We Are the Ants
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Ratings29
Average rating4
From the author to watch ("Kirkus Reviews") of "The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley "comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving. Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn t sure he wants to. After all, life hasn t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend s suicide last year. Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it or let the world and his pain be destroyed forever."
Series
1 primary book2 released booksWe Are the Ants is a 2-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2016 with contributions by Shaun David Hutchinson.
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So, I have very mixed feelings about this book. By themselves, the topics of grief and guilt are well spoken but I think that it sometimes got shallow and I couldn't connect with the characters. I have to say it: Diego felt like a manic pixie dream boy who appeared out of thin air and I would've found it believable that he was an alien tbh. He befriends Henry as if he was his guardian angel and it doesn't sit right with me. Loved some ideas I have to say and I'm glad this changed so many people's life, but it was not the case for me sns
Dévoré en l'espace de deux jours, une histoire touchante emplie de moments difficiles, mais qui sont affrontés sans se voiler la face. Une histoire de solitude, de deuil, d'espoirs, de peur de soi même, de peur de l'engagement, mais aussi de harcèlement, de sentiments, ... Un beau récit adolescent teinté d'enlèvements alien.
“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”
I liked the concept of this book but the central conceit turned out to be just a backdrop for some high school drama. This is not necessarily a bad thing but I couldn't get on with the central characters mopey self-centred attitude so found myself looking forward to reading something else.
