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Jeff Hirsch's stunning debut is now in paperback!
In the aftermath of a war, America’s landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade. But when Stephen’s grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his way to Settler’s Landing, a community that seems too good to be true. Then Stephen meets strong, defiant, mischievous Jenny, who refuses to accept things as they are. And when they play a prank that goes horribly wrong, chaos erupts, and they find themselves in the midst of a battle that will change Settler’s Landing--and their lives--forever.
- Sales Rank: #56776 in Books
- Published on: 2012-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.00" w x .75" l, .53 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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Praise for THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE
"THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE hits disturbingly close to home, vividly depicting a world that has nose-dived into a futuristic nightmare. . . . An excellent, taut debut novel." --Suzanne Collins, author of THE HUNGER GAMES
" A gripping survival drama." --USA TODAY
"Sure to be a hit among fans of dystopias." --BOOKLIST
"An impressive story with strong characters." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
About the Author
Jeff Hirsch graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and is the USA TODAY bestselling author of THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE and MAGISTERIUM. He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife. Visit him online at www.jeff-hirsch.com.
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From The Eleventh Plague
Dad turned all around, sheets of water coursing off his head and shoulders. I wanted to scream that it was pointless, that we needed to keep running, but then there was another crack and a flash of lightning, and for a second it seemed like there might be a ridge of some kind out ahead of us. Dad grabbed my elbow and pulled us toward it.
"Come on! Maybe there's shelter!"
By then, the ground had turned to a slurry of mud and rocks and wrecked grass. Every few steps my feet would sink deep into it and I'd have to pull myself out one foot at a time, terrified that I'd lose sight of Dad and be lost out in that gray nothing, alone forever.
As we ran, the ridge ahead of us became more and more solid, a great looming black wall. I prayed for a cave, but even a good notch in the rock wall would have been enough to get us out of the rain and hide until morning. We were only fifty feet or so from it when Dad came to an abrupt halt.
"Why are we stopping?!"
Dad didn't say anything, he simply pointed.
Between us and the ridge there was an immense gash in the earth, a gorge some thirty feet across and another thirty deep, with steep, muddy walls on our side and the ridge on the opposite. A boiling mess of muddy water, tree stumps, and trash raged at the bottom.
Dad searched left and right for a crossing, but there wasn't any. His shoulders slumped. Even through the curtain of rain I could see the sunken hollow of his eyes, deep red-lined pits that sat in skin as gray as the air around us.
"I'm sorry, Stephen. I swear to God, I'm so sorry."
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75 of 82 people found the following review helpful.
Finished this in one sitting
By Jennifer L. Rinehart
It was the front cover blurb from Suzanne Collins that caught my eye. I've read the Hunger Games three times and if Suzanne says this book is 'excellent' then it at least deserved a second look.
I grabbed it along with a copy of Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep (which is super duper, btw) and found a place to sit down (which is a rare thing at Barnes and Noble nowadays) and started to read the first chapter.
From the first page I was drawn in. I don't like to make comparisons to other books, it's hard to do it well and people always squawk about it if the book compared is one they either love or hate, but Stephen, the main character reminds me a lot of Katniss from the Hunger Games. There's also a bit of Rose (from Vampire Academy), Marcus (from Little Brother and Nailer (from Shipbreaker). Like the characters from these other books, Stephen is a young person forced to deal with terrifyingly mature situations that could lead to dire situations for himself and others. How he rises to the challenge is what kept me reading through lunch then dinner without stopping.
Stephen's world is far different than the one we know now. His family are scavengers, think of the dead and rotting world in movies like Mad Max or Logan's Run and you wouldn't be far off. There was a war with China, then a plague and what's left of America lives in small settlements scattered throughout the country.
His small family are scavengers. His father, his brutish grandfather and Stephen roam what's left of the cities for tradeable items, something like a can of pears could allow them to have food and shelter for a week. But scavengers are not the only ones wandering the cities.
There are ex-military bandits, chinese troops and slavers and a whole part of the country is off limits, though his father sometimes talks about finding a place to settle down, raise crops, etc. But that would mean striking out into undiscovered country and leaving the trail with it's semblance of safety.
It is within this hopeless situation that everything turns from bad to worse, pretty much from the first page with a funeral. I wont tell you who dies, but the funeral seems to be the beginning of a chain of decisions, some good and some so completely bad, you'll wish you could step into the book to advise Stephen.
There's a lot of room for heroics, but Stephen is a reluctant hero, which is pretty much my favorite kind, kicking butt and taking names is for movies, Stephen seemed real to me, he didn't want to get involved in bad situations but sometimes you can't help it. Best of all, Stephen is an aware character, what I mean is, he knows he's making decisions that could be dreadful and he does it anyways. I guess I like that too, his decisiveness is refreshing.
My only complaint with the book is that it was kinda fast, before I knew it and was ready the book was done. I'm a fan of quick reads, but I can't help thinking there could have been a little more, more description, more worldbuilding, more story.
Oh well, guess I could read it again.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
I've read better but I've also read worse
By Louise Llama
Jeff Hirsch's The Eleventh Plague starts out in post war/post plague Northern America with a teenage boy and his father burying the grandfather who had succumbed to an illness. The story starts out years after life as humans knew it changed due to the war (China) and an unleashed plague. These events are referred to in the story as The Collapse. Like in most apocolyptic stories survivors of The Collapse live a nomadic life struggling to survive. The father and son come across an old wrecked plane and decide to see if there is anything of value in it. They look around for awhile but soon it started to rain and a band of "Slavers" (ex-military or overall scumbags who traveled the land capturing survivors to sell in the trade markets or to plantation owners or even the Chinese who were now running the show). They escape from the Slavers and are on the run from them when the father falls in a gorge and is seriously injured. The father and son are discovered by another group of people who are NOT slavers and these people decide to help them. The father is unconscious at this point and he and the son are taken to a village where life seems to not have been too affected by war or plague except for the lack of electricity. The story continues on with the trials of being in this village and focuses on the teenage boy's struggles to live with other people and abide by their ways.
I have read A LOT of these types of postwar, disaster, apocolyptic novels and this one really didn't gift me with anything new to the genre. There wasn't really enough detail about the war and "plague" (and since the title is The Eleventh Plague) you would think as a reader that you would learn how this plague started and what it exactly did to wipe out a great number of the population. There are also so many holes in the story. LIke why, when the Chinese invaded, they stayed to one side of the country allowing former Americans to live and roam without being rounded up? I understand this was written for YA but I have been reading a lot of YA lately (I am 44) and found them on a much higher level of intellect and detail (The Hunger Games come to mind) than this. If you are new to this genre or if you are a YA then by all means, I recommend this book. If you are a seasoned fan of this genre than I would say skip it. Nothing new here to see folks.
33 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
So-so
By Tina
I was a little disappointed in this one. It starts out with Stephen roaming the country with his Dad and Grandpa, salvaging what they could, to survive, after a war, the plague and finally the Collapse. Suddenly they get to Settler's Landing, this almost-to-good-to-be true town where all the events that ensue turn the story into something a little too simplistic for me.
After living the life he did, with his mean old coot of a grandpa, I would have thought that Stephen would be more mature than he was. The prank that was played by Jenny and Stephen was silly and carried way to much of a bearing on the story, after all they went through. The author simply lost me here.
I just found that the families in the story reverted back to their old ways a little too easily. They let the "money" people run the show, and they still followed, just as before, still pushing for war. Basically, nothing changed "after the war" and no lessons were learned.
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