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Dagboek Van Een Klotejaar 2017 (2011)

by Saci Lloyd(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

WPG Uitgevers

series

Carbon Diaries

review 1: I really liked both of the Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017 books. They are based in Britain and some American readers may encounter things they aren't familiar with, but the topic - global warming and resource / water conservation - is universal and so the international nature is really the point. Laura Brown is an appealing character rocketing from her family, to failed boyfriends, to rock and roll star, to university student, to radical protestor all in a matter of pages. I loved the illustrations of playbills, notes, and emails "scotch taped" onto the pages of her diary. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a thought experiment about how climate change and resource rationing might look. A teen is the perfect main character since she had to decide whether to bear... more the consequences or get involved and the price she pays for either response to circumstances.
review 2: This is the sequel to The Carbon Diaries 2015, in which a group of London students copes with a climate-change induced flood that devastates much of the city. In 2017, carbon rationing has been in place for two years, but everything is still a big mess. Lani is trying to maintain a semblance of normal university life while also playing in a punk band. When her boyfriend gets involved with an underground protest movement, Lani's plans for a fantastic summer tour with the Dirty Angels are thrown into flux. The story moves well with regular 'artifacts' -- news clippings, photos, a photocopy of Lani's carbon point card -- adding a bleak measure of Lani's downtrodden reality. Author Saci Lloyd manages to juggle multiple story strands; Lani's believable voice and vulnerability carried this dystopian novel for me. less

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