#Book & #Movie #Review of How I Live Now by @megrosoff #Thanksto @randomhousekids

This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy.

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she’s never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, system fail. As they grow more isolated, the farm becomes a kind of Eden, with no rules. Until the war arrives in their midst.
          Daisy’s is a war story, a survival story, a love story—all told in the voice of a subversive and witty teenager. This book crackles with anxiety and with lust. It’s a stunning and unforgettable first novel that captures the essence of the age of terrorism: how we live now.

Meg Rosoff

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Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, educated at Harvard and St Martin's College of Art, and worked in New York City for ten years before moving to London permanently in 1989. She worked in publishing, politics, PR and advertising until 2004, when she wrote her first novel, How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Children's fiction prize (UK), Michael L Printz prize (US), the Die Zeit children's book of the year (Germany) and was shortlisted for the Orange first novel award. Her second novel, Just in Case, won the 2007 Carnegie Medal. Meg's latest book is The Bride's Farewell. She lives in London with her husband, daughter and two very hairy dogs.

This one was very odd to start out.  I was about half way through this when I found out that Netflix had the movie on its list.  So I put the book down and started watching the movie. And I have to say that I liked the book better.  I know who didn't see that one coming.  Ok so this book has to do with this girl named Daisy who gets shipped off to live with her cousins because her step mom doesn't like her and her dad doesn't know how to tell the witch to get a life.  (my words not hers)  Ok so she goes from NY to England to being thrown into a war.  There is love in unexpected places (no triangle)  I did love that the movie switched the two boys.  So Edmond is now the 16 year old and Isaac is the 14 year old.  I didn't like that the movie killed someone off.

This book is a great survival story.  As well as a coming of age.  Daisy in the book vs the movie I think that the movie did a better job.  She was more of an angry teen which I think she should have been because, of her situation.  The book I think she was just a little to nice/tame.

I did love the love story and the ending of both the movie and the book.  It was a very interesting turn of events.  I also love that it seems that the boys had a kind of psychic intuition which was more talked about in the book vs. the movie.  But it was done so well that it worked event better.

I love these books and movies that make them seem like you could really see this happening. That having these powers etc.  could be real.

I think this one could have been a little bit longer and been an even better book.  But all in all I really did enjoy both the book and the movie.

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