Overall, it’s a fast-paced, intriguing story that will likely appeal to young and older adults alike and keep them turning pages.Ī brisk, thrilling novel of humankind versus nature.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him. Flora’s feelings of being an outsider due to her accident and her family situation feel genuine, and young readers will certainly be able to relate to her anxieties. The story delves into classic SF themes regarding environmentalism and humans’ abuse of the planet’s resources, but it feels very original at the same time. Over the course of this YA novel, Fogelberg presents an exciting story not only of teens trying to escape the trees themselves, but also townspeople intent on pinning crimes on them.
Soon, Flora and the boys must hide from an angry mob, and she starts to suspect that Carl knows more than he’s letting on-and the more she learns about the trees, the more she begins to understand their goal.
Flora, Carl, and Aaron are sure the trees are attacking humans after marking them, but no one believes them. Each boys had an X scratched into his forehead, and then Carl receives a similar mark while running through the woods. Soon, the other two boys are found dead in the woods, twisted into tree branches. The next morning, Flora sees one of the boys that attacked her the night before, hanging from the very tree she and Fauna had climbed before lightning struck. Three boys there aggressively demand to see Flora’s scars and rip her T-shirt from her body before Carl and his friend Aaron rescue her. However, her best friend, Carl Nielsen, convinces her to attend an end-of-the-school-year party to celebrate summer. In addition, Flora still struggles with the fact that their scientist father went missing years ago. She has strange scars on her skin, but her 14-year-old sister, Fauna, is in a catatonic state. In Derwyn, Pennsylvania, high school junior Flora Reed has been an outcast for a year, ever since she and her sister were struck by lightning. In Fogelberg’s YA fantasy series starter, trees begin attacking and killing humans, and three teens investigate why.
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