The White Mountains, John Christopher
Jan. 21st, 2007 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookfrogFinally, the first book in the series.
Will is a year away from his capping, the big ceremony in which the Tripod overlords take away the thirteen year olds and bring them back a while later with shaven heads and mesh caps grown into their scalps. When Will's cousin and best friend is capped, their relationship is suddenly over. The older boy is no longer interested in the same things, and while he is friendly, the connection is no longer there.
This leaves Will quite open to the concept of getting the hell out of there before the same thing happens to him.
The stilted writing I could live with, but the sudden appearance in a strange country of a kid the same age who speaks English and just happens to be a genius with ideas about the technology people used before the tripods showed up (he even made himself a crude pair of glasses) is just a bit much.
Will is a year away from his capping, the big ceremony in which the Tripod overlords take away the thirteen year olds and bring them back a while later with shaven heads and mesh caps grown into their scalps. When Will's cousin and best friend is capped, their relationship is suddenly over. The older boy is no longer interested in the same things, and while he is friendly, the connection is no longer there.
This leaves Will quite open to the concept of getting the hell out of there before the same thing happens to him.
The stilted writing I could live with, but the sudden appearance in a strange country of a kid the same age who speaks English and just happens to be a genius with ideas about the technology people used before the tripods showed up (he even made himself a crude pair of glasses) is just a bit much.
