SuitabookDelete
Jeff Povey
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside a conversation about suspense and loss, especially if scenes involving threatened or dying characters may feel intense. Discuss whether the characters’ humour and friendships change how the danger feels.
- Themes
- Friendship under pressure: The characters’ bonds help hold the group together, while missing companions, casualties and tested friendships raise the emotional stakes. Friendship is presented as valuable and important to the group’s survival and emotional life.
- Identity and trust: The young people encounter Others: doubles with superpowers who occupy the same alternate world and appear hostile. The premise creates a sustained question about whether similarity, difference or power should determine trust.
- Romantic choice: Rev faces a dilemma involving two versions of Johnson, including one with superpowers and a prior bond with the other Rev. The situation places romantic choice alongside questions of identity and loyalty, but its meaning remains unresolved.
- Worth knowing
- The book is also described as more sombre and desperate than its predecessor.