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‘Six Days’ by Philip Webb
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Synopsis:
Will they find the lost treasure before time runs out? A gripping adventure about a desperate race through the wastelands of future London to find a relic of extraordinary power.
For Cass and Wilbur, life as scavengers is all they’ve ever known — rummaging the ruins of London in search of a precious, powerful relic no one, not even their new Russian masters, has ever seen.
But when Erin and Peyto, two strangers from a faraway place, show up and claim they hold the key to locating the mysterious missing artifact, the treasure hunt takes on a lethal urgency. If the kids don’t find the crucial object in SIX DAYS, their world will come crashing to an end! (Source: Goodreads.com)
My thoughts about the book:
Right at the beginning I‘ve thought to myself ‘oh no, this won’t be something for me’ because it is written very youthfully. And with that I literally mean not only like other YA books, but really a young YA book! I would say that the book is exactly for the recommended age, which is on the threshold of children’s book to YA book. So approximately 12-13 years, if I can properly rank it, and therefore the age information with 12-15 fits quite well.
After I’ve got over the first shock regarding the sloppy writing manner, I must admit, that it was really a nice and thrilling entrance, into this postal-apocalyptic world. I got directly thrown into the life of Cass and her brother Wilbur and there I also got to know her surroundings and her hard fight to survive in a hopelessly appearing world.
I had no idea what this book really is about, before I started to read it, but the further I read, the more I could find out about the background story. I got some answers of the questions, like: “Why it has come to this dystopischen world? Why was there a war with the Russians which they won and which lead the new circumstances, which are now ruling in London, where Cass lives?”
Cass, her brother and her father are scavengers and they have to find something special for the Vlads, the so-called Russians, a certain, very powerful artifact and nobody knows exactly what it looks like or how it works. Only her younger brother Wilbur comes up over and over again with new ideas, where to find the artifact and irritates with his chimeras especially his big sister Cass, because he often goes on his own investigations and then endangers himself with that.
Till one day Cass and Wilbur meets Peyto, and later also Erin, and now Wilbur’s chimeras are all out of a sudden not at all so impossible anymore, but they perhaps even can lead them to the mysterious artifact – which would be great, because without it, this world will be destroyed in the next 6 days.
