writes is based on personal experience. To that end, I am sure there is a very small portion of society who enjoys reading hundreds of pages of minute detail about how to be a successful cattle farmer. I am just not one of them.
Where was the amazing story I was expecting to dive back into? Why has it been replaced with a book full of information about birthing cattle and renting paddocks?
And then the book well and truly `jumped the shark' for me on page one hundred and fourteen, where Marsden hit rock bottom with his nasty and just plain stupid comments about blonde women.
I was always a little annoyed that the Tomorrow series was drawn out. And out. And out. When an author insists on writing so many books for one story it is bound to lose it, but then I was pleasantly surprised that for the most part the seven books maintained their high standard.
However, towards the end of the series Marsden forced a group of children on us, and our heroes and heroines became little more than babysitters. There was never a more annoying plot point than the introduction of a little boy named Gavin. Yeah, Mr Marsden, I get it. Gavin signifies Ellie's transformation into and adult and a mother figure.
The problem is that I don't enjoy it.
There's that rule in television - don't make your main characters parents because being tied down with children does not make good entertainment.
Unfortunately Marsden seems to have forgotten his target audience in The Ellie Chronicles, and Gavin becomes just about the only person in Ellie's life. For my part, I couldn't care less whether Ellie does a good job of raising a child. I just want the old gang back (and yes, that even means poor Kevin, who Marsden has had a serious bias against since day one).
This book just went on and on, and for the first time in my life I realised reading John Marsden's writing was hard work. He went off on tangents in the middle of dramatic scenes. He started quoting poetry. And yes, there was far too much detail about building fences and rescuing cows.
I'm sorry Mr Marsden, but this book was a disaster.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Satisfying new series., Sep 6 2007
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: While I Live (Hardcover)
John Marsden's WHILE I LIVE creates 'The Ellie Chronicles', continuing the story of a girl who has spent years fighting invaders in her home country, and who is back on her family's farm trying to rebuild her life after years of war. The only problem is - the war isn't really over yet, and when tragedy hits she again finds herself struggling to survive. The same fierce independent spirit displayed in Marsden's 'Tomorrow' series revolving around Ellie and her courageous band of friends continues in this satisfying new series.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice to see Ellie again, April 17 2009
By Evan the Dweezil - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ellie Chronicles #1: While I Live (Paperback)
While I Live starts with a bomb being dropped on Ellie's life, and follows how she fights to keep her home and still uses the skills she learned as a guerilla fighter. While the story is a testament to how life goes on, even after horrible things happen, it also shows that people can't become complacent and go with the flow.This book is not as exciting as the main Tomorrow series, but it's still well written, and Ellie is still an amazing person who knows how to make things happen.
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