I Feel Like the Morning Star

by Gregory Maguire

Three teenagers in a post-holocaust survival colony find that their shelter has become a prison and decide to break out.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic

275 pages, Library Binding

First published April 1, 1989

About the author

Gregory Maguire is an American author, whose novels are revisionist retellings of children's stories (such as L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into Wicked). He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University, and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. He was a professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979-1985. In 1987 he co-founded Children's Literature New England (a non-profit educational charity).

Maguire has served as artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Hambidge Center. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Jen (The Jenerator) · Rating 2 out of 5]

These early Maguire books are just weird! This one was actually one of the better ones in my opinion because at least it kept my interest a little. Geez!

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really really love Gregory Maguire, and this is one of his young reader books that I read because I am working on reading everything by him. This is pretty good, although it's so similar in so many ways to The Giver that I don't know what to think about that. Was it an homage? Did he just like the idea and make up his own version? Anyway, the characters are interesting and multi-faceted, and show unexpected strengths as well as weaknesses. I had to read the last few paragraphs twice, and then really appreciated the beauty expressed in them. The book is about a closed society deep underground in which all the residents are controlled by a group of elders and a tea-like drink that fuzzies up their minds real well. And then a group of kids decides to break out, and resistance is met, dangers faced, hearst changed, etc, etc. I like Gregory Maguire, but this is not my favorite book by him.

[Larry Harty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good.....slow page turner in that I really wanted to know how things came out but needed it to hurry along. Had a lot of logistical questions along the way and perhaps was not interpreting things the way I should have. On to read another GM book though as I am very curious......

[Cheryl]

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[Kristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

4. Wonderfully enjoyable. The author could have been more descriptive about the place, but it was still good.