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The Rule Of Claw (2009)

by John Brindley(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1580136087 (ISBN13: 9781580136082)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Carolrhoda Books

series

The Rule of Claw

review 1: I'm going to raise my hand now I tell you all that I judged this book by it's cover and I am ashamed of myself. My cover isn't quite like this cover. My cover is a hardback and it's gorgeous - no dust jacket, just a green cover with gold writing printed on to it, not yellow like in the image. But here's the cool part. It's a scaly green cover. So with a title like The Rule Of Claw and a scaly green cover, I thought this was a Middle Grade novel about dinosaurs.It's not. In fact it's a very clever, apocalyptic Young Adult novel involving human and animal mutations, religion, evolutions and some seriously nasty gigantic leeches which will literally sucker themselves onto you and not let go until either you or it is dead. It's like the Harry Potter/Voldemort thing. Only gross... more.The kids in the ASP camp use a shorter language than ours but it's easy enough to understand. I liked this attention to detail as the adults left the kids in the camp a long time ago plus there's this freaky evolution thing going on, so it makes sense that their language will have changed over time. Ash is their leader and for most of the book, the main character. Sometimes it switches to a different character.There's a sense of danger running all the way through the book. I never got a sense of safety and Ash was always moving somewhere else or finding herself in terrible situations. Somehow along the way she makes unusual friends of both the Rodents and the Raptors (there's sort of dinosaurs in this). I liked that for once, the idea of the future wasn't a Dystopian society with fancy vehicles and rules. In this, there are no rules. Everything is constantly shifting and changing and there are no leaders, just different groups of animals and humans trying to survive a changing world.I guarantee, if you choose to read this it will be one of the most unusual books you have read. I highly recommend it. It's also a standalone novel, despite having a sequel the sequel features a different main character and is just set in the same world.
review 2: 2.5/5 starsThis book was...weird. Nothing like I expected. It took me a good 200 pages to actually get into the book, and even then I struggled to keep reading. I had no idea what was going on for most of the book, but I think that's the point. You know as much as the teenagers, the Agles, do. You find out what's going on as Ash does. Usually, I enjoy that in a book. It makes you keep reading to figure out what's going on. But here it was so unclear that it backfired. It didn't help that the language was choppy, to mimic the Agle's way of speech, until the Rodents came in. It was really interesting to see the different species try to communicate and it was a great way to show modern day language barriers and how different cultures have different ways of living and speaking and it can start wars. Like how the yellow raptors think nodding your head is an insult and shaking your head is friendly, but the blue raptors think the opposite. I really don't know what to think of this book. In some ways, it was brilliant. A way of showing us how messing with genes can be dangerous, much like in Jurassic Park. The imagery was beautiful, with so many different colors and carnivorous plants and bugs in the jungle. But the characters were boring. I think I felt most for Little Three the Raptor, and you barely see her at all. She doesn't play too big of a part in the story, at least not until the very end. Most of the characters are jerks. I really wanted to punch Jon and most of the kids from the ASP camp and the members of the Ark. No one listened. I guess that's how people really are, especially when emotionally unstable and with access to guns and flame throwers, but it just seemed so exaggerated that it was more annoying than believable. There wasn't a whole lot explained, but I guess that's because there's a sequel, which I will not be reading. I mean, we know a bit of what happened and of Helix's plans and what he has done to the world, but what about why Tori has suddenly gained this new power and what does that mean. How did these two kids not know what getting pregnant meant but knew how to get pregnant? It's the little things that are bothering me. I don't know if it's because I just don't know what to feel about this book or what, but I just had a hard time truly enjoying this book. less

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