*SUPER SUPREME ULTRA POOPY SPOILER ALERT*
DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Yes. It's that serious.
So for those who have read the aforementioned book and would like to read our opinions on pretty much every chapter, please continue to read and feel free to tell us how you felt as well. We're gonna be doing every two chapters.. These posts are going to be chock full of spoiler alerts (hence the title) but we only plan on doing this sort of thing for this series. So enjoy, fellow slip kids.
TAYLOR'S TAKE!!!
Prologue and Chapter 1:
Prologue:
The book opens by introducing the white noise, which in my head, I picture being like the sound that only dogs can hear, but for kids. Ruby describes the sound in excruciating detail, almost to the point that I want to smack my head against the wall just to get rid if what I think white noise could sound like. But when I managed to get past the sound I imagined, I learn that it is used to subdue those who are in this jail of some sort. And while most people are only effected for a few minutes, Ruby (the main character. My bad. Forgot to mention.) can be rendered senseless for hours at a time just by hearing this sound. It's real.
This sound is used as punishment, but Ruby doesn't understand why they are being punished. Since nobody has done anything wrong.
This prologue also introduces the Psi Special Forces Officers. (or as I like to call them, the big fat meanies of the story.) They're only mentioned in one sentence, but we can tell that nobody likes them.
So of course you expect more, but unfortunately, this is a prologue. And like all prologues, it's short. But you don't realize it at first but then you turn the page and see
Chapter 1:
And your like "Son of a..." Then you read the first sentence.
And you don't speak another word. Because as your reading, you think back and your like 'Y'all got children dying in the beginning? Oh this is real.'
So in this chapter, we get introduced to IAAN, also known as Everhearts Disease. ( it's also known as Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration. Which is just doing way too much if you ask me.) At the time at which this chapter takes place, Ruby is only nine, and if a deadly disease starts killing off children in anyone's neighborhood nobody's really gonna be like "Hey let's tell the children!" So she doesn't learn any thing about the disease until almost half of her fourth grade class has died. Then she finds the list of symptoms her teacher has sent home hidden by her mother in the kitchen.
Put simply, she gets pretty scared.
Thank God for Grandmas, because just a few days later, Ruby gets reassured by her own that she'll be fine, and to tell her parents if she doesn't feel well.
To bad grandma couldn't stop it from becoming a national epidemic. Because of course, once the president addresses it and goes all "we're working in a solution that will better the people" we all know that there's way more to this than dying children.
Writers Note! 😜
Heyyyyy guys! It's taylor. So this is my first blog on The Darkest Minds, stay tuned for Jeneas. We will be doing super spoilers on this entire book and we figure well be done around when the second book comes out so we can roll right into that one. Let us know if you like our writing!! Bye!!!!
Love, Taylor.
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