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Miss van Stenis
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29/03/2017
In A Place Called Wormwood
The New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci is the writer of the book The Finisher (2014). David Baldacci was born in Virginia, United States, in 1960. The Finisher is one of his most well-known young adults book. This novel came to my attention when I finished reading The Hunger Games, which is a lovely trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. The Finisher could be a reasonable sequel to it, mainly because the stories have the same genres. Besides that, my expectations of this book were very high, because I read multiple positive reviews about The Finisher. This report consists of a synopsis of the story, an analysation of the book and my opinion about it and finally my recommendation.
Wormwood is a small town in the middle of the so called Quag, where no one has ever been. Until Quintin Herms a good friend of Vega Jane leaves town to enter the so called Quag. This is a place where the most terrifying creatures, where
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This is because Baldacci uses self-made words instead of the normal words. For example, ‘wug’ means person and ‘sliver’ means a minute and so on. Despite this, I think that the book is well-written. Mainly because I like how the main character in the book evolves. In the beginning of the book she is shy and obedient, but after a while, when she figures out that everything she first believed in was a lie she changes gradually. ‘’This destroyed everything I had ever believed in, everything I had been taught. This made me wonder what Wormwood really was. And why we were all here’’(Baldacci, 2014). She becomes a rebellious girl who would do everything to get to know the truth. Another aspect of the book I appreciate a lot is that all language spoken in the book is British slang, words like ‘’prat’’, ‘’git’’ and ‘’bloody’’ are used regularly. This makes the book unique to