[LISTENED TO: August 2017] The Prophet of Yonwood
I did not enjoy the second book of Ember much at all. I wasn’t even going to continue with the series, but I was intrigued at this being a (shorter) prequel.
This book came out when I was still working at a public library so I remember the cover quite vividly.
But when I put in the disc I was shocked to realize that the narrator was different! Where was beloved Wendy Dillon? That was disappointing. Worse yet, this book was set in the South so the new narrator, Becky Ann Baker, had a whole lot of Southern to speak to us, which I don’t care for in an audio book.
So there were already two strikes against this. And then it turned out that the story has literally nothing to do with Ember at all. Well, that’s not strictly true, but it is set in America (at an unspecified future date) where global stresses are tense, but in which life goes on.
Set with a backdrop of global war, the United States is up against the “Phalanx Nations,” and unless changes are made, war seems imminent.
Into this we see Nicole (Nickie) Randolph, an eleven-year-old girl visiting Yonwood, NC, with her aunt Crystal. Nickie’s grandfather recently died and Nickie’s mother and aunt want to sell the property, called Greenhaven, and be out of Yonwood. For reasons either unclear or which I don’t remember, Nickie is travelling with her aunt and not her mother, which is a little odd, but whatever. (more…)
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