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    Raiders' Ransom
    Raiders' Ransom
    Raiders' Ransom
    Audiobook9 hours

    Raiders' Ransom

    Written by Emily Diamand

    Narrated by Charlotte Parry and James Clamp

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Emily Diamand's swashbuckling futuristic tale generated quite a buzz in England, winning the Times of London's Children's Fiction Competition. It's the 22nd century and, thanks to climate change, much of the former British Empire rests under the sea. While out fishing one day, young Lilly Melkun witnesses a brazen band of pirates kidnapping the Prime Minister's daughter. With her village blamed for the tragedy, Lilly takes it upon herself to set sail and rescue the young girl, with only her wits and considerable seamanship skills to help her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 26, 2010
    ISBN9781449805098
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    • 4/5
      A fast paced read with lots of action, mystery and unknown.
      The setting was difficult to picture, until it finally dawned on my boys that we were in the future and world technology had been destroyed. (I had to explain this to them. They didn't catch this.)
      Because our family doesn't "game" much of the setting was probably lost to us.

      In spite of all that, the action kept them interested and reading ahead before I could read to them.

      Issues of friendship, loyalty, bravery all came to play as the two main characters had to make hard choices for their next steps.

      We have the sequel already checked from the library ready to read!
    • 3/5
      "Flutland" würde ich für Jugendliche ab 12 Jahen empfehlen. In der Welt kämpfen in einer postapokalyptischen Welt Piraten gegen Engländer und Schotten, wobei nur letztere noch eine Ahnung von der Technologie ("Putern") der alten Welt haben. Die Hauptcharaktere, Emily und Seph, sind selbst noch Jugendliche. Sie eine Fischerin mit Schiffskatze aus England, er Sohn eines Piraten-Clanoberhaupts, der sich gegen seinen Halbbruder beweisen muss. Generell eine irgendwie bezaubernde kleine Geschichte, aber deutlich auf ein jüngeres Zielpublikum zugeschnitten.
    • 5/5
      (I listened to the audio book of this, which employed 2 exceptional voice actors to play the girl and boy lead)This story is set in a post-apocalyptic Britain where floods have devastated the country, infrastructure, and seemingly all technology made after the Victorian days. All in all it was a fun adventure story with humor and sweet characters. The development and differences in cultures of the tribe-like raiders and the poor fishers kept my attention, while the political scheming kept me on my feet. I enjoyed the interactions and point of view narration of the two main kids, and found myself liking both of them.This is not a perfect book, but for later elementary and early middle school students who want to get into science fiction, or at least a different type of future than what the Hunger Games offers, this is a great recommendation.
    • 3/5
      Originally published in the UK as Reavers' Ransom, and then reprinted (also in the UK) as Flood Child, before being released here in the states as Raiders' Ransom, this debut novel from Emily Diamand was the winner of the initial Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition, set up to recognize emerging talent in the field. A dystopian tale set in a future Britain, one bitterly divided between three powers - a greatly weakened, technology-rejecting England, reduced to ten counties after the southern portion of the country was submerged in the waters that rose after the great "Collapse," and much of the north was incorporated into Greater Scotland; the chaotic western tidal marshes (once the coastal counties stretching from Kent to Norfolk) ruled by the fierce pirate Raider clans, descended from the families that fled London, when it was flooded out; and Greater Scotland, the technology-embracing nation to the north, now encompassing current-day Scotland, Wales, and much of northern England - it follows the story of an English fisher-girl named Lilly Melkun, who sets out to save her village from threatened destruction, when raiders kidnap the daughter of the Prime Minister, and treason is suspected; and Zephaniah bar Angel Isling, son of Medwin, the Boss of the Angel Isling Raider clan, who finds himself struggling throughout with the conflicting demands of his conscience, and his sense of loyalty to his family and people. As Lilly and Zeph cross paths, their fates, and the fate of young Alexandra (Lexy) Randall, the English Prime Minister's daughter held captive at Angel Isling, become hopelessly entangled...Raiders' Ransom is a book I've been meaning to read since it first came out (here in the states, at any rate), so I was happy when it was chosen as our May selection over in The Children's Fiction Club to which I belong. It comes as no surprise to discover that its author studied environmental science, and is a committed environmental activist, as the world of the story is one in which the evils of global warming - particularly, the rising sea levels - play an extremely important role. I found the main premise here fascinating, and all too believable - it is not difficult at all to imagine some people rejecting all technology, after a disaster involving a worldwide computer collapse - and I appreciated many of the details of Lilly and Zeph's world, from the familiar but slightly transformed place-names, to the artifacts of the past dug up from old trash dumps and reused. The rare "Harry Potter" volumes, much desired by historians, brought a chuckle! The two main characters were both quite engaging - I did find it a little odd that the dust-jacket flap, and the book descriptions available online, made this sound like Lilly's story, rather than a dual-narrative tale involving two children's perspectives - and I loved Cat, Lilly's lovable Seacat, whose odd prescience, as it concerned the weather, was never fully explained in the story.In sum: I enjoyed the story, was engaged by the characters, and found the world being depicted fascinating. I can't say that Raiders' Ransom grabbed hold of me as strongly as I'd hoped - it took far longer to get through it than I'd expected - but I was involved enough that I wanted to know what happened next, and will undoubtedly track down a copy of the sequel, Flood And Fire.
    • 5/5
      The novel is set about 200 years in the future, end of the 22nd Century into the 23rd Century. Climate change has caused sea levels to rise and is about what happens when a simple girl challenges political corruption and takes on a group of pirates in the process. Emily Diamand is the winner of the first Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition with comparisons being made to JK Rowling. Whether the similarities in success transpires or not, ‘Reavers’ Ransom’ is clearly something special to have outshone the 2000 books submitted for the competition.Taken from a web article, ‘Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and the movie Serenity, who live on the fringes of a civilised space and have become animalistic. Within the show, their existence is officially denied by the alliance, the ruling government of humanity, but they are a harsh reality around the outer planets’ and in the novel, part of this is shown but adventures are also an integral part of the story. In steps Lily. Lily’s grandmother is killed by the Reavers (this is not a plot spoiler – it can be read in any interview or other review on the internet) whilst she is out fishing with her sea cat. The same people have also kidnapped the Prime Minister’s daughter. Armed only with a talking jewel, Lily sets sail for London to release her and save her friend from conscription.Moving at a swift pace for both adults and children, there are a range of devices used within the novel to engage the reader. Cliff hangers keep you turning the pages but also treachery amongst the characters. You never know who will turn out to be the goody or the baddy! My initial criticism is that the ending seemed to go on forever, and spoiled the wonderful writing I had experienced up to that point. It wasn’t a bad ending, just not as good as the rest of the novel. My favourite character was Lilly’s ‘Uncle’ and I expected more to have been made of him. I feel this book has wide appeal to both boys and girls – the relationship between Lilly and Zeph reminded me of Lyra and Will in Philip Pullman’s ‘Subtle Knife’ and in some respects the universality of that novel is similar to this one.A great read and this from a reader who doesn’t like pirate adventures! An adult reader will see the political and environmental messages I think, whilst a younger, less sophisticated reader will enjoy the story for its adventure and excitement.