Original Read 2016
Short, snappy and intriquing. I can't quite believe that Ellie is twenty as she doesn't act twenty years old, more like a teenager, but thats only a minor criticism.
I can't wait to read book 2!!! :-)
Reread 2017
Having come to Ellie Quin from Time Riders, I was expecting something relatively similar. Well, it wasn't. Scarrow's writing remains brilliant and I find myself invested in Ellie's future. I wanted for her to get to New Haven and to succeed in New Haven.
I love the way that Scarrow world builds, creating so many different alien cultures, fashions, languages, worlds and I particularly liked the few short passages dedicated to the dome integrity at Ellie's home and at New Haven. I thought the link was pretty cool.
It is pretty short, with some chapters lasting one page and some lasting five or six, and as a result some secondary characters are pretty one dimensional, especially Ellie's siblings Ted and Shona. My previous criticism stands, and Ellie doesn't act like a twenty year old, more like the teenager that she appears to be. Due to Jez's late introduction, she's not a well developed character yet, not to the same extent as Aaron Goodman (and what a brilliant name that is).
I also really like the Wikipedia style entries that are used occasionally during the course of the book. It's interesting to see how Ellie is so important while she's at the beginning of her 'legend' and to see the comments that are written so many years after the posts and the divergent thoughts about whether Ellie was real or just a legend.
Also, how strange is it that somebody can never have seen snow?
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