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The Prophet of Yonwood [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Jeanne DuPrau (Author), Becky Ann Baker (Reader)
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Grade 4-8–In this prequel to The City of Ember (2003) and The People of Sparks (2004, both Random), 11-year-old Nickie accompanies her aunt to Yonwood, NC, to help get her great-grandfather's house ready to be sold. Months earlier, a woman in the community named Althea Tower had a vision and collapsed, muttering about fire and disaster. The townspeople interpreted it as a premonition of events since war between the U.S. and the Phalanx Nations is eminent. Althea is hailed as a Prophet and an ambitious Mrs. Beeson appoints herself Althea's interpreter. Soon she's urging everyone to give up sinful things like singing. The townspeople believe that by being virtuous they will build a shield of goodness around themselves and not be harmed. In her effort to be a good person, Nickie falls prey to this collective brainwashing and betrays a friend. She has her own secret. She's hiding a dog in the house. When Mrs. Beeson thinks the Prophet has said no dogs and forces everyone to get rid of them, the child is outraged and confronts the Prophet to demand the truth behind her pronouncements. This novel has a great deal of immediacy in light of current world events. It sharply brings home the idea of people blindly following a belief without questioning it. However, it's really more of a stand-alone title. The plot details that tie it and Ember together are only revealed in the last chapter, entitled What Happened Afterward.–Sharon Rawlins, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton
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Gr. 4--7. Set about 50 years before the previous books in the Embers series, this novel focuses on 11-year-old Nickie, who believes her great-grandfather's old mansion in Yonwood, North Carolina, may be a haven from the city wracked with fear of impending war. Unfortunately, the place isn't exactly idyllic. Nickie's experiences in Yonwood further the idea, established in the previous books, about the role of God in human affairs. Why, for example, would God say one thing to the Prophet of Yonwood and another to a prophet halfway around the world?--a provocative question that is certainly apropos to what is happening in the world today. Sally Estes
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not like the other two books, Nov 23 2007
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M. McDonald (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Prophet of Yonwood (Paperback)
After having read the first 2 books in the Ember series, I was excited knowing that this book was about the time BEFORE Ember. When I started reading it, I was disappointed because the whole novel is about a girl living in a strange town with war all around. There was NO mention of Ember until the very last chaper of the book, when the main character had grown up.

It was a good story, but not what I expected considering the high quality of writing from the first 2 books.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, be advised, this is a prequel., Mar 1 2011
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This review is from: The Prophet of Yonwood (Paperback)
You'd have to keep in mind, this is a prequel. So none of the characters in previous books will be featured in the book. It took me a bit to get used to this, but the main storyline was interesting. I liked Nickie, but there were times when I didn't. Although it wasn't entirely her fault (due to the brainwashing), you'd think at her age (11) she might be able to tell what's right or wrong. So I thought she acted way younger than she is, and was just a little too naive.

There were also times where I couldn't help but feel angry. I couldn't stand Brenda. I wanted to choke her out of the book. It's these kinds of people that blow everything out of proportion and made the situation more dangerous and harmful than it really is. When the incident with the dogs happened this was where I just about had it with her and wanted a bomb to drop on her house.

Despite my intense dislike for this character, I liked how the book shows the reader how this sort of situation can show the worst (and the best) characteristics in individuals. I bothers me a little, that this really has nothing to do with Ember (until you find out much later, near the end of the book) and it may annoy readers as it's oddly placed in the middle of the series, and some might argue that it's not a prequel at all.

The plot was good, although it was slow moving. You're more than halfway through the book and the plot is still crawling. My suggestion, is to skip this book and read the fourth one, then read this one. You won't be missing much anyway. It's not the best I've read from the author but it's readable if one wants to complete the series.
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68 of 78 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps this should have been a stand alone book, Jun 21 2006
By Jonathan Appleseed - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Prophet of Yonwood (Ember, Book 3) (Hardcover)
This is not The City of Ember, nor is it The People of Sparks, both brilliantly inventive novels. At the end, I wondered why it was included in the "Ember" series, because very little in the book actually tied directly into the other two.

I didn't read this with the sense of urgency that I read the other Ember books with, and I believe wholeheartedly that if this had been the first Ember book written, The City of Ember would not have reached the large audience that it did, or been properly recognized as a work of creative genius. This is the problem with writing prequels after the fact: the reader already knows the outcome, and unless you can tell one heck of a story that gives added insight into what is coming next, then the prequel shouldn't be written.

What might have made this story more compelling would have been to take the entire book, shorten it dramatically, make it the first 1/4 to 1/3 of the book, and have the last part of the book tell the story of the actual settling of Ember after the U.S. and the Phalanx Nations (odd name, that) bombed the dickens out of each other. THAT would have grabbed my attention, and made for interesting reading. We know that Ember was peopled, but we don't know how that first generation coped with losing the wind and the sky, so to speak, and those are enormous losses unless you're a mole and prefer living underground.

Or, for that matter, devote maybe three chapters to events leading up to the mass bombing, have the bombing occur, then have 9/10 of the book devoted to the settling of Ember. Forget the prophet. Give the prophet her own book (which this could easily have done simply by excising the final chapter).

As a stand alone book, this does have merit. There are far too many groups/people who are more than willing to follow others, no matter how whacked their ideas might be. And these ideas, which became rules, were insane. No singing, no dogs... For crying out loud, no dogs? And people went along with this? Are they insane? Good question. Is it insanity or just a need to be told what to do? They need someone in some form of authority (it isn't difficult to analogize `the prophet' to any number of people alive and breathing today throughout the world) capable of making people believe it; they follow without question, and with conviction.

I enjoyed the cautionary elements of the story. People believing that there is a terrorist in the woods just because they see something a little off is hysterical - and far too often true. People see what they want to believe, or what others tell them to believe. So an albino bear becomes a terrorist, and everyone's afraid of the woods.

As a cautionary tale this book works extremely well. *Extremely* well. As a book to be included in the Ember series, it fell short. As it's an "Ember book", it needs to be judged as an "Ember book", so instead of a higher rating, three is the best it can get. From me at least.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good on themes, story and style are not as polished as other two books, Jun 6 2006
By Nathan Andersen "film lover, philosophy profe... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Prophet of Yonwood (Ember, Book 3) (Hardcover)
My kids and I enjoyed the first two "Books of Ember" very much. The important themes of each story (community, environment, war) were integrated almost seamlessly with the narrative. We liked this one as well, but found there to be a number of "dead spots" in the story that made it more difficult to get through. If I had to guess I would say that this story was likely written first, but the City of Ember was published first because of the more compelling and novel premise of an underground city. The writing style flows less well and it is not as tightly written as the other two.

On the other hand, the thematic dimensions of this story, if anything, are broader than those of the other two. In both of the other stories the overarching concern was with how an individual can make a difference to events that are happening around her. Here, the question really is what the individual can do in the face of events she is powerless to prevent. This is when people often turn either to faith or despair, and in that context this book deals very well with themes of religion and sacrifice and of tolerance or dogmatism. The fact that no one was "evil" but that their actions could be harmful provided a good opportunity for me and my children to discuss the nature of "evil." (My kids are old enough, also, to see the obvious parallels between the situation depicted in the story and the contemporary situation of the United States, and that led to other important discussions.) Strongly recommended for fans of the other two novels -- which I would recommend reading first even though this one comes first chronologically.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars I paid $17 for this?, Aug 10 2006
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This review is from: The Prophet of Yonwood (Ember, Book 3) (Hardcover)
I was in Borders, in a rush, saw The Prophet of Yonwood on the shelf, saw it was a prequel to The City Of Ember and The People of Sparks-both of which I love, and bought it. I didn't even read the inside to even see what it was about. Even after I got into the car and saw the cheesy list on the inside-"Keep Greenhaven, fall in love, help the world"-I had faith in Jeanne Duprau that she would write a great story. I hate to say she let me down, but she did.

The Prophet of Yonwood starts out interesting-at least, the prolouge is. But it goes steadily down hill from there. Althea Tower, a resident in the small town of Yonwood, has a vision of Armageddon. With a war coming up, people think her senseless mutterings that began after her vision are ways to protect them from the war. But in the end, all they end up doing is making the whole town miserable, yet they still believe they are doing the right thing. An 11 year old girl named Nickie moves to with her aunt to sell her great-granfather's old house, and Nickie gets caught up in events.

I waited the whole book for some mentioning of Ember, but it didn't happen until the last 5 pages, and then only briefly.

This book had no action in it. Nothing happened. I got really excited because I thought there was going to be a war in the book, but there was nothing. Nothing. No description of bombings, fights, etc...I'm normally not a violent person, but after reading about Nickie moaning and groaning and talking and basically doing nothing for 100 pages, I was dying for something to happen.

A lot of the extra things Jeanne Duprau put in the story didn't help the overall part of the plot at all. The last 5 pages were probably the most interesting part, but by then I was so let down by the whole book that I didn't really care. When I had finished the book, the only thing I could think was, "I paid 17 dollars for this?"

Don't waste your money on this book. Wait until it comes out in softcover if you must have it, but if you don't really, REALLY want it, get it at the library.

For everyone's sake, I hope the author's next book will be better.
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