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Surviving The Fog (2000)

by Stan Morris(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Horror

publisher

Stan Morris

series

Surviving the Fog

review 1: This book starts off really great with a plausible description of what the fog is, before moving on to a good scene of two lead characters discussing how they became cut off by it. However, from there things tend to fall apart. There are just too many issues with the premise from then on. I can accept that one kid would take charge, and perhaps even that the kid in question would be only thirteen, but that only one older teenager would disagree, and then only briefly, isn't.The main problem though is that despite the opening preface, and being the title character, the fog itself is pretty much forgotten for nearly the entire length of the book, with everyone just accepting it for whatever it is.Then there's the character's themselves. Some of those in the camp are nicely d... moreeveloped, but not really enough to care about them. And let's not get started on the adults that eventually turn up all of whom can't seem to wait to hook up with a teenager. Oh and don't get me started on the way the bikers are depicted, or even the US Army for that matter. Still, don't get me wrong, there is a great story nestling somewhere in this book despite all the issues, with continuity and a somewhat flexible time line which oddly has no sense of time about it so could be well worth a read if you enjoy the genres that are covered here.
review 2: “Surviving the Fog” is ostensibly about a group of kids stranded at summer camp who are forced to build a mini-civilization due to some vaguely environmental, vaguely alien end-of-the-world weather phenomenon. Unfortunately, the book is filled predominantly with shallow conversation between the 7 million forgettable characters. There are so many grammatical and spelling errors in this book that I am not sure if it was even edited. The writing-style is choppy to the point that it’s almost robotic in nature, for some reason there are very few contractions. This is a YA book so the simple-speak is understandable, but the way the characters in this book interact with and speak to one another is not at all like a real group of teenagers would. Most of the characters have plain, forgettable names, and there are so many of them that are introduced with a single characteristic such as “an Asian-American girl” that you forget all but 3 or 4 almost immediately. Often, months pass in a single sentence, and even when dynamic events happen the reader is simply told about them (i.e. Luis was murdered) rather than allowed to live them with the characters. The idea for this book was a good one, I was hoping for a modern-day Lord of the Flies-type story, but The Fog is only mentioned a couple of times. Almost no character development and utterly un-engaging, I wanted to quit reading this more than once, but I kept holding out hope that something interesting would happen at the end to wrap up the good idea that had thus far been poorly executed. It didn’t. less

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