Future is a blank sheet of paper

“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”

I have to admit that this book was really moving, and at the same time so ordinary in their simplicity. Very human characters, perhaps a little idealized, but real. Each of us could certainly identify with one of them in some way.

This part of the book even more presents moral dilemmas of young people in the face of war, all the hard decisions that they have to take, it’s about fear, about courage. In the hearts of these young people uncertainty arises, which in the face of war and the ensuing death and killing, is good and what is bad, how to behave, how to be a hero, and don’t lose at the same time humanity and do the right thing. Simultaneously they are struggling with their youth, hormones, emotions, experiencing their first, not perfect, but clumsy and uncertain sexual contact (Yes, young people having sex too! Which missing in many books about young people, where they spend a lot of nights together, snuggling and look each other in the eyes. I’m not saying that from books for young people doing porn, but let's be realistic, young people also love each other and also comes to sexual relations, and not only for kisses).

There are a couple of nonsense in this book, sometimes strikes amazing intelligence of these young people, seems to that they know everything about everything. A little irritating partisan actions carried out by them, the headquarters of foreign armed forces so poorly guarded. I hope that this will not happen in the next parts, that this frail group of people will save the whole Australia. But I think that their actions may finally lead to the creation some larger resistance movement, if it doesn’t there yet.

Overall, I think it is really worth to know this story.


9/10