This is another book I read because of signing up as an Usborne consultant. My first thought on learning Luke moves to Phoenix was Phoenix Arizona but this book is from Australia...the author is from there, it is set there, was published there. It was interesting because there were a couple words I'm not familiar with that must be Australian words. It talked about seeing kangaroos...so weird to me! But the Australian aspect was fun.
It starts off by telling us Luke's parents are recently divorced and his mom takes a job in this middle of nowhere new town called Phoenix. They arrive and find out there are no cars, (everyone rides bikes instead) the phone service is down, and the internet doesn't work. Luke quickly feels trapped and isolated and everything about the town seems off somehow.
He makes a couple friends and receives a strange message that the world is ending in 100 days for everyone outside of Phoenix. This book is mostly about their trying to figure out if this message is for real and once they decide that it is they want to get outside the town and warn someone or try to get some help. It was a great suspenseful read. There were two violent scenes in the book that I'm not sure I would want my younger kids to read...I kind of skimmed over them since I don't like violence. I don't think it was too awful, but I wouldn't let kids younger than 12ish read it. I thoroughly enjoyed it though and can't wait for the next one!
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