{"id":306,"date":"2011-05-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2013-07-08T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:21:02","slug":"green-angel-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Green Angel, by Alice Hoffmann (book review) – past happiness, ashes today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>And the world as you know it ends.<\/p>\n

What would you do if everyone, everything was taken from you? How could you cope<\/a>, not yet 16, the ash falling, falling, falling… The end of Days? Prophecy coming to pass? Invasion?<\/p>\n

This slim volume holds much sadness, many fears<\/a>, and a fragment of hope as a young woman tries to go on living after unimaginable disaster.<\/p>\n

Followed by Green Witch<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 tomorrow’s featured book.
\n*kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Green Angel \/ by Alice Hoffman; illustrated by Matt Mahurin. Scholastic, 2003. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/strong>: Black ashes fill the sky, as the City across the river burns. Green thought it wasn\u2019t fair that she had to stay in the garden while her little sister and parents took their produce to the market across the bridge. Soon she would be 16 and could move to the city if she wanted to. She was always shy around other people while her sister, Aurora, glowed with happiness. But fire rained down on the City, burned the bridge, and consumed her family.<\/p>\n

Green doesn\u2019t need her ember-burnt eyes to see how the ashes kill the birds, blanket the garden, and smother the plants. She tattoos herself with each memory of loss, hacks off her hair, and armors herself against the world in her father\u2019s coat sewn over with thorns, renaming herself Ash.<\/p>\n

Food becomes scarce, and looters try to take over the farm. Hearing more than seeing, Ash gets through one day, then the next, with her sister\u2019s dog as companion.<\/p>\n

Will the sun never shine again?
\nWhy was the City attacked?
\nWill this world remain ashes and death forever, or will it be green again someday?<\/p>\n

This short lyrical tale traces Ash’s despair and Green’s hope. Next in the series is Green Witch<\/i>. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the world as you know it ends. What would you do if everyone, everything was taken from you? How could you cope, not yet 16, the ash falling, falling, falling… The end of Days? Prophecy coming to pass? Invasion? This slim volume holds much sadness, many fears, and a fragment of hope as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19,68,41],"tags":[90,22,7,5,37,16,18,49,21,35,33,3,53,8,59],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-future","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-memories","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}