SuitabookThe Keepers of the Flame (Fire-Us, #02)
Jennifer L. Armstrong
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in at the first signs of danger. You could pause to discuss what makes the mall appealing to the children and what leaves them unsure.
- Themes
- Trust and dependence: The children meet adult survivors after years without seeing grown-ups, but the adults do not seem as friendly as they first appear. The encounter creates tension around whether the children can rely on these adults; the adults’ motives and the story’s judgement of them are unclear.
- Building a family after catastrophe: The surviving children have forged a new family and life together while travelling in search of answers. The children’s shared life is central to the premise, but the details of their relationships and how the story evaluates them are not given.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes mass death from a plague and a threatening encounter with adults. The level of detail, violence and intensity in these scenes is not established.