Book Review |
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Blue Light |
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By
Gary Paulsen |
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Harrison is a 13 year old boy who loves to hike alone in the wilderness. His parents have
allowed him to hike across an old missile range in the desert. One night he sees a flaming
ball of fire shooting over the edge of the canyon wall nearby and he goes to investigate.
A bright, iridescent beam of blue light appears and he falls into it. When he awakens he is in a jungle landscape, surrounded by unfamiliar plants and creatures. He has no idea where he is or how he got there and he has to learn to survive in this alien world until he can find a way home. I will not tell you the ending but I will give you a clue - he is not on an 'alien planet' at all ... Gary Paulsen writes adventure books and he is very good at it. This one is a little different from the others I have read by him because it has some science fiction in it too but it was still very good. He manages to make the writing very suspenseful and engrossing and there were times when I could not put it down because I needed to know what would happen next. Mark is a good character, he is not really a hero and he seems quite ordinary but he did know a lot of things that I think ordinary people would not know and I do not know any 13 year olds who would be allowed to go hiking on their own like that. I liked the ending. It was very exciting and he managed to answer a lot of the questions that the story made me think of but I did want to know if Mark altered things enough. Perhaps he will write a sequel for us? Iestyn Evans 24th July 2000 |
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