{"id":3684,"date":"2015-05-04T14:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:33:14","slug":"monument-14-series-by-emmy-laybourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Monument 14 [series] by Emmy Laybourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3720\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1496593\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3720\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Monument-14-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Monument 14\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Monument-14-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Monument-14.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think the thing I liked most about this series was just how different it was.\u00a0 I have been reading a lot of dystopian fiction over the course of the last few years, and much of it seems to be interchangeable.\u00a0 Sure, the plots involve slightly different situations and the characters and places have different names. \u00a0But, though I enjoyed reading\/listening to them all, it was pretty telling when my tween son literally asked me, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t we already listen to this book?&#8221; \u00a0Although this series could be compared to other apocalyptic stories &#8212; like <a title=\"the dead &amp; the gone\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/24\/the-dead-the-gone-tdtg-by-susan-beth-pfeffer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the dead &amp; the gone<\/em><\/a> and <a title=\"No Safety in Numbers\" href=\"https:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/06\/no-safety-in-numbers-by-dayna-lorentz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>No Safety in Numbers<\/em><\/a> &#8212; it didn&#8217;t feel like a re-run. \u00a0The only problem I had with this book was that it seemed all too plausible.\u00a0 It really creeped me out to read about a series of natural disasters followed by a leak of chemical warfare compounds, with society as we know it falling apart.\u00a0 Very interesting story&#8230; but kinda scary if you&#8217;re known as &#8220;worst case scenario girl&#8221; and actually start worrying about things like this happening in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the thing I liked most about this series was just how different it was.\u00a0 I have been reading a lot of dystopian fiction over the course of the last few years, and much of it seems to be interchangeable.\u00a0 Sure, the plots involve slightly different situations and the characters and places have different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monument 14 [series] by Emmy Laybourne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}