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Review of Nation by Terry Patchett

Review of Nation by Terry Pattchett


Short review- It must be one of the best book I had read so far! Emotional, smart, funny, romanic and so very brilliant! Must read! 5/5

Longer review
The Nation started off with Mau the 15 years old boy who had gone to the boy island to leave his boy soul behind and return to his Nation to receive his Man soul. Most culture have some sort of coming of age ritual in which the boy became a boy, and in Singapore we call this ritual “National Service” in which boys who was over 18 years old must serve under the army for 2 years and so I can understand what it is like to be like Mau, who had to prove himself by performing this ritual. And like most boys, we are afraid of this ritual as we are unsure of what to do and when to do it. Unlike most boys who are able to return home after their ritual, Mua’s island was strike by a huge tsunami wave that had engulfed his own island. The stage is set for Mua to survive and somehow find meaning to continue to live on this post-apocalyptic world where all his family, friends and anyone that he know of had being killed.

Nation is a book that know how to push the correct emotion button of anyone who read it as Terry Pratchett did a great job on expressing the despair and hopelessness that Mua felt when he return to his ruin island. And no one can be untouched by how Mua send his people off to the dark water not because he must but because he is the only one who can.

Even though the story start in a extremely depressing way, it slowly pick up when Mua found Daphne who was trap on the island when the tsunami hit her ship and killing everyone on board and flung her ship onto the island. And as the story processed, Mua and Daphne developed a relationship that is both charming and romantic as one depend on another for sanity and comfort in this chaotic world where everything does not sense any more.

And as the story continence on, more characters started to appear, Pilu the story teller, Milo the strong silence man, Ataba the priest and others, each adding more to the story making it more human and more emotional as each have a story to tell and what a great story it was.

The only thing I had to complain is the villains, seem that they don’t have a really deep character and you don’t really feel like they should get kill but most likely you wont notice it.

Conclusion
It must be one of the best books I had read so far! Emotional, smart, funny, romantic and so very brilliant! Must read! 5/5

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