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Title	:	The Always War
Author	:	Margaret Peterson Haddix
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 15th 2011 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (first published November 1st 2011)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Dystopia. Young Adult. Fiction. War

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Read Ender's Game or The Virtual War instead.

Advisory:
This book would definitely be rated no higher than PG, possibly G. There are no language or sex issues. And despite the title, there's no violence either.

Review:

I love a good dystopian novel. Give me a protagonist ready to break through the drab, gray malaise of her life and defy a tyrannical government and I'm usually hooked. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of those times. Especially given the current state of our own society - groping TSA agents, inane terror alerts, etc. - I was excited to read a story about a society governed by the constant fear of enemy attack and mandated vigilance. Haddix does manage to capture the malaise, describing a people broken down by war weariness. Many of the scenes are, however, a little too unbelievable. To the extent that there are any adults in the story, they are unrealistically incompetent. The child protagonists are, on the other hand, far too sophisticated. Tessa and Gideon are, at best, high school aged and Dek is viewed by them as a mere child. Yet these three are much more intelligent and capable than any of the adults they encounter. There is simply no satisfactory explanation for why this should be the case. There are really no adults in the society who were as capable as the children of finding out the truth?

The characters don't really grow throughout the book either. Tessa's self-confidence does grow by the end as she begins to trust her own knowledge and abilities, but Gideon and Dek don't really grow much at all. Granted, the story occurs over a short period of time, but there just isn't a whole lot of depth to those characters.

According to the publisher's website, The Always War is aimed at those 7th grade and up. I think they've got that backwards. It should be 7th grade and below. There's nothing objectionable for younger readers and I think older readers would not find the plot credible. This could be a decent dystopian for upper elementary/ lower middle grade readers. It's similar to The Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, though it's more tame than those books. But I would definitely choose those titles over The Always War. I'll give it three turntables. I'd rate it lower for myself, but since it's geared for a younger audience, I think it's decent for that age group.

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ISBN:	0689873808
Edition Language:	English

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Teas Stifling is a 15 year old girl living in a world of fighting, despair, and pain. They are In a middle of the war that is lasting a long time. Gideon is a young pilot for the army at the time, and he was going to receive a medal of courage. But when he is up in the stage about to receive it, he says that he is a coward and that he does not deserve it. Then Tessa sneaks into Gideon room, and then Gideon confesses that he killed 2000 innocent people in his last operation, and that really gets

Um.Dear Ms. Haddix,Definitely NOT up to usual standards. 1. Underdeveloped plot. As with Haddix's many other novels, this had a very solid premise. The development of it, however, never really came to fruition. That really surprised me.2. Gideon. I hated Gideon. Not only is the the whiniest ex-military ANYTHING since the young Luke Skywalker, but his asinine insistence on surrendering to NO ONE got really old really fast.Dude. There's no one there. Put your hands down, you idiot.3. Tessa. Is

Read Ender's Game or The Virtual War instead.Advisory:This book would definitely be rated no higher than PG, possibly G. There are no language or sex issues. And despite the title, there's no violence either.Review:I love a good dystopian novel. Give me a protagonist ready to break through the drab, gray malaise of her life and defy a tyrannical government and I'm usually hooked. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of those times. Especially given the current state of our own society - groping TSA

Originally Finished on January 25th, 2012. Rating: 5 stars out of 5.Although I wouldnt give it the same 5 stars I did when I first visited in 2012, I definitely enjoyed this one. It has this fantastic, fast-paced feel from the very beginning, and, even though there isnt a lot of, shooting and fighting or anything like that, the feeling of that kind of intense action carries through from beginning to end.My only complaint is that the ending felt a little rushed and weird. Its hard to explain

i thought it was alright,the book way by way too fast.i didnt really know what time they were in.i mean time as in past,present,future,.i wouldnt reccomend this book for people who really like fast pace action books.it got boring through the book.as soon as there was an action part,it would slow down alot.but it was a quick and alright book.to make the time pass.

HNNNNNGGGGGI wanted to love this so much.Okay, I didnt DISLIKE it, but it just wasnt anything special. It just felt like I had read this story a million times (main protagonist whos basically useless, absent parents, etc.) and I saw the plot twist coming from a mile away.That being said, there were some original things in the book, that you dont see in typical YA dystopian novels:1) NO LOVE TRIANGLE HALLELUJAH2) The main protagonist didnt end up with the love interest at the end. (It did hint at

The always war was a good book I think that the book was good because there were a lot of interesting things and surprising events happing in the book. In the book, Gideon is getting an award for courage because he was in a war and the people's lives form bad people. But he thinks that he doesn't deserve that medal because he killed people that had a life. But those people that he killed was putting them in danger. He thinks that he shouldn't get an award for killing people that had a life to