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A review of Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Reviewed By David Carr
Monument 14 is a post-apocalyptic survival story of 14 kids with ages ranging from 8-16. After a series of natural and man-made catastrophes traps a busload of 14 students, inside a super-store in Monument, Colorado. Over the next week, they learn to work together in order to survive poisonous gas with a secret behind it, violent visitors, and their own weaknesses and fears. The book is written as if the main character was telling the main events in his journal, but it switches into current moments in the story and not written after it happened. The main character Dean has a good story to tell about his past that reveals secrets and interesting tidbits of information as the book progresses. Dean is not the only character as the other 13 kids were on the bus with Dean, and they all have their own unique story and character traits to hear. When the bus crashed, the bus driver leaves the kids inside the super store to find help, and that’s when the world starts coming at them.
This book is a thriller, you always want to know what happens next and even after you finish the first the next to get crazier and crazier. Without going into detail, the second book a small group of kids decide to leave including Dean’s brother who ends up being a main character in which the story gets told from his perspective switching off with Dean every chapter. The third book is just hell rising to earth and these kids get put through the worst, but no matter what you won’t be able to stop reading. You come to learn about what caused the catastrophe at some point, what happens to the kids, and what happens to their home town. The writing style of this book is rather unique, and I can’t say I’ve seen it anywhere else as the perspective switches, but it switches fluently, and it keeps the reader hooked and wanting to finish. A good example of this is the romance arc between Dean and one of the other 14 kids, without spoiling anything I found my self biting my nails at the outcome of their survival and the result of how they would make it out together. There are suspenseful encounters, jaw dropping reveals, intense fights, and overseeing all a shared goal to survive just goes to show how people can come together and work to fix things or how everyone can fall apart easily and break.