The Ship
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The Ship
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Melody Grove
About this listen
Oxford Street burned for three weeks; the Regent's Park camps have been bombed. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. He has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape on a ship big enough to save 500 people. Once onboard, as day follows identical day, Lalla's unease grows. Where are they going?
©2015 Antonia Honeywell (P)2015 W F Howes LtdListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
Gave up in this book! Couldn’t bare the negativity.
Who cares Lala?! Just put a sock in it!
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Is the second part coming?
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Would you try another book written by Antonia Honeywell or narrated by Melody Grove?
Won't be trying anything else by the author. The "heroine" was incomprehensibly simple, dense and irritating. The "twists" certainly weren't surprises. An interesting dystopian world, but the book was pointless. There's a lot of brilliant young adult fiction out there; this isn't even good. My teens would be scathing, so won't be suggesting they read this one.Teen fiction I won't be recommending to my teen
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The dystopia future and "the ship" herald promise, but the focus on "Lala", her naivety which borders on the stupid on occasion, and the final nail in the coffin, her "first kiss" is intensly irritating.
I found the pace of the story too slow and resorted to listening at 1.25x speed to try to get further in. Maybe it will appeal to teens who could potentially empathise with Lala, but for me it's one of those very rare things, a book I give up on....
Story has potential, but too much teen anguish.
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The story focuses entirely on the first person narrative of the teenage Lalla, set at some indistinct point in the not-to-distant future where owing to some unknown catastrophe the world has collapsed. As London quickly is deteriorating as the falling government attempts to keep control, Lalla is shepherded onto "the ship" which is a seaborne haven for a fortunate few to escape.
This is ultimately a coming of age story, though Lalla never really strikes as being much more than a naive and foolish teenager, obsessed about returning to land whilst never understanding what she has been shielded from her whole life. Many parts of the book are quite predictable, the ending itself I thought was disappointing. Though make no mistake, this has been an enjoyable book and has been quite diverting. The narration by Melody Grove was a pleasure to listen to.
Dystopia at sea
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Would you try another book written by Antonia Honeywell or narrated by Melody Grove?
I'd not rush to read another by Antonia HoneywellWhat could Antonia Honeywell have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Faster pace and have less whiney characterWhat about Melody Grove’s performance did you like?
Engaging performanceIf this book were a film would you go see it?
NoAny additional comments?
Should (and could have been) a great book. The concept of the story was interesting but the lead charter was a wasted opportunity. Shame.Drags and Moans
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
It is always time well spent, it makes my daily tedious car journey to and from work bearable at worse, joyous at best. This audible adventure fell somewhere in the middle. Loved the first third, then it became a mid-ocean journey in the mind of the main character that for me was tedious. You don't have to be a literary expert to work out the secrets kept from LaLa (the main character) and the outcome was equally predictable. The Narrator however was brilliant.How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Yes. Not entirely sure how so has not to give the game away, but the ending would see LaLa taking (or being enabled to) a different pathWhich character – as performed by Melody Grove – was your favourite?
No one really stood out. LaLa was the main character but has a 16 year old with all the complexities of a teenager, set inside a closeted ship, with a suffocating childhood beforehand her storey was more to do with her emotional baggage with the ship being nothing more than a red herring.Could you see The Ship being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?
No. The danger is that it could be set as a mid-ocean soap. The dystopian background would be lost. If I had to compare it to anything similar for TV, I'd say the Stepford Wives.Any additional comments?
You may love it, if you download I hope you do. I won't revisit. Sorry.Great start, but the SHIP should have docked
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Book for teens
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difficult protagonist
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The world created requires just a bit too much suspension of disbelief, feels contrived rather than well thought out. The plot seems too obvious and the characters unidimensional. To be clear, there are plenty of children's/YA books out there that I still find enjoyable as an adult, so my complaint with the book is not that it is YA, but that I feel it is the kind of YA that will appeal to the tween/teen audience alone. If I hadn't taken advantage of audible's return policy so much lately, I'd be inclined to get my credit back.
YA Fiction
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