After a harrowing escape from Pemberwick Island, Tucker Pierce and his surviving friends—Tori, Kent, and Olivia—have finally reached the mainland, only to find that no one is left.That’s not their only sickening discovery. Moments before they are attacked by another of the mysterious black planes, they investigate one’s wreck and are horrified to find that it bears the log After a harrowing escape from Pemberwick Island, Tucker Pierce and his surviving friends—Tori, Kent, and Olivia—have finally reached the mainland, only to find that no one is left.That’s not their only sickening discovery. Moments before they are attacked by another of the mysterious black planes, they investigate one’s wreck and are horrified to find that it bears the logo of the U.S. This can only mean one thing: the United States is at war with itself—the deadly technology of the Air Force against the brute force of the Navy’s SYLO unit, which still holds Pemberwick Island and its residents captive.Tucker must lead his friends to safety, but his head is spinning.
Finishing this series was like running a marathon.with finishing more to the point than enjoying the total journey. This book also suffered from the problem of structure. I had the feeling that MacHale just doesn't know when to stop. The ending was a perfect case in point.it went on too fa. Nov 27, 2017. [PDF/ePub Download] sylo eBook - it-book.org di, 14 nov 2017. Sylo Download sylo or read online books in PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, and Mobi Format. Click Download. Download >> Download Sylo dj machale pdf Read Online >> Read Online Sylo dj machale pdf storm dj machale pdf sylo movie sylo book. Aug 03, 2016 Storm: The SYLO Chronicles #2 - Kindle edition by D. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Storm: The SYLO Chronicles #2.
How can the Air Force be perpetuating such genocide against not only its own citizens, but the world? What is SYLO’s role in this, and why did Tucker’s parents betray him by allying with SYLO, whose commander, Captain Granger, killed Tori’s father at point-blank range? And what did his mother mean when she told him to trust no one?Tucker, Tori, and friends set off cross-country on a quest for answers and, for Tucker, vengeance. But as one highway gives way to the next—and one death-defying escape precedes another—Tucker soon realizes that “trust no one” doesn’t just mean the U.S. Part two of a YA trilogyI'd really got hooked from the first book and enjoyed following up with number two. I believe I'll take a hiatus before the next one. I'm a bit lost as to who the retros are.
Are they drug addicts that are exuding mind control, or are they (I think) aliens? There is an obvious love, hate relationship with SYLO. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone, so I'll reserve further opinion of this story line.
Enjoy book one first of course, then this one next. I'd received thi Part two of a YA trilogyI'd really got hooked from the first book and enjoyed following up with number two. I believe I'll take a hiatus before the next one. I'm a bit lost as to who the retros are. Are they drug addicts that are exuding mind control, or are they (I think) aliens? There is an obvious love, hate relationship with SYLO.
I don't want to spoil the book for anyone, so I'll reserve further opinion of this story line. Enjoy book one first of course, then this one next.
I'd received this copy from the Palm Beach Library in eBook download because of my handicap you see. I strongly recommend one gets a kindle to read with as it makes a great tablet as well. They go for $50 right now for a seven inch. But do get the 16G upgrade for a few dollars more. I just want the group to go to Nevada instead of taking all of these side trips. The first side trip they took was a trap. Which kind of tells you that the group should have just gone straight to Nevada.
I also wish that Olivia would just go to Florida if she wants to or find a safe place and leave the group. I had a major issue with the romance going on in this book; does Tucker even care about Tori or not? Olivia is constantly getting in the way between Tori and Tucker and that annoyed me to n I just want the group to go to Nevada instead of taking all of these side trips. The first side trip they took was a trap. Which kind of tells you that the group should have just gone straight to Nevada. I also wish that Olivia would just go to Florida if she wants to or find a safe place and leave the group. I had a major issue with the romance going on in this book; does Tucker even care about Tori or not?
Olivia is constantly getting in the way between Tori and Tucker and that annoyed me to no end. Olivia is supposed to be with Kent and Kent seems to think that Olivia loves him (then again Kent thinks that all girls are into him).Olivia also was adamant about leaving the group with Kent and going to Florida or New York or a safe place,she wanted no part in the whole mission.I also felt that Olivia was using Kent so that she would never be alone and would have someone to travel with, since she was constantly seeking out Tucker.
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Tori made it even worse by confusing Tucker when she seemed to be into Kent instead of him. Throughout the whole story I wished that Tucker would tell Olivia that he is not interested in her and that he would go to Nevada already (Tori's idea) instead of stay in the shelter.
This was a confusing plot to say the least because I never knew who was the good guy and who was the bad guy (I kinda knew who the bad guys were). I also was not that surprised by the fact that one of the members of their group would betray everybody. We picked up from the last cliff hanger of an ending & got going on a new adventure. A lot of interesting ideas & action that was squeezed into a lot of teenage angst.
That's to be expected from a YA novel. There were some parts that really had my suspension of disbelief ready to snap, though.
Still, it wasn't bad until the last quarter or so when it just got silly. And then it ended on another cliff hanger. Oy!I absolutely detest the stupid secret keeping thing. The first book is founde We picked up from the last cliff hanger of an ending & got going on a new adventure. A lot of interesting ideas & action that was squeezed into a lot of teenage angst. That's to be expected from a YA novel. There were some parts that really had my suspension of disbelief ready to snap, though.
Still, it wasn't bad until the last quarter or so when it just got silly. And then it ended on another cliff hanger. Oy!I absolutely detest the stupid secret keeping thing.
The first book is founded on it & I hoped this one would explain why, but instead it pointed out why the secret wouldn't & shouldn't have been kept. And running into the same characters over & over in such diverse settings. Please!I made it through the book so I'm giving it 2 stars, but I'm not sure I'll read the third. Don't think I can take it. It's really late and I just stayed up way past my bedtime because I couldn't put this book down!
My heart is pounding and I have no idea how I'm going to be able to calm down enough to sleep. Wow!In Storm, Tucker, Tori, Kent, and Olivia, along with a new character, Jon, who they meet at the beginning, take off across country traveling from city to city to try to see if anyone's left and to find the truth of SYLO.They get much more than they bargained for! And although a few questions are answere It's really late and I just stayed up way past my bedtime because I couldn't put this book down!
My heart is pounding and I have no idea how I'm going to be able to calm down enough to sleep. Wow!In Storm, Tucker, Tori, Kent, and Olivia, along with a new character, Jon, who they meet at the beginning, take off across country traveling from city to city to try to see if anyone's left and to find the truth of SYLO.They get much more than they bargained for! And although a few questions are answered, the biggest glaring answer is still to come in yet another major cliffhanger! If I would have had to wait for each book to be published, I would have had to throw my book across the room! I'm off to grab Strike, book 3, and I hope the final book since I have no more.Excellent apocalyptic tale!! This review is also posted atWhile SYLO was nothing special, it at least ended on an interesting premise that allowed Storm to improve upon which MacHale delivered in the first novel. Unfortunately, Storm was even worse than SYLO and by the time I reached page 230, I could stomach it no longer.
I hate leaving books unfinished, but I have been battling with Storm for the better part of four days. I kept waiting for Storm to impress, but instead it continue This review is also posted atWhile SYLO was nothing special, it at least ended on an interesting premise that allowed Storm to improve upon which MacHale delivered in the first novel. Unfortunately, Storm was even worse than SYLO and by the time I reached page 230, I could stomach it no longer. I hate leaving books unfinished, but I have been battling with Storm for the better part of four days. I kept waiting for Storm to impress, but instead it continued to go downhill.While the writing and dialogue in SYLO seemed rather juvenile, Storm was even worse.
There are parts of this novel that felt like a ten-year-old wrote the story. Perhaps that comes from adults trying to write young adult stories and overcompensating, but the writing degraded so much that it actually became laughable. The entire fight they have over Boston versus Nevada was absurd as well.
I double checked on a map, but I was pretty sure to start that Boston was north of Nevada anyway (which it is). This part irritated me to no end, and it was far from the only bone I had to pick.The characters never developed, Olivia was so obnoxious I was hoping someone was going to pop her in the face.
And the 'love triangle' between Olivia, Tori and Tucker was just as annoying. Kent and Joni were annoying too, which did not really leave one single likable character in the novel. The entire plot is so far fetched and underdeveloped that it was hard to follow (SYLO, army, navy, air force). And where the heck are all the people? Even though they were on an island for all of SYLO, you still would have thought they would have had an inkling of an idea of what had happened.I tried to enjoy this series, but I couldn't stomach it. It was definitely written for preteens and not for teenagers and older people who enjoy reading in the young adult genre. After the Air Force wipes out of the world’s population, a group of surviving friends are looking for vengeance.
The title of my book is Storm and the author is D.J. I read this book because I read the first book, Sylo, and decided to finish the series.In the book, the characters have just escaped Pemberwick Island, only to find that the cities have been brought to rubble by the mysterious planes with the Air Force logo. The characters are now looking for some revenge against the peopl After the Air Force wipes out ¾ of the world’s population, a group of surviving friends are looking for vengeance. The title of my book is Storm and the author is D.J.
I read this book because I read the first book, Sylo, and decided to finish the series.In the book, the characters have just escaped Pemberwick Island, only to find that the cities have been brought to rubble by the mysterious planes with the Air Force logo. The characters are now looking for some revenge against the people who took their life away. The plot of the book is that, after a group of the military hunt down Tucker, Tori, Olivia, and Kent, they need to get Tori help for the bullet in her arm. They find a hospital with survivors and hear a radio message calling out to the survivors hoping to join in an uprising against the people who killed ¾ of the world’s population.
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It is up to this group of friends to start the rebellion against Sylo and the Air Force. The conflict of this book is that the Air Force has wiped out three-quarters of the world’s population and the survivors want revenge. They come up with a plan to destroy the Air Force’s weaponry with miniaturized C-4. The main character is Tucker Pierce, an average 14 year old boy who is out for vengeance against the Air Force for killing most of the world’s population. Some supporting characters are Tori Sleeper, Kent Berringer, and Olivia.In the end of the book, Tucker and Tori manage to take down the massive, stingray-like plane, and thousands of others.
After that, they head off with Captain Granger to his safehouse on Pemberwick Island. This vengeance plan wasn’t brash, it was cold and calculated. That is why this part is so meaningful, because the effort it took to write this part really paid off in my mind. In conclusion this book made a great read for people who love this genre. It was interesting in most parts and had many twists to keep you entertained. The author said, “I can’t imagine anything being worth the pain and destruction this war has already caused.” This rings true as a question that means so much and speaks across boundaries.
This quote perfectly expresses the main character’s feelings about how the war affected the lives of the world. My favorite part of this book is when Tori and Tucker are trapped inside the massive, stingray-like ship, and have to blow it up before it destroys the entire city of Los Angeles.This book is a good read but the inconsistent pace makes it so one second you’re warp speed and the other at a snail’s pace.
This book failed to intrigue me throughout and still does a mediocre job in the ending.This book is somewhat similar to the apocalyptic story of A Matter of Days. If you are into action-like scenes and a tragic betrayal story, then this book is for you. Having escaped from Pemberwick Island in Sylo, Tucker and his friends are trying to figure out who the good guys are.
Tucker would have said Sylo, but they have killed his best friend and Tori's father. Along with Kent and Olivia, Tucker takes off to Portland, where the group sees the devastation that the black planes from the Air Force have created.
Everyone who was not underground is dead, and whole buildings have been vaporized. In a hospital, they find a doctor and Jon, and hear a weird radi Having escaped from Pemberwick Island in Sylo, Tucker and his friends are trying to figure out who the good guys are. Tucker would have said Sylo, but they have killed his best friend and Tori's father. Along with Kent and Olivia, Tucker takes off to Portland, where the group sees the devastation that the black planes from the Air Force have created.
Everyone who was not underground is dead, and whole buildings have been vaporized. In a hospital, they find a doctor and Jon, and hear a weird radio transmission telling survivors to head to coordinates in Nevada.
At first, the group stocks up and heads to Boston, where they find a group of about 600 people who are trying to have some kind of cohesive civilization. However, it becomes clear after a while that they might not be working on the side of good, so Tucker and his friends take off again. They end up at Ft. Knox, meet some enemies from their past, and eventually head out to the dessert to see if the radio transmission will shed any light on their plight or whether it is a trap. There are lots of good twists and turns in the plot, so I don't want to give them away, but rest assured that there's lots of adventure, chase scenes, paramilitary action, and massive explosions!Strengths: I thought that this was plotted especially well- the pacing, the movement, the character development.
There is a clear lack of black and white, but since finding out which side he should be on is one of Tucker's main objectives, it didn't bother me. (In the way that Artemis Fowl did. Who're the good guys?) There is again some nice romance, lots of good dystopian details (shopping at abandoned Targets and WalMarts, teenagers driving around the country in stolen vehicles), and fun science fiction elements. Best of all, this is a great book for my one reader who only wants to reader dystopian books in the first person. And she reads a book a day.
Hard to keep her in things!Weaknesses: Again, some major deaths. Must say that MacHale does these very sensitively- they are not gratuitous at all and not only are explained well but further the plot. Almost pushing the envelope with the romance but not quite. Just enough detail to make the reader feel very slightly naughty, which is PERFECT.
Storm by D.J. MacHale, the 2nd book in D.J. MacHale's SYLO Series, is about Tucker and his friends’ journey from Maine to Nevada. One the way they will search for survivors, tries to avoid SYLO and “The Retros”, and will face betrayal from one another. I think the author’s main message is that you can’t trust strangers and to choose the path that you truly feel is right. Do not just do what your friends are doing and don’t let anyone persuade you into doing things you do not want to do. The auth Storm by D.J.
MacHale, the 2nd book in D.J. MacHale's SYLO Series, is about Tucker and his friends’ journey from Maine to Nevada.
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One the way they will search for survivors, tries to avoid SYLO and “The Retros”, and will face betrayal from one another. I think the author’s main message is that you can’t trust strangers and to choose the path that you truly feel is right.
Do not just do what your friends are doing and don’t let anyone persuade you into doing things you do not want to do. The author is trying to influence are society by sending us a message to not trust strangers and not to make assumptions.I really liked the book’s theme of never leaving a teammate behind, but the contradicting theme, don’t trust anyone. When Tucker tells all of his friends that they need to travel together and not spit up he shows the theme of contradiction, but when he realizes on of them might be a traitor he goes off on his own, leaving his friends behind. I really liked the characterization of this book.
There were many hints about the characters leading to many different conclusions. For example, Tucker didn’t know if Olivia was a traitor or an ally.
MacHale wrote some hints to help the reader find out if she was a Retro. MacHale wrote about how she was a visitor to Pemberwick Island when the war broke out. Many traitors went to Pemberwick before the start of the war to infiltrate the soon to be SYLO’s headquarters. Then in the end when she takes a bullet for Tucker, her lasts words where “I’m sorry Tucker”. I thought the pace of Storm was much better than SYLO.
It went very fast and it always had you on your toes. There was always a surprise lurking around the corner. Just when you think Tucker and his friends are safe something drastic will happen. Overall, I thought this book lived up to its expectations.
Storm is book two of the SYLO Chronicles and it picks up moments after book one ends. Tucker, Tori, Olivia and Kent have finally escaped Pemberwick Island only to find the mainland blasted and deserted. In this book, the foursome wander through the remnants of the US, finding survivors and trying to solve the mystery of what happened and who are the real enemies. Along the way, they bicker and fight amongst themselves over what their objectives should be and gradually they piece together the eno Storm is book two of the SYLO Chronicles and it picks up moments after book one ends. Tucker, Tori, Olivia and Kent have finally escaped Pemberwick Island only to find the mainland blasted and deserted. In this book, the foursome wander through the remnants of the US, finding survivors and trying to solve the mystery of what happened and who are the real enemies.
Along the way, they bicker and fight amongst themselves over what their objectives should be and gradually they piece together the enormity of what has happened while they were quarantined on the island. A climatic showdown with the bad guys occurs at the end, which raises as many questions as it answers.Fans of Sylo, book one, will definitely want to read this book. It retains the fast action pace of book one and the characters continue to evolve and develop.
Overall, the story was not quite as good as book one for me. Now that the group is on the mainland, the story becomes a somewhat predictable post-apocalyptic road trip that will seem very familiar. But it’s done well and the characters are interesting, particularly Tori. By the end of the book, we learn a little about what is really going on, but not much. We’re still in the dark about a lot of things and as a result we’re left struggling a bit to buy into the premise that most of the world’s population has been eradicated for reasons that are murky at best. Storm is the rare sequel that is even better than the first novel in the series, and even more rare, it is so exciting and suspenseful, it leaves the reader anxious for book 3.
Tucker, and his small gang of escapees from the annihilating battle between the navy and the air force on Pemberwick Island, are on the run. They have no idea what they will find on the mainland, where they are going or what they are going to do, but they are united in their desire for revenge on Sylo, the group they beli Storm is the rare sequel that is even better than the first novel in the series, and even more rare, it is so exciting and suspenseful, it leaves the reader anxious for book 3. Tucker, and his small gang of escapees from the annihilating battle between the navy and the air force on Pemberwick Island, are on the run.
They have no idea what they will find on the mainland, where they are going or what they are going to do, but they are united in their desire for revenge on Sylo, the group they believe is responsible for the deaths of their friends and families. As they travel across the country, surviving near-death contact with the killer drones and finding groups fighting back, they, and the reader, believe some of the questions from book one are answered: What is going on? Who are the bad guys? How do you stop them? But every time a key question seems to be answered, author MacHale, sets up a pivotal event that makes it appear Tucker was deceived again. Even as he decides no one is trustworthy and his goal futile, he persists in his campaign of revenge. The nail-biting crisis and climax will have readers holding their breath.
MacHale-StormI have a lot of the same complaints with this book as I did with Sylo. The intensity was missing, some of the phrasing was awkward and wordy, and the characters just aren't likable enough.Again, this story has such a fantastic concept with these great opportunities to capitalize on it and MacHale seems to miss them completely. When you mix in the botched attempt made to write in a love story.
It's just not that great. The attempt at romance really bothered me. It just doesn D.J. MacHale-StormI have a lot of the same complaints with this book as I did with Sylo. The intensity was missing, some of the phrasing was awkward and wordy, and the characters just aren't likable enough.Again, this story has such a fantastic concept with these great opportunities to capitalize on it and MacHale seems to miss them completely. When you mix in the botched attempt made to write in a love story.
It's just not that great. The attempt at romance really bothered me.
It just doesn’t seem to fit with the story that’s already being told, it doesn’t add good content to the books, and I felt like it was all pretty cringe worthy.I have the give the book credit for the last roughly 90 pages. The intensity picked up and the writing came across much better. It felt so much more authentic, and allowed me to bond with a few of the characters. I know I said it after Sylo and was let down, but maybe there is hope the third book continues in the same vein that Storm ended.For more book reviews from me, click! I don't know why I continue to read these books. I bought the first book thinking it was a one-off and didn't realize it was the first in a series. When I got to the end and found out it was a cliffhanger, I was mildly annoyed.
I didn't even want to bother with the second one even though the plot was vaguely interesting. But I saw it in a book store a while after it came out and figured to read it anyway to maybe find out a bit more. You are given another breadcrumb clue to the main c I don't know why I continue to read these books. I bought the first book thinking it was a one-off and didn't realize it was the first in a series.
When I got to the end and found out it was a cliffhanger, I was mildly annoyed. I didn't even want to bother with the second one even though the plot was vaguely interesting. But I saw it in a book store a while after it came out and figured to read it anyway to maybe find out a bit more. You are given another breadcrumb clue to the main conspiracy.
There is a bit of action. It's okay for a YA novel, but it's not the best out there. The first person narrative is a bit awkward, and it doesn't help that I hate the main character. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to or not, or maybe it's just really how a young male teen would think and maybe that's why I don't like him. At any rate, for some reason I've bought the third book, hoping there might actually be a surprising conclusion and not the obvious one the book is leading toward, but this book has disappointed before and I wouldn't be surprised. I felt like a lot of things about this book didn't really make sense. There were very few answers given.
And it was frustrating that the characters kept getting into difficult situations constantly. At a certain point, it became more like 'really? Rather than adding suspense to the story. And this book definitely suffered from Middle Volume Syndrome. Too long, not enough substance, and the characters kind of started to really grate on me. Particularly Tori and the main character's infatu I felt like a lot of things about this book didn't really make sense.
There were very few answers given. And it was frustrating that the characters kept getting into difficult situations constantly.
At a certain point, it became more like 'really? Rather than adding suspense to the story. And this book definitely suffered from Middle Volume Syndrome. Too long, not enough substance, and the characters kind of started to really grate on me. Particularly Tori and the main character's infatuation with her. The story: It's the US Navy (also known as SYLO) against the 'Retros': an unseen enemy that's taken over the Air Force, obliterated 3/4 of the people on the planet, and started what seems to be a second Civil War.
On their own, with the RETROs' deadly black fighters on their trail, Tucker, Tori, Olivia and Kent start a frantic cross-country journey to find and get their revenge on whoever's behind all this. But first they have to face betrayal from within.June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG-13 The story: It's the US Navy (also known as SYLO) against the 'Retros': an unseen enemy that's taken over the Air Force, obliterated 3/4 of the people on the planet, and started what seems to be a second Civil War. On their own, with the RETROs' deadly black fighters on their trail, Tucker, Tori, Olivia and Kent start a frantic cross-country journey to find and get their revenge on whoever's behind all this. But first they have to face betrayal from within.June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG-13; Violence R; Sexual Content PG; Nudity PG-13; Substance Abuse PG; Magic & the occult G; GLBT content G; adult themes (genocide, murder, death of a close friend) PG-13; overall rating PG-13.Liz's comments: Another second-of-three volume that spends most of its time incrementally moving the story forward without actually coming to a resolution. Still, there's lots going on here that will keep readers (especially boys) engaged, which is something to cheer all by itself!Annotation with spoilers: The story opens with the four Pemberwick Island kids in Portland, Maine, realizing that the entire population of the city has been wiped out. Going to a hospital for supplies, they find a doctor and a young orderly who survived the attack-they were in the basement when it happened, and for some reason, the death ray doesn't penetrate that far down.
By way of the orderly, Jon (who's 3-4 years older than the rest of them) they head a radio broadcast that lets them know survivors are congregating in the desert outside Las Vegas. Torn between seeing what's happened in nearby Boston and heading out directly for the desert, they finally go with the closer location and set out with Jon in tow. Very soon, they're found by a group that claims to be running a survivor's shelter at Faneuil Hall, but it doesn't take long for Tucker to get suspicious about what's going on there-enough so that he and Tori sneak back to their vehicle and follow a bus taking a load of workers to what used to be Fenway Stadium but now has some strange construction going on.Inside the ballpark, they run into the evil Mr. Feit (surprise! Not dead in the attack on Tori's father's rebel group after all) who admits that the group at Faneuil Hall are being fattened up to eventually be fed The Ruby and then used as slave labor to build this strange aluminum, golf-ball shaped structure that's going up on the former baseball field. Luckily for one and all, a SYLO attack comes just after they've gotten this information and destroys the building. The kids head back to Faneuil Hall, rescue Jon, Kent, and Olivia, and head out right in front of an attack by the USAF group (who clearly aren't going to be needing slaves in the near future, and so have no plans to keep feeding them).The kids again decide to go to the desert to find the other survivors, and they start driving, staying in hospitals (which tend to be open, have beds, and even still have running water for showers).
However, at their next overnight location, they find a desperately ill old man who was getting an MRI in the basement when the attack came (his orderly ran off to find his family, leaving the old guy alone). Right before dying, he tells them that his son worked for the military and that the son had called right before the attack, asking his dad to come to Fort Knox KY so he'd be 'safe'. The old man presses his and his wife's wedding rings into Tucker's hands and asks him to deliver them to his son-so of course now, Tucker feels obligated to go south.
Additionally, he thinks there must be something to find out about Fort Knox.And he's right! They get to Fort Knox and discover a veritable graveyard of the almost alien-looking, hi-tech black USAF planes around the Fort - evidently SYLO is under attack as well, and not the bad guys, as the kids originally thought. Tucker comes to realize that his old nemesis, Colonel Granger, is also not only not dead, but is right there inside the Fort. Tucker steals Tori's gun and sneaks out that night, intent on breaking into Fort Knox and assassinating Granger. But when he actually does come across the Colonel, the old guy gives him information that lets him know that, whatever Tucker thinks the Navy/SYLO guys have done, they're fighting the group that has managed to wipe out 3/4 of the world's population.
Among other things, Granger lets him know that it appears one of his group of friends is in fact an infiltrator (which Tucker, in turn, refuses to believe at the moment). Of course, this information is delivered right before the Retros (Granger's name for the group) stages an attack on the base, so Tucker uses the chaos to escape from the Fort, pick up his friends (who are pretty mad at him for sneaking off, especially Tori) and high-tailing it to the desert AT LAST!They are met on the outskirts of Las Vegas by a sort of motorcycle posse that separates and questions them all, before letting them in to see the bosses-aka The Chiefs-of the operation. All told, there are not quite 700 survivors who have made it to Las Vegas and are determined to do something to fight back. The information the kids bring is extremely valuable, but just as The Chiefs are deciding what to do with it, Tucker discovers their traveling companion, Jon Purcell, talking into a cell phone and quite obviously giving out information on their whereabouts and coordinating some kind of attack. Turns out that Jon is a mole, having been recruited by the guys at Faneuil Hall, and they can expect an airstrike soon.
The Chiefs are forced to scramble to come up with a plan that gets everyone out of town while at the same time inflicting some damage on their enemies.Small groups are sent out with individual explosive devices, which they're going to attach to the sea of black USAF planes sitting on the tarmac at no less a location than Area 51. The kids get in, all right, and start setting the charges, when they discover that which had not been seen earlier: the Mother Ship of all bad planes, ten times the size of the regular black fighters, and armed with a weapon that is probably the one that takes out entire buildings (and possibly even cities) in one blow. Just as Tori and Tucker set out to try to sabotage it, they're discovered by guards there, and one of them shoots at Tucker. It's only Olivia's jumping in front of him-sacrificing her life for his-that keeps Tucker in the picture. But Kent is so angry the girl he loves is dead that he wants to kill Tucker in revenge (saying it's Tucker's fault for forcing Olivia to come on the mission). They can't get him to listen and move forward to help them, so they run into the hangar without him.The two T's are able to get inside the plane to plant their final two explosives-but as they're doing so, the two-man crew comes aboard and they take off, obviously heading over to wipe out Las Vegas, and then probably on to do the same thing in Los Angeles.
The kids decide they have to stop it, so T&T attack-only to find out that one of the crewmen is Feit. In the end, they're able to force the plane back down and get off it before it explodes. As it does, something catapults out the top of it, and then the weapon inside acts as an igniter for all the rest of the small planes on the field-and it's only because Kent has come back for them in the dune buggy that they're able to outrun the flames.Soon thereafter, a SYLO chopper lands and out comes Colonel Granger, congratulating and offering to help them. They indignantly refuse, until Tucker's mother also gets off the chopper and begs them to listen to her and hear the entire truth at SYLO's Catalina Island base. The kids finally agree. They're in the air, passing the Western verson of the gigantic silver structure like the one that was destroyed in Fenway Park, when another huge aircraft comes out of it and starts after them.
Guess they didn't finish off the Retros after all.that will have to wait for book three! Really a 3.5, very close to a 4 but not quite that exceptional for me.Such a better book than the first, which is rare for a 2nd book. There were several really engaging scenes that held my attention. And I really liked the characters.
Even Kent grew on me. He is a jerk but I found him to depict a human in a bad situation.Looking forward to the 3rd and answers to questions, specifically about Olivia.One small complaint is the length.
While I genuinely liked it there were some passages about gett Really a 3.5, very close to a 4 but not quite that exceptional for me.Such a better book than the first, which is rare for a 2nd book. There were several really engaging scenes that held my attention. And I really liked the characters. Even Kent grew on me.
He is a jerk but I found him to depict a human in a bad situation.Looking forward to the 3rd and answers to questions, specifically about Olivia.One small complaint is the length. While I genuinely liked it there were some passages about getting supplies and such that were lengthier than necessary. MacHale is a writer, director, executive producer and creator of several popular television series and movies.He was raised in Greenwich, CT and graduated from Greenwich High School. While in school, he had several jobs including collecting eggs at a poultry farm, engraving sports trophies and washing dishes in a steakhouse.in between playing football and running track. Then attended N D.J. MacHale is a writer, director, executive producer and creator of several popular television series and movies.He was raised in Greenwich, CT and graduated from Greenwich High School.
While in school, he had several jobs including collecting eggs at a poultry farm, engraving sports trophies and washing dishes in a steakhouse.in between playing football and running track. Then attended New York University where he received a BFA in film production.His filmmaking career began in New York where he worked as a freelance writer/director, making corporate videos and television commercials. He also taught photography and film production.D.J. Broke into the entertainment business by writing several ABC Afterschool Specials. After moving to Los Angeles, he made the fulltime switch from informational films, to entertainment.
As co-creator of the popular Nickelodeon series: Are You Afraid of the Dark?, he produced all 91 episodes over 8 years. He wrote and directed many of the episodes including the CableAce nominated The Tale of Cutter's Treasure starring Charles S.
He was nominated for a Gemini award for directing The Tale of the Dangerous Soup starring Neve Campbell.D.J. Mauser c96 red 9 serial numbers. Also wrote and directed the movie Tower of Terror for ABC's Wonderful World of Disney which starred Kirsten Dunst and Steve Guttenberg.
The Showtime series Chris Cross was co-created, written and produced by D.J. It received the CableAce award for Best Youth Series.D.J. Co-created and produced the Discovery Kids series Flight 29 Down for which he writes all the episodes and directs several. His work on Flight 29 Down has earned him both Writers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America award nominations.Other notable writing credits include the classic ABC Afterschool Special titled Seasonal Differences; the pilot for the long-running PBS/CBS series Ghostwriter; and the HBO series Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective for which he received a CableAce nomination for writing.In print, D.J.
Has co-written the book The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors, based on his own teleplay and penned the poetic adaptation of the classic Norwegian folk tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon.The book series: Pendragon - Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space marks D.J.' S first turn as a novelist. He plans for this series of Young Adult adventures to span a total of 10 books.D.J. Lives in Southern California with his wife Evangeline and daughter Keaton. They are avid backpackers, scuba divers and skiers. Rounding out the household are a Golden Retriever, Maggie; and a Kitten, Kaboodle.