The Fallout Author: Visit Amazon's S.A. Bodeen Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0312650116 | Format: PDF
The Fallout Description
From School Library Journal
Gr 7-10-This book picks up in the weeks after the shocking events at the end of The Compound (Feiwel & Friends, 2008) and basically recounts the fallout of the family members' escape from the compound, where they were locked away for six years, and the death of its brilliant but unstable patriarch. Justifiably shell-shocked, most of the Yanakakis clan, believing the world as they knew it has fallen, concentrate on shielding themselves from the intrusive media and survival nuts who want to know their story. Pages are devoted to them settling in to a new home, but nothing much really happens. Eli has been reunited with his twin, who avoided imprisonment at the faked Armageddon, and the narrative reveals what everyone eats and wears, and how they pass the time. Mom is furious that her husband's henchman, Phil, is in charge of YK Industries until the boys become 25, and they go to the company to make a show of interest. Eli randomly picks from many charitable involvements a folder detailing the Progeria Institute's grants and demands a visit to the facility. Lackluster plot elements are thrown in: an adopted older sister's interest in her birth parents; trips to Costco, a Mariner's game, and the aquarium; stomach flu; and people posting online with sightings of them. None is particularly compelling. Eventually a threat of sorts to Eli and two of his siblings results in abduction and some discoveries, but few readers will experience shock or dismay on the characters' behalf.-Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GAα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journal. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
In this follow-up to The Compound (2008), Eli, his mother, and his siblings have been reunited with his twin and their grandmother after spending 2,000 days believing their world had been obliterated by nuclear attack. It was a lie, one of many told by Eli’s brilliant but amoral father. Now, while trying to deal with the fallout (so to speak), Eli comes to believe that the horrors may not be over and that his father is still alive and hatching his next plan to control both his family and the world. Eli’s first-person narration increases the immediacy of this standalone psychological thriller. Though the prose can be didactic, the emotion and pacing are realistic, and Bodeen does a fine job conveying the characters’ paranoia and readjustment while living in the public eye after a sensational media event. Hints that the mad-scientist father is still on the loose, and enough action to offset the introspection, should make this appealing for a wide readership. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch
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- Age Range: 12 - 18 years
- Grade Level: 7 and up
- Series: Compound (Book 2)
- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Feiwel & Friends; First Edition edition (September 24, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312650116
- ISBN-13: 978-0312650117
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Caution: I don't know how yet, but I plan on ending this with the word "sudoku" (a friend bet me). Anyway, you don't need to have read THE COMPOUND to suss out the key elements of that narrative. In THE FALLOUT, her sequel to The Compound, writer S.A. Bodeen catches you up with what had happened before. This sequel tracks the Yanakakis family's reintegration into society. After six years of inhabiting an underground bomb shelter and believing that the world above had been devastated by a nuclear holocaust (all this a warped experiment imposed by his insane tech-visionary father), 15-year-old Eli Yanakakis is understandably experiencing some post-traumatic stuff. You can't even blame him for being uber-paranoid, what with the paparazzi always waiting to pounce and the Yanakakis family constantly being the hot button topic on the doomsday survivalists' social media. And, disturbingly, the massive corporate empire Eli and his twin brother, Eddy, inherited is still being run by their father's right hand man, never mind that this guy was complicit in what went down in the compound. Too, Eli nurses this nagging sense that his father is still alive, still biding his time.
For huge chunks of the book S.A. Bodeen lulls you with passages of the Yanakakis family's jut living their everyday lives, and I found myself drawn into it. First, you should know that the Yanakakises are fabulously wealthy and that their harrowing ordeal has accorded them an even more elevated celebutante status. I'm not into much of the reality shows out there, but I can see the lure of it.
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