Rootless Audiobook

" "Rootless" is another young adult book about an ecologically broken future, however the twist on how the world is broken and possible was to survive in it are completely originally. There are no animals, there are no trees, and there are no plants other than GenTech's corn. Everyone lives off of GenTech's corn. Nothing else can survive the harsh environment. Without trees, there is nothing to block the wind, find shade from the sun, or help keep topsoil from blowing away. The only creatures other than humans are the locus. GenTech found a way to twist their corn's DNA so it can survive the locus, so the locus survive by eating the last food source: humans. Meet Banyan, he is a 17 year old tree builder just looking to make it through another day. Banyan uses scrap metal from a dead world to make his trees. His world is changed by stories that somewhere there are still real trees. This is a book about a broken world and broken people. The language is pretty clean but this is a harsh world and not everyone survives. It is the first title in a new series. "

" Agh. I wanted to like it, with the main character being a teenager who builds trees out of scrap metal for the evil rich people in the dystopia and all, but I just couldn't. I kept dreading going back to it, so after a week or so I finally gave up, even though I only had about 40 pages to go. "

" So good! I haven't read anything like this book before. It's so original and exciting and surprising at every corner. There's so much going on and it's really unpredictable. As soon as I think I know what's going to happen I'm proven wrong and I loved that about this book. It was completely refreshing to read, like it didn't follow any particular recipe that so many books follow. Excellent. I'm looking forward to the next book! Great job to Chris Howard for such brilliant writing. "

" I really enjoyed this book! Imaginitive, exciting, spooky... The characters are mostly likeable (except when they aren't supposed to be!), and the ecologically-bankrupt future world Chris creates is believeable. As a young-adult fiction goes, I think this would've been a banned book in my own adolescence ... a compliment to it's edginess & its relavence to young people. I don't know many 7th graders, but I do know one, and he's getting this book for Christmas! "

" Great story full of action and adventure. Full review to come! "

" So much recent dystopian fiction has been with a female lead character, it was nice to have a male lead for a change "

" Entertaining story about a world without trees..... "

" I can't decide... there was a part which I really didn't like but the 95% of this book was perfect. I really don't know what to write now. "

" I really did enjoy reading this book. The book ends on a cliff hanger leaves you wanting the next to come as soon as possible "

" definitely worth reading. really makes you look at trees afterwards... and locusts! "

" Anna says: I adored this post-apocalyptic novel in which locusts are eating all living things. The plot twists and turns, and there is a general lack of that teenage angst factor. Absolutely five stars. "