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    The Pack

    By Tom Pow

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    In Tom Pow's The Pack, Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. Haunted by memories and abandoned by society, they have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend. It is a dangerous journey--violent gangs walk the streets, and corrupt warlords viciously guard their territories. But it is also a journey of discovery...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9781466874534
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    Tom Pow

    Tom Pow is an award-winning writer and poet. From 2001 to 2003 he was the first writer in residence at the Edinburgh International Books Festival and he was Writer in Residence at the National Library of Scotland in 2013. His books for children in include Callum’s Big Day and Who Is The World For?, which won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book of the Year (2001).

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      Just plain didn't like this one. I thought it read like a first draft, so many sentences seem disjointed and incorrectly constructed. And there is rapid overuse of the word "for" at the beginning of sentences. "For of course no Zone could contain his appetite for space.", "For when the trucks run out," etc. It's as though the author wants them to have some dramatic impact, but the overuse prevents this from happening. Maybe rapid is the wrong word, but it's one of those things that you start to notice and then every time it happens again you cringe. It's one of those stories that doesn't really explain itself. Something has happened to the world, there are Zones and Invisible Cities and people shunned by society; but no real reason as to why. There is very little world building but things are obviously immensely different. The characters don't seem to go by their real names and, again, there's no real explanation as to why (except for Skreech, who is feigning life as a boy), but everyone else seems to get this big end of chapter moment when they reveal their name. Again, it's never explained why people are like this. Why do they hide their names or give themselves other names? Why is that such a big deal? Another unexplained plot-line is that Bradley can talk to his dog, and I'm still yet to figure out if this is just Bradley thinking his dog is replying or if they do have some sort of telepathy going on, it's not really explained. Or if it is, I missed it. There's a lot of boring and lengthy discussion between characters that just seem to stop the narrative in its tracks.The novel is interspersed with chapters of random flashbacks that immediately stop the action of the narrative. Our protagonist, Bradley, and his dog have been captured by this street gang of dog fighting kids led by a maniac, and we break away for pages and pages about Bradley's life with his family before whatever happened to the world happened. They are explained as Bradley's dreams, but a character experiencing a dream does not take up an entire chapter. Ditto for storytelling. As in characters in the narrative sitting down to listen to an Old Woman tell them stories. They don't do this once, they do it often. Again, it slows the story to a crawl.It also relies on one of my least favourite narrative tropes, where the weak girl in the gang is the one who gets kidnapped and the boy has to save her. I get annoyed reading on and on about Bradley's adventure to find and save his friend, Floris, but I would rather be reading Floris saving herself. Maybe that's just me!Avoid this one, took me forever to finish it. Very disappointing, I expected a lot more from the author with his credentials.