By Scott Westerfeld
Rating: 4.1
“'Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.Ashes ashes, we all fall down.'
Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people...
Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense.
How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree?
Because I ate the kid who made it up.”
My thoughts on the book:
Scott Westerfeld's writing is a gift to the senses.
Unlike some books, where you're tempted to skip the large chunks of description between the relevant pieces of dialogue, The Last Days' descriptions are, quite simply, lavish.
The descriptions transport you right into Scott Westerfeld's kooky, paranormal world, overwhelming your senses and making you feel as if you were standing right alongside his characters.
Despite the tendency of certain characters to act either creepy or relatively annoying at some parts of the book (or a mix of the two), overall the book was an enjoyable mix of modern music making and the enigmatic side of the paranormal.
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