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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 1st Hubski Book Club Meeting: Radium Baby

If I could describe this book in one word it'd be "different."

I enjoyed reading this book because as a young adult fiction, there weren't necessarily many literary techniques to point out. In the first few chapters, ears were mentioned a bit. I thought that may have been an important thing to look for in that it may have foreshadowed the fate of some of the characters. But no such thing was true. All in all I thought that this book was an "easy breezy" sort of read.

I felt that this book was going for the Hunger Games type vibe where children are put into life threatening situations. However, I don't know that Radium Baby was as effective because the prize was a title as opposed to increasing the food ration for a district.

What I did most enjoy about this book though, as thenewgreen was saying was how odd this book was. It truly was strange in the same Willy Wonka sense and I wish that I had had that mentality in mind from the get go as I most likely would have enjoyed the book more.