The characters default to white, though there’s disability representation in the form of characters with Type I diabetes.įor readers thirsting for a fresh survival story.Įven robot cats have a mind of their own.Īll 12-year-old Canadian Lacey Chu’s ever wanted was to become a companioneer like her idol, Monica Chan, co-founder of the largest tech firm in North America, Moncha Corp., and mastermind behind the baku.
The story focuses on the themes of the kids’ journey, and while the ending provides hope, readers looking for answers to the blackout will be disappointed. Another conflict source is Stew’s defeatist behavior, which is at odds with John’s descriptions of him-and, in a twist, is revealed to have a very good cause. Thankfully, these latter are given conflicting motives, which increases tension. Along the journey, they face general hardships of desert hiking with insufficient water as well as human threats. They encounter a sister-brother duo, Cleverly and Will, and-even though John knows that they barely have the supplies to make the three-day, 96-mile titular journey to salvation-the brothers decide allowing the other kids to join is what is right to do. In the opening sequence, readers meet the brothers as they lower themselves to collecting toilet water to drink, as they were recently robbed of their father’s entire (extensive) supply stash.
Days pass and it doesn’t let up what little news they hear implies a massive scale. While their preparation-obsessed father’s out of state on a business trip, leaving 13-year-old John and 11-year-old Stew under the loose supervision of their neighbors, a complete blackout hits. Brothers undertake a desperate desert journey during a long-term power outage.
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