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On her seventh birthday, Pauline rode across the lawns on her street followed by her best friend Henry, he on the blue wooden horse, she on the red. On the seventh lawn at the top of the street, she collapsed, becoming a sudden victim of the polio outbreak of the summer of 1954. Five years later, when In the Clear begins, she has survived, but paid a heavy price. A brace on her left leg allows her to walk, but she confines herself to her house, humiliated at the notion of being seen. Terrified by what Pauline has already suffered, her mother watches over her, forbidding her to play hockey on the ice rink her father has created in the backyard. In the Clear alternates, chapter by chapter, between Pauline's horror-filled year in the hospital five years earlier and her struggles to adapt in the present of 1959 and 1960. At the end of the book, her triumphs in past and present come together and she is able to move forward with new friendships, a renewed bond with her mother and, most important, a new faith in herself.
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Jimmy Bob
reviewed In the Clear on November 18, 2008 In the Clear
First book for this readathon! I might be posting quite a lot of reviews over the next twenty-four hours, just as a heads up. If that bothers you, well, it's a one-off!
Anyway, The Fall was a very short, easy read to start off with. Like all of Garth Nix's books, it's very easy to get into. I'd say this is aimed at a younger age than the rest of his books -- it's quite simplistic in many ways -- but I enjoyed the world-building anyway. The characters are promising, though there isn't much to them yet. That's the main problem, really, with this: there isn't much to it yet. I'm sure that more will build up over the course of the six books, and I'm intrigued by the world we see glimpses of, but there's not enough to lay hold of yet.
It ends very abruptly, and makes me wonder if the ends of the books are all going to be quite arbitrary. That could get a little irritating.
Still. Intriguing world! Awesome female characters -- with female-led societies in the background, too, with an Empress in the Castle and an older woman, the Crone, leading the people of the ice! Promising.
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