School has become a prison. No one knows why. There's no way to stop it.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Aside from Camp-Turn-Around and the ending, "After" was a great book:
Before I praise After, I will admit that I did have two issues with the book. The first was that you never learn exactly WHAT happens at Camp Turn-a-round, which is where they send the "bad" kids that won't conform. I mean there are some clues, but I would have liked it if we had been able to see first hand what goes down there. I also didn't like the ending because it felt like a cliffhanger. I wanted to know what happened to the protagonist and his family. It seemed like there should have been either an... more info
A book I hate to like...:
I LOVE the premise of this book. The idea of the school lock-down, the loss of freedoms, and kids getting sent to "prison camps". The writing left something to be desired. I've read better young adult fiction. I felt let down by how the story was written, It could have had so much more to it, and so much more "meat" to the story. There was an implied relationship between Tom and his dad, but Tom didn't trust his dad at all to talk to him. I couldn't understand this, especially when his dad would constantly... more info
I just don't understand the positive reviews!:
I saw the rave reviews and I read this book expecting to really enjoy it...but I didn't. I hated it. I really tried to enjoy it, but I found it SO UNREALISTIC and then BORING in between the unrealistic parts that it was all I could do to finish it.
Didn't anyone wonder where they found all these willing adults to put this plan into action and then to actually kill all these kids? What was the purpose of these killings (if you wear an AIDS ribbon you are a menace to society?)and shutting down the... more info
"WHEN THE RULES CHANGE, WATCH FREEDOMS OOZE OUT THE CRACKS*:
Better to live one's years in the pages of a young adult novel than to feel compression repeatedly build in the chest - - "after" being backed into a corner with the loss of inalienable rights to threatening authority. The students of Central High (time unknown; place identified only as west of Boston) experience a menacing domino effect of toppled privileges in "AFTER" - the first Y.A. novel by Francine Prose. A student massacre has taken place fifty miles away and beefed-up security is accompanied by... more info
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