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Chargement... The Gryphon Projectpar Carrie Mac
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Among an enormous group of talented YA writers, Mac appears to come out on top as she works her way towards becoming a prolific writer for young people. Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Book Prize, 2010 and an voted an Honor Book by Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year 2010, "The Gryphon Project" is a stunning fantasy tale of budding romances, shifting friendships, and struggle of loving our family despite their and our issues. Recommended for Grades 8-12 level. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Phoenix envies her brother Gryphon. The daredevil and sports hero has all of his recons left: three more chances at life. But she is left with only one, and learns that her beloved brother is responsible for one of her deaths. When Gryphon himself has an accident, the governing body Chrysalis refuses to recon him, deeming his death to be a suicide. His friends' code of silence makes it difficult to find out what happened, but Phoenix is determined to unravel the mystery and save her brother. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I liked the idea a lot- however, I don't feel like Mac explores the dysfunction of the world that she created enough. She spends a lot of time on Phoenix, who is self-absorbed and prejudiced (although part of the story line is how she has to confront this). I think this might be one of the most difficult thing about science-fiction: creating this one to one correspondence between the world building and the plot. The plot needs to have a reason for residing in this world, it needs to allow the author to explore the set of problems posed, exposed, circled and highlighted by this particular vision of the future. In this case, our fear of death, and how that might affect the socioeconomic aspect of our future. The idea of having people alotted more lives than others is extremely Orwellian and worth more time than Mac gives to it. ( )