I'm reading, Where I Live (The Ellie Chronicles) By John Mardsen. Its the first book of the three in the Ellie Chronicles and the 8th book overall out of the 10 books, (The series before the Ellie Chronicles was the Tomorrow series.)
Anyways the Tomorrow series (Well the first book, Tomorrow when the war began) revolves around a group of teenagers (in Australia) who go into the bush in search for a place called Hell (I series of treacherous bush and cliff landscape) which was said to be the home of "The Hermit" ( A man who escaped to Hell after being convicted of killing his wife and son in 1800's or the 1900's somewhere around there lol). They spend there time there for commemoration day (which i don't know why John called it that because its Australia Day, probably something legal wise is the reason why he called it that) and they camp out and have fun. Over the time being Australia is invaded by a unknown country (and there identity is not revealed, i kind of thought they were like middle east terrorists or something but that's probably just because of the war that's going on now) while they are happily safe in Hell. They soon realize that everything is wrong and set out to find out whats wrong, only to find out that they are invaded and now have to run for safety in the darkness to evade from being caught (or as later in the book, killed). Its funny how once they saw Hell as a death hole and now believe it to be there only safe sanctuary. Anyways, they discover a lot about themselves (and quite of lot of it is not what they hoped to ever find in themselves) and soon discover the true meanings of despair and loss. But that doesn't stop the band of brave heroes Ellie and her friends have to become to not just bring this war to an end and bring justice to those they have lost but to fight for freedom and well just to be safely home and living there normal live (which they soon discover that they will never live a normal life again, well close enough to normal but never really).
Well that's my outtake on the series and this is actual blurb:
Ellie and her friends leave home one quiet morning, wave goodbye to their parents, and head up into the hills to camp for a while; seven teenagers filling in time during school holidays.
The world is about to change forever. Their lives will never be the same again.
Would you fight? Would you give up everything? Would you sacrifice even life itself?
Tomorrow, when the war began asks the biggest questions you will ever have to answer.
Lol sounds kinda doom day stuff, but its wonderfully written and of course its been named 'The best series for Australian teens of all time'
And i find it funny that we don't get help from America, and that are only support we get are from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, well we get support in the end but we get more from Sweden and Japan to my surprise.
Anyways like i said before I'm reading the First of the Ellie Chronicles, Where I live and I thought it was going to be a good happy first half of the book then bam war again, But damn i never thought i could be so wrong. Just one chapter and its all down hill from there.
And also I've seen people talking about The Hunger Games, and I checked it out on Amazon and it looks really good, so I'm going to buy that and read it as well.
Loving it! I don't know who my favorite is yet. I want them all.... But poor Z he breaks my heart!!