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2016 | Fiction & Poetry

A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins...There is no warning. No chance to prepare. The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures into this unrecognisable world. Alongside green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb, Adrien sets out to find his wife and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

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Ali Shaw
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ISBN 9781408862308
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Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated

Mar 15, 2018  
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<i><b>There is no warning. No chance to prepare. The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest.</b></i>

When Adrien wakes to the thundering of trees coming up from the earth and destroying his home, he has no idea what happening, but neither does anybody else. Confused, scared and afraid, Adrien sets out to find some answers, primarily <i>is his wife, in Ireland, still alive?</i> On his journey he comes across nature lover Hannah and her teenage son Seb who group together to tackle what the forest holds.

The reviews plastered all over this book are what got me really excited about picking this up, talking about Hitchcock, Tarantino and McCarthy’s book <i>The Road</i> (which I haven’t read yet but am really looking forward to picking up), all appealed to me so much that I put Room down and bought this one instead (or, rather, my boyfriend bought it)...

Read my full review here: https://bookbumzuky.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/the-trees-by-ali-shaw/
  
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Mayhawke (97 KP) rated

Feb 13, 2018  
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The Trees
Ali Shaw | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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Disappointing
I was drawn to this book first by the cover and then by the intriguing premise of the world turning into a forest over-night. It seemed to offer considerable potential and a story that was different to anything else I have read, and in that last respect, at least, it lived up to expectations. There I'm afraid the potential came to rest.

There are books in which the writing and the pace seem pick you up and to whisk you along at a breath-taking rate; that can have you hanging onto the edge of your seat; where you have to exert an iron cast self-control not to glance at the pages ahead in your urgent need to find out what is going to happen. There are books that envelope you, enrapture you and have you reading so hard that you get a head ache. And you feel happy about it. This is not one of them.

The book is divided into four parts and it is my sad duty to inform you that the first three and a half represent some of the stodgiest reading matter I have ever encountered. It was a wade through molasses. The characters fail to really lift off the page, whilst they are (mostly representative) of normal people we all know - as is the intention - and they are well formed and individual they just seem to lack any substance. They feel like detailed but two-dimensional pencil sketches rather than actual people.

The story itself is interesting and largely unpredictable, which is what one hopes for but that is the very best that can be said for it. It drags out and crawls along until you finally reach the second section of Part IV, when things pick up somewhat only to lead to what feels - after the novelty of such an original plot - to a rather lame and anti-climactic conclusion.

So to sum up: It's an OK read, I imagine some people will love it, but by and large I probably could have used my time better to re-read The Night watch for the fifteenth time.